Terrorist State
The arrogance of the U.S. government knows no bounds. They throw the word "terrorism" around with such abandon and frequency that it has almost become a cliché. Because of this, the de-facto definition of terrorism, as propagated by the U.S. government, has become: anything somebody else does that the U.S. government doesn’t like. And since the U.S. government has redefined the term then they couldn’t possibly ever be guilty of it themselves. Read more

Licensing Is About Protecting Incumbent Businesses
Most licensing efforts are nominally sold based on some public or consumer good but almost always end up being mostly about protecting politically connected incumbent businesses against new competitors. Nowhere is this more obvious than in liquor licensing. Read more

Hampton Hoookers
Laws against prostitution don't do much but make life difficult for sex workers and the occasional unlucky customer -- just ask Eliot Spitzer, the last governor of New York, how deterred he felt by the laws he had enforced as attorney general. They also drive the trade into inconvenient locations through efforts to evade the police... Read more

The more cops like this the worse we are
My contempt for the American police certainly can't go any lower. But some people who read this blog still cling to the fantasy that they are a decent lot. I say they are not. The "good" cops may not violate rights immediately but they know the ones who do and usually cover for them. Cops are criminals with permits to be criminals. Read more

Pigs Bind and Bleed Suspect
Though 53 year old Jamie Lockhard blew under the legal blood alcohol limit on his breathalyzer test, that apparently wasn't enough for Officer Brian Miller, Lawrenceburg, Indiana PD who allegedly (according to a lawsuit) had Lockhard shackled to a gurney to have blood and urine forcibly removed through a catheter. Torquemada

THE LEFT? NO THANKS!
by John Zerzan
Traditional or classical anarchism is as outmoded as the rest of the Left. It is not at all part of the oft-noticed surge of interest in anarchy. Note the usage here: it isn't anarchism that is moving forward, but anarchy. Not a closed, Eurocentric ideology but an open, no-holds-barred questioning and resisting. Read Article