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The Kentucky Head Stomp Was Plain Wrong

Slave on slave violence strikes again. How do we get past this?

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Restorative Justice is Better than Vengeance

Better to make victims whole than punish offenders.

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Allentown, PA Rally For Photography and Pamphleting Rights Earns Local TV Coverage

On June 4th of this year, 30 upstanding individuals rallied for photography and pamphleting rights in solidarity with me. These good folks achieved coverage not only by the independent TV station WFMZ but also by a local Spanish-language newspaper. This goes to show that if the cause is worthy and you exert the effort, noteworthy […]

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Opinion

Can Insurance Companies Function as Sources of Defense and Justice?

Over at C4SS’ Stateless U in ATP 101 we’re reading The Market for Liberty. Here are my comments on one of the discussion questions. “In what way or ways would it be most difficult for insurance companies to function successfully as sources of justice and defense against aggression?” I don’t think insurance companies can function […]

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Colin Powell: The Federal Prison System is Just as Rigged as Gitmo But Without the Stigma

I remember the media circus around Colin Powell possibly running for president and what party he would choose. The media built him up as the non-partisan military man of honor who was going to save us. What a joke. He disgraced himself with his lying Iraq war sales pitch but now he’s back actually speaking […]

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Peaceful Swimmers Resist Frivolous, Incompetent Injustice System

You’re going to like this guy. After 30 years of unmolested enjoyment of a swimming hole, cops crack down with trespassing charges for dozens of peaceful swimmers in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Despite the state’s failure to prove their charges, the gentleman in the film was found guilty. He appealed and finally was vindicated. Check out this […]

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Why Fully Informed Jury Members are so Important

Jim Allen succinctly explains the history and importance of jury nullification and fully informed jurors in this five-minute video. Definitely worth a look. The jury’s power to judge the law as well as the facts freed slaves and helped roll back the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920’s.

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Despite Threats, Activists Inform Jurors

Activists educate. Thugs intimidate. Find out who wins.

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Agorism

Check out the Free Market at Work in Argentina

In The Take (2004) laid off workers in an IMF-bankrupted nation demonstrate free market principles as they take back the means of production from bailed-out, absentee landlords and rebuild their own lives as productive people. To some it might look like a struggle against capitalism. But I would say it is an example of free […]