“Because you wouldn’t comply.” #AbolishThePolice

Picked up a bundle of wooden stakes at Lowes. Bad news is, more logs to roll. Good news is, if we are suddenly attacked by vampires, we’ll be well armed for defending ourselves.

Up to 12 donors, $381 of the $2,000 budget raised for THE LIBERATOR online archive. To-day: 52 issues from Volume XIV (Jan. – Dec. 1844) prepped and now available in the online archive. Scanning some new issues from 1855. Thanks for all y’all’s support! http://ift.tt/1uGlRM4

Up to 12 donors, $381 of the $2,000 budget raised for THE LIBERATOR online archive. To-day: 52 issues from Volume XIV (Jan. – Dec. 1844) prepped and now available in the online archive. Scanning some new issues from 1855. Thanks for all y’all’s support! http://ift.tt/1uGlRM4

To-night: The Time Machine (1960 George Pal / David Duncan version)

Opelika Police Officer Phillip Hancock shot and nearly killed an unarmed man, who posed no actual threat to him at all, out on I-85 back in March. The police were called in to investigate the police, and then they got a secret grand jury proceeding to conclude that the police shouldn’t face any prosecution for opening fire on the unarmed victim of a car accident. “‘Under state law, police officers can use deadly force against an unarmed suspect if the officer believes the suspect could cause serious bodily harm to the officer or another person,’ [Opelika Police Chief John McEahern] stated. ‘There is no requirement that one has to be armed for an officer to use deadly force. If an officer has a reasonable belief that his life, or someone else’s life is in danger, THAT DECISION CANNOT BE QUESTIONED LATER by Monday morning quarterbacking.’” In the view of Opelika police, police (1) have an absolute right to open fire on unarmed men for which (2) they legally cannot be held accountable for their decisions to use violence. http://ift.tt/1leNPXG Do you feel safer? #AbolishThePolice

We’re at 11 donors, $351 of the $2,000 budget raised for THE LIBERATOR online archive (Thanks y’all!) I’m uploading a couple volumes from the later 1840s today to be prepped for adding to the public archives, and scanning some from the early 1850s. Maybe finishing another reel of the microfilm by lunchtime? http://ift.tt/1uGlRM4

We’re at 11 donors, $351 of the $2,000 budget raised for THE LIBERATOR online archive (Thanks y’all!) I’m uploading a couple volumes from the later 1840s today to be prepped for adding to the public archives, and scanning some from the early 1850s. Maybe finishing another reel of the microfilm by lunchtime? http://ift.tt/1uGlRM4

Just another friendly reminder: “thick conception of libertarianism” and “left-libertarianism” are not synonyms. Your gripe about left-libertarians is not actually a cogent argument against the conceptual claim that libertarianism should be thickly rather than thinly conceived. #PhilosophicalPSA

is logrolling.*