City noses way up surveillance road, with Chicago’s secret lists lighting way
Officials monitor cameras at a Kentucky criminal intelligence center, or fusion center, run by Kentucky state government. (Photo Kentucky Office of Homeland Security) Chattanooga city government’s executive branch is doing what the national executive branch does — impose top-down mass surveillance upon residents, with the poor receiving the largest dosage of this progressive benefit. In […]
Billy’s bad day; best way teen can deal with bully officials, cops
Commercial government most frequently attaches itself to the working and traveling citizenry on the public right of way, prompting encounters that remind us of our servitude to the enterprise state. This truck is on private property — a store parking lot. (Photo David Tulis) The best way to tell boys about how men defend constitutional […]
City, unable to demilitarize, gives cops more body armor
The Chattanooga police department runs a Lenco Bearcat armored car and troop carrier such as this one. (Photos Lenco) Chattanooga is buying more personal armor protection for officers such as this one, engaging in urban warfare from the top hatch of a Bearcat war wagon such as that owned by city government. An advertising video […]
20 reasons Democrats more dangerous than Muslim terrorists
DNC — dilation & curettage. The Democrat National Committee and its party unstintingly support the slaughter of the unborn, but not only Caucasian boys and girls such as these. Equal treatment for black babies. They are more dangerous to America then “radical Islamic extremist terrorists” and they are meeting in Philly this week. Democrats, the party […]
Constitution envisions militia, not militarized police
A police car, part of a paramilitary organization serving the executive branch of city government, runs its lights in Chattanooga. (Photo Wrcbtv.com) Constitutional attorney Edwin Vieira says it is mistaken to argue that police departments be disarmed, as free market commentators such as Dr. Gary North have suggested. Constitutional government has the solution to police […]
Soddy-Daisy boots fluoride to purify water, boost public health
Chiesa Smith, right, and Bernadette Martin give an interview to Steve Johnson, a reporter with the Chattanooga Times Free Press, after lobbying to bring an end to water fluoridation in North Hamilton County, Tenn. Mrs. Martin’s children are, from left, Stella, Kaia and Felix. (Photo David Tulis) Jim Farmer, left, wins near-unanimous favor for his […]
Commercial, vehicle ‘crimes’ on Castile’s rap sheet aren’t moral evils at all
Diamond Reynolds meets with the press after police shot into her car, killed her boyfriend, Philando Castile, in cold blood and put her in jail without charge. Immediately after police shoot down a citizen, departments and the press begin an effort to discredit the victim by exposing his criminal past, as if a rap sheet […]
Soddy-Daisy tries to make roadblocks avoid offense to constitution
Jeff Gann, acting police chief in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., says the town conducts six to 10 roadblocks a year. (Photo David Tulis) A Soddy Daisy roadblock July 2, a Friday night, was designed to comply with a court ruling and constitutional protections that seek to reduce the offense of roadblocks against travelers’ fourth amendment rights. The […]
To hold police accountable, don’t give them immunity
A police officer stops a traveler to enforce the state’s commercial motoring regime on members of the public. (Photo wrcbtv.com) How could that happen in this country? In the wake of the tragic deaths of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Eric Harris, Freddie Gray, and others at the hands of police officers, it’s a question that many Americans are […]
Vacation Bible schools try to fill gaps
These website screengrabs show pitches of Chattanooga churches for VBS customers. Churches such as Mile Straight Baptist in Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., offer summer Bible schools and camps to encourage conversion and Christian growth. (Photo David Tulis) Around town are billboards and canvas banners for churches providing Vacation Bible school. These gatherings last anywhere from three to […]