May 20, 2013 in POLICE STATE, Preview, Preview 2
Dylan Murphy | The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been engaged in massive surveillance of peaceful protesters which undermines protections enshrined in the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Two recent studies raise serious questions about the way the DHS…
May 20, 2013 in POLICE STATE, Preview, Preview 3
John Glaser | This past weekend, Kokesh attended a marijuana legalization event in Philadelphia. Armed with a nothing but a microphone, Kokesh and several dozen others counted down from ten to light up their joints in defiance of the authoritarian drug prohibitions.
May 19, 2013 in FEATURED STORIES, Preview, TOR Blog, TOR Radio
TOR Radio | Download TOR Radio: May 18, 2013 | Guests: Lucy Steigerwald (1st Hour) and Marc Victor(2nd Hour) | Topics: MOVE Bombing, Philadelphia 1985, comparisons to Waco and all manner of police state madness. Plus, checkpoint tyranny along the border, the arrest of Cosme Cortez Jr., and much more.
May 16, 2013 in FEATURED STORIES, POLICE STATE, Preview, Preview 3
John W. Whitehead | Immediately following the devastating 9/11 attacks, which destroyed the illusion of invulnerability which had defined American society since the end of the Cold War, many Americans willingly ceded their rights and liberties to government officials who promised…
May 14, 2013 in POLICE STATE, Preview, Preview 2
Lucy Steigerwald | Like Waco, this standoff with so-called radicals involved disputed who-fired-first exchanges of gunfire; it also involved members being jailed, while government and law enforcement officials got — at best — a stern talking-to. By 1999, when law enforcement finally…
May 6, 2013 in POLICE STATE, Preview, Preview 3
Will Grigg | “What does it hurt,” asked Sheriff Ric Bradshaw of Florida’s Palm Beach County, “to have somebody knock on the door and ask, ‘Hey, is everything OK?’” The answer to that question obviously depends on the identity of the “Somebody” who is making that inquiry.
April 30, 2013 in FEATURED STORIES, POLICE STATE, Preview, Preview 3
Ron Paul | Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be searched without probable cause. Businesses forced to close. Transport shut down.
April 30, 2013 in POLICE STATE, Preview, Preview 2
Sheldon Richman | It would be nice if Benjamin Franklin’s famous aphorism were as widely believed as it is quoted. I doubt that Sen. Lindsey Graham and his ilk would express disagreement, but one cannot really embrace Franklin’s wisdom while also claiming that “the homeland is the battlefield.”
April 27, 2013 in FEATURED STORIES, News, Preview, Preview 3, TOR Blog
Danny Benavides | A comprehensive review of key events relating to Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that preceded the horrific bombing of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
April 24, 2013 in Preview, Preview 3, WAR AND EMPIRE
James Corbett | It has often been observed that the war on terror is unwinnable. After all, how could a war on an abstract noun ever have its “Mission Accomplished” moment? It is, according to this wisdom, meant to drag on forever. Just because a war can’t be won…
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