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Fresno City Council Rejects Beware Surveillance Software (For Now)

April 7, 2016 Dylan Donnelly 461 Views Accountability, ACLU, address-specific public data, american civil liberties union, back-end algorithms and variables, bells and whistles, Beware software, Booker T. Lewis, CA, California, Civil rights, color-coded threat levels, community involvement and participation, community policing, contract, controversy, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, facebook, Faith in Community board, first responders, freedom, Fresno, Fresno Bee, Fresno City Council, Fresno Peoples Media, Fresno Police Department, grant, Harassment, homeland security, Illegal search/entry, Instagram, Intrado, Justice System, Michael Lee, pastor, police, Police Chief Jerry dyer, Police State, potential danger to responding officers, public skepticism, rights, Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church, social media, Surveillance, trustworthiness, Twitter, Update

The Fresno City Council rejected a proposal by Police Chief Jerry Dyer Thursday to purchase the Beware software the police

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Why Government Policing Monopolies Can Neither Serve Nor Protect You

August 18, 2015May 9, 2016 Asa J 829 Views anarcho-capitalism, arbitration, barrier of entry, capitalism, common law, competition, contract, copblock, copblock.org, cost-benefit analysis, Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth, Economics and Knowledge, F.A. Hayek, government monopoly, Hans Hermann Hoppe, knowledge problem, limited liability, ludwig von mises, market policing, monopoly, price signals, price system, private law society, private prisons, private property, regulation, socialist calculation problem, State or Private Law Society, taxation, The Use of Knowledge in Society, victimless crimes, voluntary exchange, voluntaryism, warren v. district of columbia

In 1920, the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises expanded on what is known as the “economic” or “socialist calculation

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No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

February 25, 2014 Pete Eyre 993 Views abolitionist, anarchy, constitution, contract, highwayman, individual rights, lysander spooner, marc stevens, natural law, no treason, no victim no crime, randy barnett, self-government, spontaneous order, the constitution of no authority, vices are no crimes, vote

No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority was written by Lysander Spooner, an abolitionist, in 1869. The entire essay is

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