“We live in a surveillance state founded on a partnership between government and the technology industry.”— Law Professor Avidan Y. Cover In this age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are no private lives: everything is public. Surveillance cameras mounted on utility...
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HOAX: Florida Police Dept. Releases Fake Video of Officer ‘Almost Dying’ From Touching Fentanyl (With Gloves)
by Matt Agorist | Dec 28, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In case you've been completely in the dark for the last decade, you've likely noticed that the United States is currently in the midst of an opioid crisis. This crisis knows no demographic, no race, no gender, no age limit, and no occupation—it hits them all. Due to...
The U.S. Government Is Persecuting America’s Veterans
by John Whitehead | Nov 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
“For soldiers … coming home is more lethal than being in combat.”- Brené Brown, research professor at the University of Houston The U.S. government is still waging war on America’s military veterans. Especially veterans who exercise their First Amendment right to...
Innocent Mother Shot and Killed in Breonna Taylor-esque Police Raid
by Matt Agorist | Aug 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On the night Camden County Sheriff's deputies killed her, Latoya James, an innocent mother, had committed no crime, had harmed no one, and was not wanted by police. These facts are irrelevant, however, as the police state—when carrying out its vile and destructive war...
There Are Now More Armed Bureaucrats Than There Are U.S. Marines
by John Whitehead | Aug 23, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison The IRS has stockpiled 4,500 guns and five million rounds of ammunition in recent years, including 621 shotguns, 539 long-barrel rifles and 15...
Cops Throw Man Suffering Diabetic Shock in Jail, Watch Him Die
by Matt Agorist | Aug 9, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
When he was arrested in February of this year, Gilbert Gil, 67, had committed no crime and had harmed no one. Sadly, however, his innocence offered no protection from the pernicious abuse of the California police state. The nightmare for the Gil family began when a...
A Right-Wing Critique of the Police State – Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
by Keith Knight | Jul 22, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/7S19xsdp074 The next step in the development of what would later become anarcho-capitalism was the radical one taken by Gustave de Molinari, in his essay “The Private Production of Security.” Molinari asked if the production of defense services, which...
The Government’s Killswitch For Your Car, and Your Freedom
by John Whitehead | Feb 16, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
“A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.”—Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle If we haven’t learned by now, we should beware of anything the government insists is for our own good. Take the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Investment and...
COI #231: Police Militarization and Night Raids
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 13, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #231 Patrick MacFarlane - host of Liberty Weekly - joins Kyle Anzalone to discuss the American police state. Pat breaks down two recent night raids that resulted in young men being killed. The police woke the men in the middle of the night, saw guns, and...
WATCH: Dozens of NYPD Remove Child Without Vaccine Passport from Restaurant
by Matt Agorist | Dec 29, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As TFTP reported, earlier this month, New York mayor Bill de Blasio expanded the already-tyrannical “Key to NYC” program which imposed a vaccination mandate for workers and customers at indoor dining, fitness, entertainment and performance venues. Anyone who wished to...
Australia’s History of Benevolent Fascism
by Kym Robinson | Dec 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
You can read Part I of this essay, published in September 2021, here. Australia has had a history of complicated relationships between the governments that ruled over its vast sunburned lands and the individual citizens subject to such rule. The states and territories...
Trial Begins For Female Cop Who Shot Minneosta Man, While Claiming To Reach for Taser
by Matt Agorist | Dec 1, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Just miles from where George Floyd took his last breaths on Earth as they were squeezed from his body by officer Derek Chauvin, Daunte Wright was targeted by police over an alleged expired tag. Because the American police state is a violent behemoth which knows no...
Don’t Draft Women (Or Men Either)
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
As in many previous years, this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is chock-full of terrible legislation slyly inserted for the purposes of concealing matters from the public. Both parties have been long guilty of this, with both groups using the NDAA to...
The Exchange: A Citizen and a State Agent in Victoria, Australia
by Kym Robinson | Oct 5, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Footage of police violence and the tantrums of the mob during the recent lockdown protests, not just in the Australian state of Victoria but the world over, depict a division between the powerful armed professionals of the government and the angry rage from some parts...
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Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
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