By Matt Agorist Free Thought Project April 4, 2018 Police Warned by Family San Bruno Shooter Would Go After YouTube, Found Her BEFORE Shooting The father of the San Bruno shooter who opened fire in the YouTube headquarters Tuesday reportedly warned police — who talked to his daughter that morning — that she “hated” the […]
By Ryan McMaken Mises Institute March 1, 2018 Lack of Police Accountability Shows the “Social Contract” Isn’t Working Listen to Ryan McMaken’s commentary on the Radio Rothbard podcast. In the wake of the Florida school shooting earlier this month, Broward County police deputies are being accused of hiding outside the school while students were being […]
By John W. Whitehead The Rutherford Institute February 27, 2018 Armed and Dangerous: If Police Don’t Have to Protect the Public, What Good Are They? In the American police state, police have a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later. In fact, police don’t usually need much incentive to shoot and kill […]
By Rachel Blevins Free Thought Project February 8, 2018 Hero Fireman Pulls Woman from Wreckage, Saves Her Life, So a Cop Arrested Him When a veteran fireman witnessed a horrific car accident, he immediately began working to save the victim. The first officer to arrive on the scene thanked the hero by harassing and then […]
By Derrick Broze Activist Post February 5, 2018 The Federal Government is Using Tracking Tech to Monitor License Plates Nationwide In another example of the growing use of surveillance technology by the United States government, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency now has access to a nationwide license plate recognition database. Last […]
By John W. Whitehead The Rutherford Institute January 10, 2018 Justice Denied: The Government Is Not Going to Save Us The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled: it will not hear the case of Young v. Borders. Despite the fact that a 26-year-old man was gunned down by police who banged on the wrong door […]
By Nicholas West Activist Post December 19, 2017 As we continue to chart our path down the slippery slope of biometric identification for human beings, we’ve had to speculate about how far we could slide. Well, it appears that China is providing an early example that we would all be wise to take notice […]
By Rachel Blevins Free Thought Project December 19, 2017 Grand Haven, Michigan – A routine traffic stop turned into a search for drugs in which the officer intentionally turned off his Dash Cam – the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ruling that the officer did nothing wrong, completely […]
By John W. Whitehead The Rutherford Institute December 8, 2017 What Went Wrong in Charlottesville: At All Levels, Government Is Still the Problem Corruption. Graft. Intolerance. Greed. Incompetence. Ineptitude. Militarism. Lawlessness. Ignorance. Brutality. Deceit. Collusion. Corpulence. Bureaucracy. Immorality. Depravity. Censorship. Cruelty. Violence. Mediocrity. Tyranny. These are the hallmarks of an institution that is rotten […]
By John W. Whitehead The Rutherford Institute December 5, 2017 Nervous About Traffic Stops? I Am. You Should Be, Too We’ve all been there before. You’re driving along and you see a pair of flashing blue lights in your rearview mirror. Whether or not you’ve done anything wrong, you get a sinking feeling […]
By Against Crony Capitalism November 30, 2017 Congress Should Protect Americans from Unjust Property Seizure – American Conservative Union, the Institute for Justice, the NAACP, and the ACLU Join in Effort Civil asset forfeiture is wrong. Policing for profit is wrong. Taking people’s stuff away without even a conviction is wrong. And Attorney […]
By Ryan McMaken Mises Institute November 6, 2017 When Gunmen Strike, You’re on Your Own Here is an often-used tactic to defend government police organizations from criticism. Whenever critics point out abusive tactics of police officers, defenders counter with: “And yet you won’t refuse police help the next time there’s a robber in […]
