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Engineering a Crisis: How Political Theater Helps the Deep State Stay in Power

by John W. Whitehead July 24, 2024

“The two ‘sides’ of mainstream politics are not fighting against one another, they’re only fighting against you. Their only job is to keep you clapping along with the two-handed puppet show as they rob you blind and tighten your chains while your gaze is fixed on the performance.”—Caitlin Johnstone A failed assassination attempt on a presidential candidate. An incumbent ...

Should Bump Stocks Be Illegal?

by Laurence M. Vance July 16, 2024

In October of 2017, a gunman in a hotel room on the Las Vegas Strip fired multiple guns from his hotel window on a crowd of 22,000 gathered for an outdoor country music festival. After shooting over 1,000 rounds in about 10 minutes, 60 people lay dead, and more than 860 people were injured before the gunman took ...

Project Total Control: Everything Is a Weapon When Totalitarianism Is Normalized

by John W. Whitehead July 15, 2024

“The biggest mistake I see is people waiting for A Big Sign that’ll tell them that things have gone too far. One Big Thing that police or lawmakers or the president/leaders will do that will cross the line. It’ll never come because they won’t cross it. They’ll move the line. That line you think you stand behind is shifting ...

How I Came to Investigate the Ian Freeman Case

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 9, 2024

Note: FFF will be at FreedomFest in Las Vegas starting tomorrow (Wednesday) through Sunday. Therefore, there will be no FFF Daily or my blog published for the rest of this week. We will resume publication on Monday, July 15. ***** I fully realize that my 3-part article “The Unjust Conviction of an Innocent Man: The Ian ...

The Unjust Conviction of an Innocent Man: The Ian Freeman Case, Part 3

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 3, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 As I pointed out in parts 1 and 2 of this article, the main thrust of the U.S. government’s case against Ian Freeman involved money-laundering and conspiracy to launder money. The money-laundering charge came after the undercover IRS agent Pavel Prilotsky posed as a drug dealer in an attempt ...

The Unjust Conviction of an Innocent Man: The Ian Freeman Case, Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 2, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In 2008, a person by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto revolutionized the monetary world with the invention of bitcoin, the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency. Concerned about the omnipotent control over money that governments all over the world wielded and the massive violations of financial privacy that came with such control, ...

Why Not Eliminate Taxes on All Income?

by Laurence M. Vance July 2, 2024

During a campaign stop in Nevada early last month, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised that if elected, there would be no more federal tax on tips. Said Trump: “For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very happy, because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes ...

The Unjust Conviction of an Innocent Man: The Ian Freeman Case, Part 1

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 28, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 If one googles the name “Ian Freeman” and “bitcoin,” the result will be hundreds  of articles describing Freeman as a “fraudster.” That’s because immediately after  Freeman’s sentencing in a criminal case in a U.S. District Court in New Hampshire  on October 2, 2023, the U.S. Attorney’s office in ...

How the Police State Acclimates Us to Being Modern-Day Slaves

by John W. Whitehead June 27, 2024

“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all ...

Timely Lessons About Tyranny from the Father of the Constitution

by John W. Whitehead June 21, 2024

“Take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.” — James Madison James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become mere “parchment barrier,” words on paper ignored by successive generations of Americans. How right he was. Although Madison initially felt that the inclusion of a bill of rights in the ...

Should There Be Laws against Adultery?

by Laurence M. Vance June 19, 2024

The Supreme Court of India a few years ago struck down a colonial-era adultery law that made it illegal for a man to have sex with a married woman without the permission of her husband. Laws that criminalized adultery in Taiwan and South Korea have likewise recently been overturned by their constitutional courts. It is too bad that laws ...

What’s Next for Battlefield America?

by John W. Whitehead June 14, 2024

“I did not know Israel was capturing or recording my face. been watching us for years from the sky with their drones. They have been watching us gardening and going to schools and kissing our wives. I feel like I have been watched for so long.”—Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian poet If you want a ...