Free Bradley Manning

Bradley Manning had a moral and legal duty to tell the truth about war crimes. He did the right thing in the face of personal danger. This embarrassed the U.S. government, so they tortured him, jailed him for nearly 3 years without trial, and will imprison him for up to 136 years. All for doing exactly what most of us will teach/have taught our children to do.‪ #‎FreeBradleyManning‬

Guilty of aiding the American people

Anthony Gregory: "The acquittal on “aiding the enemy” is appropriate. The private’s real crime has been aiding the American people. The public must decide: Does it stand with an unhampered national security state and a lawless administration seeking to conceal all its crimes, or with those who try to warn us and save what’s left of our liberties?"

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/30/guilty-of-aiding-the-american-people/

Basic stuff

I think pretty much all of us are libertarians at heart. We know it's wrong to take from others, and we don't use violence to force our neighbors to do as we say. We've just been taught from a very young age that it's ok for government to do these things. But it's not.

What an Honest Conversation About Race Would Look Like

"So, yes, let’s have that honest conversation about race. And let’s begin with the biggest enabler of racism of all: the state." - Sheldon Richman, The Future of Freedom Foundation

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/tgif-conversation-about-race/

Obama: "The government is us and we're doing things right"

The government is not "us". The government is "them". I am not arming known terrorist groups in Syria. I do not give billions of dollars to the Egyptian army which is currently killing people in the streets. I am not murdering and maiming thousands of innocents all across the Middle East with drones. I am not putting all Americans at risk with an insane, reckless, imperial foreign policy. That is them.

And although my money is being used to fund all of this, I am not the one robbing me to pay for it. They are.

Awesome!!

Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal

"Rather than locking up 100,000 criminals, the Portuguese are working to cure 40,000 patients and fine-tuning a whole new canon of drug treatment knowledge at the same time."

Obama defines "blessed" differently than most people

The 5th of July

Reflecting on yesterday for a second, we live under the biggest government in the history of time. Our rulers claim the authority to regulate any behavior, tax any event, and invade any privacy. Under the banner of "national security", they use any amount of violence they deem necessary against anyone, anywhere, anytime. Is this freedom?

The empire strikes daily

As kids, we could not possibly have understood how applicable Star Wars was and would increasingly become to real life.

Edward Snowden: "In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should be."

http://wikileaks.org/Statement-from-Edward-Snowden-in.html