The Police State

This remarkable book is the most comprehensive, sweeping, compelling, and unsettling case ever penned against what is laughingly called the criminal-justice system. It is a classic, devastating at its core, that is made newly available to speak...

In a police state, we're all criminals. How many laws have you broken today? This week? This month? Have you changed lanes without a turn signal? Exceeded the posted speed limit? Hired a neighborhood kid to cut your grass and then paid him under the table?

Don’t leave the job of criminal investigation to the politicized state, writes William L. Anderson.

Government is a gang of thieves writ large. Let's look at the reality. 

Previously untouchable aspects of life are subjected to dictate. Even travel, formerly a right, is now a privilege granted by government agents at their whim.

The United States incarcerates more people than any country in the world today and throughout history. The financial costs are tremendous and rising. It is uncreative, abusive, socialistic, and robs our society and economy of vast human and material resources. It is also un-American.

A DUI is one of the infractions that can cause a de facto iron curtain to fall across the Canadian-US border, separating friends and family; other infractions include possession of marijuana or even a medical-marijuana card, shoplifting, and an arrest for attending a rally.

When the Egyptian protests first broke out, most Americans celebrated.

Government and the media bombard us with examples of real or often just imagined threats and expand them so that they become as big as our worst nightmares. As more of us buy into an overblown story, it takes on a life of its own and often becomes the accepted truth.

Is there an alternative to this Big Brother approach to managing homeland security? I think there is: private defense agencies offering competitive services on an open market.