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An Open Letter to Black Lives Matter Activists

August 29, 2016February 17, 2017 Alia Atreides 1257 Views abolish police, abolish the state, Activism, allies, black lives matter, BLM, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, ghettos, History, housing projects, Joshua H, Racism, the state, welfare

The following is the opinion of the author only. Among Cop Block Contributors there is a wide array of opinion

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Why Privatization Of Police Is A Necessary Precondition Of Abolition

April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 Asa J 2344 Views abolish the police, accountability is futile, Amish, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancaps, arbitration, Brehon Ireland, common law, competitive law, copblock, copblock.org, covenant, covenant communities, covenant community, culture, dale brown, david friedman, decentralization, degeneracy, English common law, fraud, frederic bastiat, free association, government, high-trust society, Insurance companies, irresponsible drug use, joshua hotchkin, libertarian, libertarianism, marketization, Medieval Iceland, merchant law, monopoly, murder, ostracism, parasitism, Pinkerton Detective Agency, polyamory, polycentric law, Private police, private policing, rape, religious law, reputation, social norms, state, stateless society, the state, Theft, threat management center, victimology, welfare state, welfareism

Over the past several months, CopBlock.org contributor Joshua Hotchkin has written a series of articles asserting that police accountability is

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Prisons Can’t be Exonerated of Their Role in The Police State

February 5, 2016February 4, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1523 Views a prisoners’ character, Accountability, african-american, anarchism, assault, assigned social role, barbaric, broken system, Brutality, C4SS, CA, California, center for a stateless society, Children, CIU, Civil rights, confinement, Conviction, Conviction Integrity Units, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, criminal justice system, Dishonesty, disposable, exonerated, false confession, federal convictions, fit of rage, force, freedom, future criminal activities, guilty plea, Harassment, institutions, involved with the wrong people, Justice System, kelly patterson, liberty, medecine, mentally handicapped, Minorities, modus operandi, myriad of reasons, National Registry of Exonerations, NBC, New York, Nick Ford, no crime, ny, one or a handful of incidents, Plea Bargain, police, police abuse, police accountability, police misconduct, Police State, poor exercise in judgement, Prison, prisoners, prisons are not innocent, Professor Samuel Gross, public spectacle, punishment, Race, racial element, Racism, recidivism, reform, restitution, restraint of individual's liberty, rights, state convictions, strike the root, System, Texas, the state, Torture, TX, U.S. District Judge John L. Kane, university of michigan, Witness intimidation, Witnesses, wrongful conviction, You Cannot Exonerate Prisons

This post was written by Nick Ford and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the

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The Police State Is Slavery – Abolition, Not Reform, Is the Only Solution

November 17, 2015November 17, 2015 Alia Atreides 1327 Views abolition, Accountability, Class, corporations, cronyism, Economics, force, government, Joshua H, labor, oligarchy, politics, Race, Slavery, the state

Last week I wrote an article entitled ‘Accountability Is Futile – Abolish the Police‘ in which I laid out the

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The Source of Authority is Our Support and Police Are Losing It

September 5, 2015September 4, 2015 Alia Atreides 1523 Views Accountability, authority, baby boomers, Civil rights, consent, copblock, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, excessive force, freedom, government, Harassment, Joshua H, police, police abuse, police accountability, psychopathic psychology, RedHatty, respect, rights, support, the state

The following work was submitted to us by a regular reader who had some thoughts to share on the state

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Judge Joe Brown Calls Jails ‘Slave Warehouses’ After 5 Day Stay

September 4, 2015 Alia Atreides 1389 Views Accountability, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, freedom, Joshua H, Judge Joe Brown, Justice System, juvenile court, memphis, Memphis Judge, Pete Eyre, Police State, rights, Shelby County Criminal Courts, Tennessee, the Machine, the state, True Verdict, tv judge

Judge Joe Brown of television fame, who was also an actual judge in the Memphis court system before that, recently

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Psychology Studies Show That Police Supporters & Terrorists Think Alike

August 20, 2015August 20, 2015 Alia Atreides 3113 Views Accountability, Arie Kruglanski, chaos, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, copsuckers, discordian, disorder, dogmatic denial of uncertainty, Double Standard, extremism, extremist beliefs, fear, freedom, Harassment, ISIL, isis, Joshua H, Justice System, Morocco, New York Times, Northern Ireland, NYU, order, original content, Palestine, police, police accountability, police support, Psychology, scientism, Spain, Sri Lanka, statism, status-reassuring certainties, Terrorism, the Philippines, the state, theology, University of Maryland, Zachary Fine

A recent article from the Australian media outlet SBS showing how Scientism is psychologically identical to religion or other forms

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A Farewell to Tax-Financed Murder

September 4, 2014September 3, 2014 Pete Eyre 705 Views carl watner, constitution, constitutional rights, cop block, copblock.org, I Must Speak Out, jeff knaebel, larken rose, lysander spooner, murder, no treason, taxes, the most dangerous superstition, the state, the voluntaryist, voluntaryism

The excerpt below was written by Jeff Knaebel and included in #137 of the newsletter, The Voluntaryist, edited by Carl

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Every State a Police State

July 5, 2014March 27, 2016 Ademo Freeman 1818 Views carl watner, Coercion, cop block, copblock.org, george smith, government, ideas have consequences, monopoly, Police State, robert nisbet, Slavery, taxation is theft, the state, voluntarism, voluntaryist

The write-up below, Every State a Police State, was written by Carl Watner in 2008. Though the article makes some

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To Be Governed Is to Be Controlled

January 2, 2014 Pete Eyre 1576 Views brainpolice, Coercion, conscience, cop block, copblock.org, democide, government, herbert spencer, ideas have consequences, john hasnas, leo tolstoy, lysander sponer, non-initiation of force, pierre-joseph proudhon, r.j. rummel, Self-ownership, the myth of the rule of law, the state

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled,

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