Twenty years into the 21st century, and what do we have to show for it? Government corruption, tyranny and abuse have propelled us at warp speed towards a full-blown police state in which egregious surveillance, roadside strip searches, police shootings of unarmed...
Justice
The Roots of Mass Incarceration
by Mike Swanson | Dec 27, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton (Harvard University Press, 2016), 449 pages. Before the war on the drugs there was the war on crime. In 1975 the police department of Washington, D.C.,...
WATCH: Cops Frame Innocent Brothers for Cocaine, Try to Destroy Video—But it Survived
by Matt Agorist | Dec 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
New York, NY — To all those who make the bogus claim of “if you don’t do anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about,” consider the following case as even more evidence of how ridiculous that assertion is. Two innocent brothers were framed by NYPD cops who were...
New Jersey Assembly Passes Transparency Bill For Police Seizures
by Nick Sibilla | Dec 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice
The New Jersey Assembly unanimously passed a bill late Monday that would shine a light on “civil forfeiture,” which lets law enforcement seize property without ever charging the owner with a crime. In New Jersey, once property is forfeited, the government can then...
WATCH: NYPD Attacks Innocent Mom, Rips Baby from Her Arms, Taxpayers Shell Out $625k
by Matt Agorist | Dec 17, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
New York, NY — Jazmine Headley and her one-year-old son waited in a Brooklyn public assistance office last year for two hours in an attempt to receive some aid. That aid would never come, however, as an appalling video shows, police would show up, rip Headley’s baby...
Bruce Benson’s “Where Does Law Come From?” Ep. 129
by Patrick Macfarlane | Dec 15, 2019 | Justice, Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
In this episode, I give the libertarian answer to the question "Where does law come from." In doing so, I refer to seminal English jurist Edward Coke. I also rely on works by Bruce Benson and Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Subscribe to Keith Knight's "Don't Tread on Anyone"...
Jewishness Is Not a Nationality
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 11, 2019 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Justice
On Wednesday, Donald Trump signed an executive order that implicity defines Jewishness as a racial or national catetory and not as just a religious category. The order further reinforces the Department of Education's power to sanction colleges that receive federal tax...
Betraying the Constitution
by John Whitehead | Dec 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
“It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government.”—Thomas Paine While Congress subjects the nation to its impeachment-flavored brand of bread-and-circus politics, our civil liberties continue to die a slow, painful death by a...