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  • In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much

    05/17/2015 7:25:09 AM PDT · by B4Ranch · 49 replies
    http://www.thedailybell.com/ ^ | May 06, 2015 | John Whitehead
    Police officers are more likely to be struck by lightning than be held financially accountable for their actions.—Law professor Joanna C. Schwartz (paraphrased) “In a democratic society,” observed Oakland police chief Sean Whent, “people have a say in how they are policed.” Unfortunately, if you can be kicked, punched, tasered, shot, intimidated, harassed, stripped, searched, brutalized, terrorized, wrongfully arrested, and even killed by a police officer, and that officer is never held accountable for violating your rights and his oath of office to serve and protect, never forced to make amends, never told that what he did was wrong, and...
  • Popularizing Freedom, and Why Real Libertarian Conservatives are Anti-State and Anti-War

    01/17/2010 3:37:59 AM PST · by plsjr · 35 replies · 772+ views
    The Daily Bell ^ | Sunday, January 17, 2010 | Scott Smith interviewsThomas E. Woods
    Bell: We think one of the main challenges facing America today is the growth of the so-called pro-military conservative movement. We believe the movement almost purposefully confuses people about Jeffersonian classical liberal thought and is far more challenging to the growing Misesian free-market ideology than the Democrats. Agree? Disagree? Woods: I think they're both pretty awful. I [was] one of these "the Pentagon can do no wrong" conservatives until I realized a few things: (1) the contradiction at work in my holding up this one government institution as beyond reproach; (2) the fact that government lies surrounding foreign policy are...