The dangers of challenging the state. Those living through this present age of SWAT team raids, police shootings of unarmed citizens, roadside strip searches, and invasive surveillance might feel as if these events are unprecedented. Yet while America may be experiencing a steady slide into a police state, it is neither the first nor the last ... MORE
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Showing posts with label coercion. Show all posts
John W. Whitehead: Jesus Lived In A Police State
The dangers of challenging the state. Those living through this present age of SWAT team raids, police shootings of unarmed citizens, roadside strip searches, and invasive surveillance might feel as if these events are unprecedented. Yet while America may be experiencing a steady slide into a police state, it is neither the first nor the last ... MOREJeff Berwick: Stealing Every Last Penny From Americans
More evidence the government is not us. All of a sudden the government lays claims to your savings. They can't prove you owe them a dime, but you're deprived due process. The legal bills become overwhelming, and so you let your money be stolen. You simply have no choice. Sound outlandish? It's not. Not in the "Land of the Free" ... MORE
Walter E. Williams: How To Assist Evil
Enhancing governments power to tyrannize. "Engineering Evil" is a documentary recently shown on the Military History channel. It's a story of Nazi Germany's murder campaign before and during World War II. According to some estimates, 16 million Jews and other people died at the hands of Nazis. Though the Holocaust ranks high among the ... MORE
Government Power Rests on Violence and Coercion
by A. Barton Hinkle. From police brutality to the events in Ukraine. “Ukrainian events have demonstrated,” writes Maria Snegovaya in
The New Republic, “that control of violence is still at
the very essence of the state.” She says Vladimir Putin’s
aggression proves that Max Weber’s definition of the state—an
entity with a monopoly on the ... MOREThe United States Vs. Toyota: Anatomy Of A Shakedown
by Judson Phillips. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday a $1.2 billion dollar settlement between Toyota and the U.S. government, ending a criminal probe into Toyota’s disclosure of alleged product defects. Most
Americans, if they pay attention to this at all, will simply see a
short blurb on the news with the announcement. ... MORETo End IRS Abuses Of Free Speech, End The IRS
by J.D. Tuccille. To read the headlines, you'd
think the biggest controversy involving the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS) is over the
spat between Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Rep. Elijah Cummings
(D-Md.) in the course of an
aborted hearing into the IRS's targeting of primarily
conservative political organizations. "We're better than that ... MOREFederal Fly Swatters: Pit Bulls vs. Poodles
by Edward Cline. Why have the feds bought 1.5 billion rounds of ammo? And outfitted local law enforcement agencies with warfighting gear? Is it to combat Islamic terrorism? Or you? It may come as a surprise to many, but the Library of Congress has its own SWAT team, 85 bodies strong. Learning this elicited a chuckle from me and a ... MOREWalter E Williams: Concealing Evil
The slavery liberals love. Evil acts are given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions, such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution, caring for the less fortunate, and the will of the majority. Let's have a thought experiment to consider just how much Americans sanction evil. Imagine there are several elderly ... MOREEmployers Forced To Get IRS Permission For Layoffs
by Lennie Jarratt. President Obama has once again decided to change a law without Congress. This time he is delaying the employer Obamacare mandate until 2016 for companies with 50-99 employees. He also lowered the percentage of companies of 100 or more to have to offer 70% of it’s employees coverage instead of 95%. If you remember ... MOREJeff Deist: Whatever Happened To Peace Officers?
We want Andy Taylor, we get the terminator. Today when we use the term peace officer, it sounds antiquated and outdated. I’m sure most people in the room under 40 have never heard the term actually used by anyone; we might as well be talking about buggy whips or floppy disks. But in the 1800s and really through the 1960s, the term ... MORE
The Best Defense Your Money Can’t Buy
by Jacob Sullum. Although the federal government accuses Kerri and Brian Kaley of trafficking in stolen medical devices, it has been unable to identify any victims of this alleged criminal scheme. That has not stopped the Justice Department from freezing the assets they need to defend themselves. The Supreme Court is now considering ... MOREJerry Brito: Escape From Political Control
Buying time to secure exit paths. Frustrated with
their political prospects, many libertarians are coming to the
conclusion that instead of trying to change government, a better
strategy might be to simply sidestep it entirely. Even
self-described Democrats and Obama supporters, like startup
founder and venture capitalist Balaji ... MOREVIDEO: Dumbest New Ban Of 2014
The winner is incandescent light bulbs (the one that casts a warm glow).
David Harsanyi: Opposing Things Without Banning Them
A case for persuasion over force. As a Denver Post columnist from 2004-11, I spent a considerable amount of time writing pieces advocating the legalization of pot. So I was happy when Colorado became one of the first to decriminalize small amounts of "recreational" marijuana. I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically ... MOREIan Kirkwood: Big Brother Is Phoning
2014 is 1984. When mobile phones first came into use, the big fear was radiation. Governments and the big phone companies said everything was safe but the worry remained that all of that electromagnetic energy pouring in and out from our ear-held phones would cause brain tumors. More recently, the biggest controversy over the new era of ... MORE
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