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How I Came to Investigate the Ian Freeman Case

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 9, 2024

Note: FFF will be at FreedomFest in Las Vegas starting tomorrow (Wednesday) through Sunday. Therefore, there will be no FFF Daily or my blog published for the rest of this week. We will resume publication on Monday, July 15. ***** I fully realize that my 3-part article “The Unjust Conviction of an Innocent Man: The Ian ...

The Unjust Conviction of an Innocent Man: The Ian Freeman Case, Part 3

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 3, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 As I pointed out in parts 1 and 2 of this article, the main thrust of the U.S. government’s case against Ian Freeman involved money-laundering and conspiracy to launder money. The money-laundering charge came after the undercover IRS agent Pavel Prilotsky posed as a drug dealer in an attempt ...

The Unjust Conviction of an Innocent Man: The Ian Freeman Case, Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 2, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In 2008, a person by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto revolutionized the monetary world with the invention of bitcoin, the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency. Concerned about the omnipotent control over money that governments all over the world wielded and the massive violations of financial privacy that came with such control, ...

Why Not Eliminate Taxes on All Income?

by Laurence M. Vance July 2, 2024

During a campaign stop in Nevada early last month, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised that if elected, there would be no more federal tax on tips. Said Trump: “For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very happy, because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes ...

Tyranny and the Homelessness Problem

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2024

I grew up in Laredo, Texas, which was the poorest city in the United States based on per capita income. The poverty in Laredo was so extensive that people in some parts of town actually lived in shacks. Yet, there was never a homelessness problem in Laredo. Yes, people lived in dilapidated housing, but at least they had a ...

Buy a Bible, Become a Terror Suspect

by James Bovard July 1, 2024

Americans are familiar with the Miranda warning that anything that arrestees say can be used against them in a court of law. But the Biden administration secretly created a new tripwire: Anything you purchase can be used against you. And if you didn’t want to be categorized as a “lone wolf” potential terrorist, you never should have bought that ...

Fiscal Insanity

by Laurence M. Vance July 1, 2024

Created in 1973, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) serves as the conservative caucus of House Republicans. Its purpose is “to bring like-minded House members together to promote a strong, principled legislative agenda that will limit government, strengthen our national defense, boost America’s economy, preserve traditional values and balance our budget.” The RSC “ensures that conservatives have a powerful voice ...

The Political Economy of Natural versus Contrived Inequalities

by Richard M. Ebeling July 1, 2024

To discuss the political economy of natural versus contrived inequalities requires some explanation of what is meant by “natural,” “contrived,” and “inequalities.” The use of the word “natural” has had a long, if sometimes controversial, history in economics over the last two and half centuries. When using this term, the French Physiocrats in the eighteenth century meant that along ...

“Who Will Build the Roads?” Part 2

by Wendy McElroy July 1, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 The United States Pharmacopeia is updated and published to this day. The organization has remained a privately funded nonprofit for over two centuries, but it does now currently cooperate closely with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It is interesting to note, however, that it took the government 86 years ...

The Unjust Conviction of an Innocent Man: The Ian Freeman Case, Part 1

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 28, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 If one googles the name “Ian Freeman” and “bitcoin,” the result will be hundreds  of articles describing Freeman as a “fraudster.” That’s because immediately after  Freeman’s sentencing in a criminal case in a U.S. District Court in New Hampshire  on October 2, 2023, the U.S. Attorney’s office in ...

How the Police State Acclimates Us to Being Modern-Day Slaves

by John W. Whitehead June 27, 2024

“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all ...

Timely Lessons About Tyranny from the Father of the Constitution

by John W. Whitehead June 21, 2024

“Take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.” — James Madison James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become mere “parchment barrier,” words on paper ignored by successive generations of Americans. How right he was. Although Madison initially felt that the inclusion of a bill of rights in the ...