…system by the state or is instead a rogue operation with coopted police powers to hold people against their will. Which I think would be called false imprisonment, in tort…

…and no less than what its political masters have been prepared to allow it to do. There is no political will to create a body that could genuinely police international…

Naked Capitalism has an article The Continuing Depopulation of Detroit on Detroit which I attempted to answer. No one cause can be assigned to answer what happened to Detroit since…

…criminal and civil, state and federal—police conduct; prosecutor conduct; criminal laws (including sentencing); outrageous traffic fines and court fees; the near-total nullification of the Constitution’s habeas corpus protection in state-court…

…and local government police and judicial powers. Freedom is defined not by what happens to you but instead by which government, and what part of that government, is doing it….

by Sandwichman The Confederate Ideology: “At this cost the system is maintained.” A Republican Propaganda Mill Cockburn’s article gives a good idea of the breadth and intensity of the moral…

…would have warmed the hearts of Hispanic and African-American voters, of course, given their fondness for Sheriff Joe Arpaio and 1980s-‘90s-era tough-on-crime criminal laws and still-current police tactics and outrageous…

…second resulted in a six million dollar verdict against Badger Guns after guns negligently sold there were used to shoot police officers.[9] The Brady Center and families of victims of…

…a armed confrontation between ‘patriots’ and the forces of government the ‘Patriotic Wolverines’ will lose. Until or unless they subvert the military and the federal police forces over to their…