Scott talks to Matt Agorist about police violence in America. Agorist is adamant that although police brutality is disproportionately a problem in black communities, this is an issue that affects us all, and Americans should be unified in opposition to growing police...
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If You Care About Ashli Babbitt, You Should Care About George Floyd
by Matt Agorist | Jan 12, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As she breached multiple doors in the U.S. Capitol, while accompanied by dozens of other rioters, Ashli Babbitt’s last moments alive were spent attempting to break into a heavily barricaded area, climbing through a window before being shot in the chest by a police...

How to Build a Gun Club: A Guide to Organizing and Starting Your Own Local Gun Club
by Sam Jacobs | Jan 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
There’s never a bad time to start a gun club, but there are maybe better times than others.

Your Permanent Record: Police Are Labeling Children With Bad Grades as “Potential Criminals”
by Matt Agorist | Jan 3, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In the ostensible land of the free, we are told that all people are presumed innocent until proven guilty by their peers. To those who’ve been paying attention however, we know that “innocent until proven guilty” is a farce into today’s police state. If you doubt this...

Libertarian Messaging For 2021: Part 2
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 7, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
Let’s just jump right in since you can go to part 1 and see my yada, yada qualifications and such. Here’s the Tweet: End all corporate bailouts/welfare For those of you who remember the great recession of 2008, or have read about it in books such as Tom Woods’...

COVID-19 Lockdowns: Liberty and Science
by Sam Jacobs | Dec 1, 2020 | Featured Articles
COVID-19 hit America’s shores early in 2020 and since then there has been an abundance of misinformation and shifting goalpost. We have compiled all the data that you need about COVID and your civil liberties to take action.

NYPD Values Abusive Cop’s Pension Over Child He Starved and Froze to Death
by Matt Agorist | Oct 30, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
New York, NY — The death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva shocked the nation earlier this year when it was discovered his New York cop father was alleged to have beat him and starved him before throwing him into an unheated garage where he froze to death. As the...

Utah Proud Boys and BLM Join Together Against Racism, Call for Police Reform
by Matt Agorist | Oct 18, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Something pretty incredible happened earlier this month in Utah and because it showed two ostensibly opposing groups come together instead of promoting divide, it was curiously absent from nearly all mainstream media. The Proud Boys—who are considered a hate group by...
Reuters: Why 4,998 died in U.S. jails without getting their day in court
by Scott Horton | Oct 16, 2020 | Blog
Uh, because America is a corrupt, lawless totalitarian police state?

Denver’s Replacement of Cops With Mental Health Workers Has a 100% Success Rate
by Matt Agorist | Oct 14, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As The Free Thought Project has previously reported, the Virginia-based Treatment Advocacy Center, an organization dedicated to eliminating the barriers faced by those with severe mental illnesses, released a jaw-dropping report in regard to police interactions with...

Abolishing the Police in the Anarchist Tradition
by David D'Amato | Sep 17, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The tragic murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department has provoked a national conversation about police—their role in society, their protection from accountability, the unique danger they pose to civil society. That conversation has begun...

Traffic Lights, Risk Assessment, and Social Distancing in a COVID-19 World
by Zack Sorenson | Sep 15, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The summer in America’s South was somewhat incredible. People were refusing to wear masks, refusing to socially distance, and COVID-19 cases were increasing tremendously. Many hospitals were stressed and sending patients to other hospitals, then to other states. As...

Public Letter, Signed By Prosecutors, Judges, and Cops, Demands Congress Expunge All Marijuana Convictions
by Matt Agorist | Sep 9, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The organization formerly known as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), now known as Law Enforcement Action Partnership, along with the National Black Police Association, and Fair and Just Prosecution have signed onto a revolutionary letter to Congress urging...

A Protected Class: Police Union Issues ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards to Civilians
by Matt Agorist | Sep 7, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Known as blue privilege, there is an unwritten law among police officers: when they catch their fellow cop, or even their fellow cop’s family member or friend breaking the law, they are let go without consequence. Situations that have led to the murder of minorities...
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Another Successful Fundraiser and the Year Ahead
I cannot express how grateful I am, and all the staff and writers here at the Institute are, for your vote of confidence in our work. We've got an incredible year ahead. I'm working on my new book with Darryl Cooper now, Provoked: America's Role in the Russia-Ukraine...
Health Department Pours Bleach on “Unregulated” Food for Homeless!
https://youtu.be/K2-ME6D1bB0 If the government didn't have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos...
All I ever wanted to do was find a way to pay Will Grigg
William Norman Grigg was the kindest, smartest, best educated and most eloquent American spokesman for the cause of liberty, on the radio or in print — ever. But the poor guy was always broke, trying to hold together a giant family while writing freelance articles for...
Race, Climate, Islam, and WWIII – Libertarian Institute Roundtable
https://youtu.be/QDn52vTDg-k …[W]e now have the first complete data set of all suicide terrorist attacks around the world from 1980 to 2009,…research on who becomes a suicide terrorist showed that virtually none could be diagnosed as mentally ill, while many were...
My Body My Choice: Abolish the FDA
If you visit FDA.gov you will find a section titled "products we regulate". Such products include: food, drugs, medical devices, tobacco, cosmetics, and vaccines. The word "regulate" in this case translates to "we have a legal monopoly on what consenting adults...
Marco Rubio is Dumber Than I Thought
After spending six years complaining about "BigTech Monopolies" Marco Rubio now want's to ban BigTech competitors. It doesn't matter that tens of millions of Americans voluntarily choose to use TikTok, or that thousands make a living using this product. Marco Rubio...