Can we round up the bad guys, without being fascists? The issue comes up again due to the latest antics by ICE (the post 9/11 enforcement bureaucracy for dealing with immigrants who are not lawfully in the US, or not being lawful while here). The recent Bronx incident where a suspect was shot in the neck while his 5 year old child was in the car, was another example of misconduct by feds who conduct brutal engagement more like IDF trained thugs fighting “the war on terror,” than like peace officers. Executing the laws on immigration is justified, but a shoot first, beat alleged perps up second protocol for apprehension is excessive, not to mention unconstitutional. It reminds us of last week’s news release by the NY Civil Liberties Union, who like the ACLU has been tracking the violations:

…In a momentous victory for immigrants’ rights, today the Southern District of New York issued a final, landmark ruling in African Communities Together and The Door v. Todd Lyons striking down one of the Trump administration’s most extreme policies that allowed ICE agents to arrest people for showing up to immigration court. With this ruling, ICE officers cannot conduct civil immigration enforcement actions in or near immigration courthouses, except under limited circumstances, in New York City and across the nation.

“Today’s ruling is an enormous win for every noncitizen seeking to safely attend their immigration court proceedings,” said Amy Belsher, director of Immigrants’ Rights Litigation at the New York Civil Liberties Union. “For too long, we watched masked, often armed, ICE officers ambush noncitizens in courthouse hallways, throw immigrants to the ground, and tear sobbing children from their parents. But with today’s order, the Court made clear: ICE’s cruel, unjustified policy of conducting mass immigration arrests in courthouses is unlawful and cannot stand.” Read More

Discussion of the controversy of intrusive surveillance and data collection. The legal argument in defending flock tech is that we don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy when in public, BUT the input from new cameras can be integrated with other information the state can get from corporate arrangements (e.g., it’s presumed you give Google wide rights to share your data when you use their apps):

A new national LP membership renewal appeal message, from Evan McMahon below, has invited some controversy by displaying open distain towards the previous policy or messaging of the national party. Former Queens LP Chair John Clifton comments: “Just to play Devil’s advocate here, I don’t see that recent problems with LP party growth are best addressed by discouraging coalition building, or trashing one major party’s President. Is there, in fact, a MAGA or ‘Trump establishment,’ or was that populist movement (until recently) conducting battles against the statist establishment that the LP failed to fight? Are we that petrified of change, or even temporary alliances? How can the LP get anywhere near 51% to win elections, if it’s bashing all voters who are not Libertarian, instead of dialoging with them?

“Or is it a matter of objecting to shifting emphasis? As Scott Horton has recently hinted, there is a latent conversation going on between the conservative libertarian and left libertarian wings of the movement, with the latter faction presuming it is (or always should be) the “real” face of the LP. The party was often perceived for decades as being de-facto left-friendly, with few internal complaints, yet when the previous National Chair and committee was perceived to be trying a right-friendly approach for two years, they were demonized out of power, even after getting re-elected. Instead of scapegoating Trump for a poor national vote showing in 2024, or Tucker going forward, perhaps the LP should just avoid nominating candidates who were not effective, compared to Gary Johnson in 2016.” Oh well, here’s the new Chair:

You left for a reason.

Maybe it was the day our official social media feeds started sounding more like a MAGA rally than the Party of Principle. Maybe it was watching party leadership cozy up to the Trump establishment while our own candidates were left twisting in the wind. Or maybe you just got tired of explaining to your friends, “That’s not what Libertarians believe.”

I don’t blame you. A lot of good people walked away during those years. But I want you to hear this from me personally: we fought back, and we took our party back.

Click here to rejoin us now! >>>

Here’s what’s changed

We’re radical and unapologetically libertarian again. The MAGA rhetoric that stained our social media feeds is gone. Our message is back to what brought you here in the first place: liberty and justice for all, end the wars, end the drug war, end the surveillance state, end qualified immunity, and get government out of your bedroom, your wallet and your doctor’s office, no matter which party is trying to barge in.
We back our candidates. All of them, all the time. Not just when it happens to help some establishment Republican or Democrat. Libertarian Party resources go to Libertarian candidates. Period.
We’re growing again. We’ve now had four straight months of membership growth. I won’t pretend it’s been earth-shattering, but after four straight years of decline, it’s proof the comeback is real.
But they’re coming back, too.

Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and the “America First” crowd have soured on Trump, and they’re openly talking up a 2028 presidential run outside the Republican Party. Greene has already declared, “I SUPPORT TUCKER.”

Here’s what every would-be third-party savior learns the hard way: you can’t run for president without ballot access, and building it takes decades of petitions, lawsuits and sweat. We have it. We earned it, state by state, over more than fifty years. And they would love nothing more than to walk in the front door and take it.

We’ve seen this playbook before. The last time outsiders flooded our party, membership collapsed from 17,000 in 2022 to fewer than 9,000, and after three straight million-vote presidential campaigns, our 2024 nominee drew just 650,126 votes.

Here’s why I’m not afraid

A hostile takeover only works on an empty house. They win when good libertarians stay home. They lose when we show up.

Click here to rejoin us now! >>>

We must grow our membership numbers with solid libertarians, so there’s no room left for a hijacking. We can drown out our enemies, and the last hidden saboteurs still infecting our party will have nowhere left to hide.

And I believe we can do it.

It’s also likely that if we continue our on-platform Libertarian messaging across social and traditional media, we will make the interlopers uncomfortable enough to leave.

Once we’re back to strength, we can go even harder on offense. Our Parity Project is a ten-year plan to find the tens of millions of libertarian-leaning Americans and build a party that can stand toe to toe with the Democrats and Republicans. But the Parity Project, our ballot access and every candidate we run all depend on the same thing: members.

Come home today! >>>

Not next month. Not next year. Not in time for the next convention. Today.

Re-join us today at lp.org/join. It takes two minutes. >>>

And because I believe every person who comes home right now is helping save this party, everyone who rejoins this month will get a “I saved the LP!” button, made by me in my office.

In Liberty,

P.S. Four straight months of growth tell me the tide is turning, but Tucker Carlson and the America First crowd are counting on you to stay on the sidelines. Prove them wrong. Rejoin today, and your handmade “I saved the LP!” button is on its way.

You left for a reason. Come back for a better one: to make sure the Libertarian Party belongs to libertarians. For good.

Click Here to Rejoin Today!

Join us for QL’s general meeting as the Libertarian Party of Queens County (LPQC) on October 10, 2026, at 12:00 PM. It will be held at our Astoria location, Stamatis Greek and Mediterranean Restaurant at 29-09 23rd Avenue (in the back area, menu details at stamatisrestaurant.net). We welcome our guest, Catrina Rocco, Dutchess County LP State Committee Rep and Volunteer Director. Catrina will discuss her ideas for the state party, as she is running for State Chair. The election will be at the upcoming state convention.

Scott Horton patiently explains how the entrenched “Winner Take All” 51% coalition system in American politics means it is not plausible for a new third party to take hold, as most people (the current 51%) only wants to vote for an already established majority coalition, to win right now. You either have to gain 51% coalition status in this defacto zero-sum game, or else you lose. So, outside the two main parties, there are only 2 choices for achieving victory: 1) to go with a credible “outsider figure” who can bring a new 51% coalition together right now (last time, Trump, next time, Tucker Carlson?). OR 2) an organized third party has to destroy and replace one of the existing major coalition parties (the way the Radical Republicans replaced the Whigs). The LP has to go full cutthroat, and take over and convert the GOP, or take over and convert the Democrats. Horton implies many left-Libertarians in the party want to do this by taking over the Democrats, which is why they shunned “Trump-adjacent” attempts to do so through the Republicans—whereas right-Libertarians think the LP had more real success trying to convert the GOP (during the Ron Paul campaigns of 2008 and 2012):

The exiting Congressman at the Institute, on the libertarian approach to manuveuring within the heart of the Deep State until his last day:

Review of the ongoing indictment of Rep. LaMonica McIver and other ICE excesses. Yes, the member of Congress made several obnoxious misjudgments during the incident, but the zeal employed in prosecuting her over a momentary confrontation where no one was injured, suggests vindictive politics was the main factor behind legal action launched against her:

…According to then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, testifying to Congress a few days after the May 9 incident, a “mob of protesters including three members of Congress stormed the gate and they trespassed into the detention facility.” According to a Department of Homeland Security press release, “lawmakers used an arriving ‘bus of detainees’ as a decoy to gain entrance, then ‘holed up in a guard shack’” and “lawmakers attacked officers, including ‘body slamming a female ICE officer.’” According to President Donald Trump, commenting directly on McIver, “She was out of control. Those days are over, the days of woke are over.”

This is a cinematic narrative, and almost none of it is true. Investigating the actual facts of the case of LaMonica McIver does reveal several arguable errors of judgment by her and the two other congresspeople who visited the detention facility that day. But the majority of the facts point to a different, more disturbing narrative: layers of overreach from Washington DC that culminated first in the incident of May 9, then in the indictment of May 19, and then in an accelerating chain of abuses and dysfunctions at the ICE detention facility in Newark which continue to the present day. The majority of the facts also suggest that the main actors on May 9 were not errant members of Congress but corporate-government bureaucrats—ICE agents, Department of Homeland Security agents, private security contractors—who flouted laws and constitutionality, then used minor misjudgments by the congresspeople to justify an outsized response. This story is considerably more dramatic than the Trump administration’s cinematic narrative when it comes to its implications for the legal and political underpinnings of our constitutional republic, because ICE’s layers of overreach did not happen in a vacuum.

I have reported for the Libertarian Institute on some of ICE’s actions and how they represent an acceleration of domestic militarization by the Executive with the aid of private security contractors with monopolies on government contracts. Less obvious is the way that this domestic militarization has converged with and helped enable the erosion of local and state authority to the benefit of Washington DC and the disempowerment of Congress to the benefit of the Executive and the federal courts…Read the rest

Larry roasts former Queens cop and SS agent Dan Bongino over his whiney claims and actions. As ex-deputy head of the FBI his betrayals are many, including posing as an America-First libertarian while bashing Rep. Massie, about the only liberty leaning guy left in Congress (until AIPAC etc spent over $30 million to primary him out of his seat):

Former LPNY member, NYPD officer, civil liberties advocate and friend of liberty John W. Perry was retiring as a cop on September 11, 2001, when heard of WTC events that morning (whereupon he redonned his uniform and ran to the complex to save lives). He perished that day, but is never to be forgotten, as Norma Segal reflects:

My friend Bill, whom you know, yesterday at street named for our dear friend John Perry.  John and I were extras together in the Howard Stern movie and he helped me get my Segal for Senate petition signatures during breaks. He wore his cop uniform in the film which he always took seriously and rushed to save people on 9/11.

Yes, he went there that fatal day to submit his retirement papers.  Went in to save people when the Tower fell down on him. Naming the street was to honor him and his heroism.

Great guy!!!

Your Sister-in-Liberty,  n.

The biggest false flag of our generation, an “inside job” conspiracy organized by criminal elements of the Deep State, continues to do its job. From then to now it has served as a bedrock template for emotionally manipulating the public into accepting establishment geopolitical memes and storylines. We can’t talk about ending wars abroad, because the official Narrative says “we gotta stop those terrorists,” and smear any foreign nation independent of US/Western Empire dominance as being terrorist enablers.

From forever wars in Afghanistan then, to the Iraq WMD scam, to forever wars in Iran now, non-intervention has to be villainized by the uniparty, pretext for constant war must be maintained, domestic spying on everybody glorified, and all independent commentary questioning war hawk foreign policy marginalized or crushed. 9-11 established the playbook for other inside jobs and general legacy media cover-up—see the recent news reports confirmed by Haaretz and Egypt, exposing that Netanyahu already knew beforehand the October 7, 2023 attacks were coming. This classic video summary of the 9-11 deception still holds up after a quarter century:

Where did Nick Shirley come from, to go from nowhere, to national media prominence as a citizen journalist, who seems to have endless money and time to roam the country looking for Democratic fiscal fraud? Peter Sager explores Shirley’s attempts (this time) to bust Flushing day care programs. Is this being done to benefit Chinese interests, one of the biggest ethnic groups in Queens, who stand to get those government contracts? Tom Massie wonders why Shirley never concentrates on Republican funded junk as well? Perhaps the biggest problem is two-party statism, where both sides of an ongoing puppet show accuse each other of being crooks:

Join us for QL’s general meeting as the Libertarian Party of Queens County (LPQC) on September 12, 2026, at 12:00 noon. **NOTE ACTUAL START TIME**(the earlier August meeting time was a one-off). It will be held at our Astoria location, Stamatis Greek and Mediterranean Restaurant at 29-09 23rd Avenue (in the back area, menu details at stamatisrestaurant.net). We welcome guest host John Clifton (former LPQC and LPNY Chair) to discuss “25 years of Queens LP since 9/11, and the next 25 years,” where he will go over the history of the local LP in the first quarter of the 21st century, and what should unfold in the future.

Isn’t it interesting that the same “mainstream” statists who say they aren’t radical “free stuff for everybody” advocates like Mayor Mamdani or DSA, are increasingly crowing for “Medicare for all,” AKA free healthcare for everybody? Or saying “we’re the only country in the world without a universal healthcare program,” without noting the US is the only country that has a constitution that has lasted 240 years—so, should we junk it? Most of the world’s nations are not free, so should we join them? Reason goes over the failures of universal health plans in Canada and elsewhere: 

“Free healthcare is cool,” comedian Shane Gillis recently said on The Joe Rogan Experience. “We should have that.”

“You should treat the entire country like it’s a community,” Rogan replied. “If you had a community, would you want the sickest person to fucking die who could be very valuable if you could take care of them, and do you have the resources to take care of them?”

While support for “free” healthcare in the United States is not new—Harry Truman campaigned on universal health insurance in 1948, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) has popularized the “Medicare For All” slogan in recent years—the policy has received renewed interest of late. The Democratic Socialists of America have made universal healthcare “at no cost to individuals” a key component of their party’s expensive platform.

But it is not just political hopefuls who like the idea of universal healthcare; academics seem to as well. A recent study by the Yale School of Public Health claims that single-payer universal healthcare would save more than 100,000 lives a year, and would supposedly cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace. The study, which has not been peer-reviewed yet, appears to come to its conclusions by modeling a scenario that assumes cheaper pharmaceutical prices, less administrative overhead, reduced fraud, and fewer emergency visits.

But we do not need modeling of unrealistic scenarios to see what universal healthcare could do for Americans; we just need to look at countries that have already implemented this system.

In Canada, the closest country to the United States that has universal healthcare, healthcare spending is responsible for 12.7 percent of GDP, several percentage points higher than the average spend of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Despite this higher spending, the median waiting time between referral from a general practitioner and receiving treatment has hit 28.6 weeks, which is 208 percent longer than the wait Canadian patients would have expected in 1993. From April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024, almost 15,500 people died waiting for healthcare in Canada, according to data compiled by SecondStreet via a Freedom to Information Act request. In 2025, 9.1 percent of Canadians “expressed unmet needs for healthcare,” compared to the OECD average of 3.4 percent...More

That’s what Redacted wants to know in this extended interview with lawyer Lionel, reviewing the issues behind the recent Candace Owens debate with Andrew Wilson:

The Independent ponders the real politics ways (ancient or modern) of checking the power of the State:

Despite all the controversy surrounding Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the movie preserves one of the oldest and most enduring lessons of the Western political tradition: free societies survive only when power is constrained by constitutional rules, checks and balances, and the separation of powers.

In a film that runs nearly three hours, perhaps its most important political lesson is delivered in just a few minutes.

Before sailing past the island of the Sirens, Odysseus learns that their irresistible song is not a gift of wisdom but a deadly trap. Sailors who succumb to its enchanting melody steer their ships toward the rocks, where they meet their destruction.

Odysseus wants to hear the legendary song without falling victim to it. To accomplish this seemingly impossible task, he devises what economists recognize as an ingenious plan. He orders his crew to plug their ears with beeswax so they cannot hear the Sirens’ voices. He then commands them to tie him securely to the ship’s mast and not to release him under any circumstances until the danger has passed.

As the ship approaches the island, the Sirens begin to sing. Their promise of knowledge and glory overwhelms Odysseus. He struggles against the ropes, shouts at his crew, and desperately orders them to untie him. Yet the sailors obey his earlier instructions rather than his frantic commands. Instead of releasing him, they keep paddling until the ship safely sails beyond the Sirens’ reach.

The genius of the episode lies not in Odysseus’ willpower, but in his recognition that willpower alone is not enough. Before passing the island, he knows that his future self, seduced by temptation, cannot be trusted. His solution is to bind himself in advance and delegate authority to others who are unable—and unwilling—to yield to his wavering impulses.

Political scientists have long recognized this scene as a powerful metaphor for constitutional government. The ropes symbolize constitutional constraints, imposed in advance, that limit the discretion of those in power, who are inevitably seduced into misusing it. The sailors represent the separation of powers. They possess the authority to enforce the rules agreed upon in advance, even against the current wishes of those in power. Even more important, they cannot hear the Sirens themselves. Since they are insulated from the temptation, they are not tempted themselves to break the rules. Only under this ingenious arrangement does the ship survive and continue its journey….More