Anthony Antonello and Danny Panzella wait to ask Donald Rumsfeld if he ever found that $2.3 Trillion that he said was unaccounted for at a press conference the day before 9/11.
LAWRENCE — Mayor William Lantigua says he will no longer pay legal bills for police officers being sued, including the bills for those officers involved in nine brutality cases pending in U.S. District Court.
The mayor says over the past three years, the city has spent $1.2 million to defend officers in civil cases. Instead, Lantigua says he will hold to the police unions' contract, which says the city only has to pay the $5,000 retainer for a patrolman and $7,500 for a supe... (more)
This is great, no doubt perhaps the biggest contributor to police abuse is the total lack of any personal accountability, if you subsidize police abuse by paying their court costs you are going to get more of it, if you let them pay the price for their own abuses you will get less.
Realistically, people should be demanding police must pay the entirety of their legal bills personally, just as every other pleb has to. - Chris, InfoLib
Tired of waiting for a libertarian United States of America? Maybe the answer is to start small.
Enter Libertopia, a documentary by director Christina Heller and producer Craig Goodale that follows three guys' attempt to make one state free. Heller sat down with Reason.tv's Ted Balaker to discuss the Free State Project, why s... (more)
Wow, Tom really disarms this rabid neocon. I was waiting after each point Tom made for Dennis to spew some neo-con agitprop, instead he just laughed and agreed. Perhaps the new posturing is acting like a libertarian? - Chris, InfoLib
A wild conversation about current affairs; the Venus Project, turning your children over to the men who start wars, protecting property in a free society -- and taking the cancer of the state to that nice Dr. Anarchist!
[...] One shout of "where's Bin Laden?" rang out as Cheney spoke of Rumsfeld.
That led to the pro-Cheney contingent (which it should be said greatly outnumbers the opposition) to shout the hecklers down with the familiar "USA, USA" chant.
It was all very odd, especially considering that when Cheney appeared as... (more)
Gotta love the idiot statist laughs in the crowd when their dictator spews his obligatory idiotic one liner for the cowardly feeble minded flunkies to ease their cognitive dissonance. - Chris
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians have poured into Cairo’s Tahrir Square for the latest protest calling for Hosni Mubarak’s government to step down. The BBC’s Jim Muir, in the Egyptian capital, says it is the biggest demonstration since the protests began on 25 January. It comes despite the
We have reaction just in to our newsroom... from a seattle man arrested after refusing to show his i-d to security agents at the sunport ... and filming the incident. just about an hour ago... an albuquerque jury cleared phil mocek of all charges. "it's been a long time - i feel good that we had polic... (more)
Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses how little has changed since 1967 when MLK referred to the US government as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today;” the incongruence of the US government’s taken-for-granted massive and arbitrary use of violence abroad and the official uproar over the relatively few casualties in the Tucson shootings; con... (more)
"You can't solve problems with guns."
"We don't need any more restrictions in our society..."
"If maybe the gunman had some friends and family around him prior to this, this wouldn't have happened."
"I think there's always going to be random acts.... (more)
Scott Horton of Antiwar.com gives an excellent speach on how the state creates depressions through printing money and the artificial boom bust cycle. He explains how far from war improving the economy, it destroys it. It's not the American way that's failed, it's our abandonment of the American way that's failed. ... (more)
A caravan of Denver's finest Truthers travels to Colorado Springs joining the Colorado Springs chapter to protest Oliver North's "Freedom Congress". 2 members arrested, 2 others were assaulted. Great time was had by all!!
COLFAX, CA - WORLD EXCLUSIVE: The airline pilot who lost his federally-issued gun and badge for posting video on YouTube critical of airport security has chosen to go public with his identity.
"My name is Chris Liu and I'm an airline pilot," Liu said during an exclusive interview Monday with News10 at his home in Colfax.
Liu's cell phone video tour of security at San Francisco International Airport led to a team of six federal agents and sheriff's deputies coming to... (more)
