The Police State

Since 9/11, the US surveillance state has grown exponentially. However, the state of US paranoia has grown even more than that. Maybe there is a connection.

The state is the entity that officially accuses people of committing crimes, but it is the state itself that often is the perpetrator of crimes against humanity. 

Instead of trying to seek peaceful relationships between southern whites and former slaves during the Reconstruction period, the Reconstruction governments armed the former slaves and helped to set off violence and strife.

Instead of trying to seek peaceful relationships between southern whites and former slaves during the Reconstruction period, the Reconstruction governments armed the former slaves and helped to set off violence and strife.

John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute talks with Lew Rockwell about his book Against the State. 

More than 200 years ago, Daniel Webster argued eloquently against a military draft in the US. A half-century later, the US had instituted a draft and then did it again in 1917. The state owns your life and squanders it in wars built on lies.

The criminal regime of Fidel Castro not only stole the property of mathematician Aurelio Baldor, but also falsely claimed to have made the mathematical discoveries that were Baldor’s.

Anarchy is associated with chaos and mayhem, yet it is the state itself that unleashes chaos and mayhem on innocent people. It is time to rethink anarchy and its comparison to state power.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Fred Reed’s latest work, which lambasts the American propensity to fight pointless yet destructive wars abroad, all the while destroying what is left of what was once a decent society at home.

No, covid was not the exception to the rule that liberty comes first. Just because the CDC insisted we give up our freedom for what turned out to be a false security did not justify the government’s heavy-handed approach, something that libertarians should have understood all along.