My young son recently asked me "What is the police?" I hesitated and he repeated the question. I knew my wife was cringing at the thought that I would start indoctrinating our children about the evils of the state and its instruments. I wanted to avoid an all-too-tempting "The police are...
The growing use of tasers by the police and the invention of novel non-lethal weapons have led to calls to ban or restrict their use. The two sides of the debate are usually identified as the "civil libertarian" left/liberals versus the "law and order" right/conservatives. The liberals...
Consider this scenario, police meaning to a serve a no-knock warrant get lost and mistakenly end up invading the wrong house. The home owner, defending his home from unidentified assailants, fires at and kills an officer. Who is to blame? One defense for the officers jumps to mind, the home owner should...
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A copule years ago a book was published called The Lucifer Effect . It recorded a long-running experiment at Stanford University where some students were "prison guards" and other students were "inmates." To make a long storty short, the gaurds basically went power mad and a mini...
Everything I see on Lew Rockwell's site recently reinforces a notion I have been developing. The United States is a police state already and we are moving beyond it to even greater levels of oppression. This new form I like to call a prison state. The prison state is a state where all the citizens'...