Thirty years ago, FBI tanks smashed into the ramshackle home of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. After the FBI collapsed much of the building atop the residents, a fire erupted and 76 corpses were dug out of the rubble . Unfortunately, the American political system and media have never honestly portrayed the federal abuses and political
From the early 1990s onward, I was exposing FBI crimes, lies, and cover-ups. FBI director Louis Freeh publicly denounced me after I wrote a Wall Street Journal piece on the FBI’s killing of an innocent mother holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. I continued hammering FBI abuses in the Journal , Playboy , American Spectator , and other
“Tyranny in form is the first step towards tyranny in substance,” warned Senator John Taylor two hundred years ago in his forgotten classic, Tyranny Unmasked . As the massive National Guard troop deployment in Washington enters its second month, much of the media and many members of Congress are thrilled that it will extend until at least
In a free society, peaceful citizens deserve the legal benefit of the doubt. In an age where government agents have endlessly intruded onto people’s land and into their emails, citizens should not be scourged for transgressing unknown or unmarked federal boundaries. Original Article: “ In a Paranoid Nation, “Treason” Is Everywhere “ This Audio
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Waco Massacre in which the media and the government self-congratulated each other in absolving the FBI of any crimes. Nothing has changed since then. Original Article: “ Waco 30 Years Later: It Is Not an Atrocity if the Feds Do It”
The TSA has been promising to end its boneheaded ways for more than 20 years. Flying out of Dallas International Airport last week, I ruefully recognized that all TSA reform promises are malarkey. As I neared the end of a TSA checkpoint line, I saw two women loitering behind a roped off section for CLEAR, a new biometric surveillance program that
In the past two decades, the TSA has proven it is ineffective in providing real security for airline passengers. However, its growing incompetence is matched only by its increasing intrusion into travelers’ lives. Original Article: The TSA Is Still Crazy after All These
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. FBI agents across the nation are tracking down and arresting Trump supporters who walked into the US Capitol during the January 6 protest that turned into a brawl. Scores of protestors have already been charged with unlawful entry—“knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building
Hace treinta años, los tanques del FBI irrumpieron en la destartalada casa de los Branch Davidians en las afueras de Waco, Texas. Después de que el FBI derrumbara gran parte del edificio sobre los residentes, se declaró un incendio y 76 cadáveres fueron desenterrados de entre los escombros . Por desgracia, el sistema político americano y los
Desde principios de la década de los noventa, yo sacaba a la luz los crímenes, las mentiras y los encubrimientos del FBI. El director del FBI, Louis Freeh, me denunció públicamente después de que escribiera un artículo en el Wall Street Journal sobre el asesinato por parte del FBI de una madre inocente con su bebé en Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Seguí
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