Darian Worden on Almost Getting Away With Murder William Grigg on Costumed Government Goons vs. Children and the Elderly Charles Johnson on The Police Beat: Officer J. Smith, Las Vegas Metro Radley Balko on More Watching of the Watchers Radley Balko on Innocence, Schminnocence: We Have Rules, You Know John Markley on To Serve, Protect, [...]
All you anarchists who criticise our heroic police officers – who are you going to call when you need your bedridden grandmother suffocated, tased, and lacerated?
If you’re interested in signing a petition asking Rand Paul to support Red & Black Café’s right to bar cops from their premises, click here. (I don’t know how thrilled the Café would be with Paul’s support – but I doubt they’re at much risk of getting it ….)
My friend William Gillis writes to me: For over a decade I’ve frequented The Red & Black Cafe in Portland – an IWW, explicitly anarchist, worker-owned coop – and over the years they’ve faced all the sort of police harassment and surveillance you’d expect for a venue catering to radical activists. Recently a uniformed police [...]
George Donnelly, whose case I’ve linked to before, is being prosecuted for, as far as I can tell, being an inconvenient witness to police brutality. More info here, here, and here. Please help if you can:
Going through a box of old papers, I found this letter I wrote to the Chapel Hill News back in my North Carolina days; I don’t recall whether it was published. 18 May 1994 To the Editor: The current debate over gun control is the latest, and perhaps the last, skirmish in a centuries-old conflict [...]
For theocops in Saudi Arabia. (CHT LRC.)
Cop violates freedom of guy filming cop violating freedom of other guy. Hey, if the cop wasn’t doing anything wrong, what was he afraid of? (To coin a phrase.)
Forty years ago today, Ohio National Guardsmen murdered four unarmed students at Kent State and wounded nine others, permanently paralysing one. (CHT Making Light for the reminder.) The students’ crime? Protesting the invasion of Cambodia (or, in some cases, walking nearby while others were protesting it). “That is government; that is its justice; that is [...]
The TSA at work.
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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