Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“Camarena was killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1985. At the time, he was a DEA agent living and operating in Mexico. In other words, he and other DEA agents were doing precisely what Trump wants to do today. They were waging war against the Guadalajara Cartel in an effort to stop the flow of massive amounts of marijuana into the United States. … That’s the principal motivating factor that caused them to kidnap, torture, and execute him. Except for one thing: Cartel leaders are ordinarily not dumb people. They had to know that retaliating against a single DEA agent would accomplish nothing and, in fact, would likely bring the entire wrath of the U.S. drug-war bureaucracy down on their heads. And that is precisely what happened.” (03/07/25)

https://www.fff.org/2025/03/07/dea-agent-kiki-camarena-died-for-nothing/

Source: Garrison Center
by Joel Schlosberg

“‘What noted conservative advocates jailing people to prevent the spread of their ideas?“ If David Friedman’s The Machinery of Freedom was written nowadays, he could challenge readers to think of one who doesn’t.” (03/06/25)

https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19403

Source: Niskanen Center
by Rick Hills & David Schleicher

“When ‘YIMBYs’ first appeared on the scene, it appeared to many as though they had come out of the blue. YIMBYism was a radical departure from the norm of American land use politics, in which the only groups involved were developers of specific projects, neighborhood groups opposed to growth, preservationists, and ‘housers’ interested in subsidized housing but without any interest — and some hostility — to broader housing growth. That there might be individuals and groups committed to increasing housing supply by reducing the strictness of land use controls on ideological groups was almost unthinkable. But it turns out YIMBYism is part of a long American tradition. From before the Founding through most of the 20th century, American property law promoted development, active use of land, broad ownership, and liquid property markets, far more than did the property law of our English forebearers.” (03/06/25)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/yimbyism-is-an-american-legal-tradition-heres-how-to-revive-it

Source: CounterPunch
by David S D’Amato

“Why does American society remain so deeply implicated in the enslavement of Black Americans? Slavery was never abolished in the United States, and today it enjoys widespread support among both Republicans and Democrats. Almost 800,000 people are subject to the conditions of prison slavery, but this estimate is almost certainly low, as the lack of reliable data means that it ‘excludes people confined in local jails or detention centers, juvenile correctional facilities, and immigration detention facilities.’ This system, supported and perpetuated by both halves of the ruling class, is an extension of the country’s history of racism and chattel slavery, a way to reinstitute slavery within a legal framework that loudly insists it has been abolished.” (03/06/25)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/06/americas-human-rights-crisis-prison-slavery/