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   In a time where the West is entering an age of socialist totalitarianism, the message of the famous economist Milton Friedman may be revisited. In 1993, he published a groundbreaking essay on “Why Government Is the Problem,” pointing out that the influence of special interests often ends up overruling the interests of the people. As politicians and bureaucrats become …

  1,074,022 firearms were reported stolen in the U.S. from 2017-2021. Only 1.3% of criminals used a firearm that was purchased from an FFL during the commission of a crime, based on a 2016 survey. In 2021, 12,192 firearms were sourced in homicides, and 31,605 were used in dangerous drug-related offenses. 106,524 were recovered under the Possession of a Weapon …

  In my book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions (2000), I discussed the weaponization of law in order to easier convict criminals.  Once this process begins, it expands.  Weaponized Law: In the 21st century we have witnessed a remarkable expansion in the weaponization of law. For example, the use of weaponized law against Trump rally attendees and against President Trump himself.  The weaponization of …

  That the government of San Francisco, America’s most liberal city, on November 29, 2022 by a vote of 8 to 3, authorized robots to have life or death authority over citizens indicates the extent to which Americans have been dehumanized. The Loss of Human Control: Perhaps this dehumanization is the consequence of many decades of Washington slaughtering people from …

  Herland Report: The American Prison Industrial Complex: There’s no two ways about it: The United States of America and its 50 state governments love putting people in prison. The U.S. has both the highest number of prisoners and the highest per capita incarceration rate in the modern world at 655 adults per 100,000. That’s more than 2.2 million Americans in …

  Herland Report: TV host, Hanne Nabintu Herland speaks with Woodley Auguste about the US drug industry, the US prison industry injustice and the need for prison reform. Watch it here. “We have a problem because many young people are incarcerated, charged with sentences that are way beyond the parameters of the law,” says the founder of a U.S. based public …

  Herland Report: Gun Control and Racism: The laws and taxes were initially meant to limit minority gun ownership in America. The racially motivated attacks on the Second Amendment is explored in this article, as the point is being made that the right to bear arms means the right for minorities to defend themselves against oppression. Every schoolchild knows that …

  Herland Report: How we are presented to news, used to determine how we viewed what happened in the world. Not so much anymore, as the public rates the media extremely low, in the UK 24 % believe what they are told by newspapers and TV stations. People now understand that they are being misled by the media. An example …