A photo, taken at Cypress Elementary in the Lakeside Community, in Kissimmee, FL, submitted to the Free Thought Project this week, paints a very disturbing picture.   The photo is of a 10 year old child handcuffed, laid out on the back of a police cruiser. The boy’s name is …

Cop: “What’s this right here?” —  Man: “That is my penis.” Stop and frisk is defined by Cornell University Law School as a brief, non-intrusive, police stop of a suspect. However, there are far too many examples of these supposed ‘non-intrusive’ tactics going too far. Also, the Fourth Amendment requires that the …

Police Cadet Michael William Little, of Knoxville, Tennessee was shot and killed after he opened fire on his ex-girlfriends family, killing one of the guests at the home, and wounding several others.  Little allegedly became hostile when he showed up at the house 2 weeks after him and his ex-girlfriend …

“Don’t Call 911” Good Samaritan Backfire or How I Ended Up in Solitary After Calling 911 for Help Medium Peretz Partensky August 3, 2014   I live in a new gilded age in a golden city. But sometimes the cracks show, even here. The façade crumbles and you find yourself …

Theater of the absurd in the American police state grows more tragic and incomprehensible By John W. Whitehead  July 28, 2014 “The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. …

We’re operating in a topsy-turvy Sherwood Forest where you’ve got the government and its merry band of corporate thieves stealing from the poor to fatten the wallets of the rich.. Rutherford Institute.org John W. Whitehead July 27, 2014 “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your …

It’s vogue, trendy, and appropriate to look to dystopian literature as a harbinger of what we’re experiencing at the hands of the government The Rutherford Institute John W. Whitehead  July 9, 2014 “The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for …

The Free Thought Project Matt Agorist July 4, 2014   A couple from Barnesville, Minnesota are under investigation for cultivating and selling marijuana after their 9-year-old daughter turned them in to police. According to court documents filed at the end of June in Clay County District Court, the girl went to …

Mother thought police would “save him, not finish him off” Steve Watson Infowars.com July 3, 2014   In yet another instance of police making a bad situation infinitely worse, a Virginia family was left reeling when an officer shot their son to death despite being called to out to help stop the …

Battlefield USA: American police ‘excessively militarized’ – ACLU study   RT.com June 24, 2014 Inheriting both the weapons and the mindset of the US military, police are becoming militarized and ‘hyper aggressive’ in their approach to maintaining security on the streets of America. New study calls on police not to …