Married to the Badge, Living on the Edge

https://ericfoltin.com/2026/02/15/married-to-the-badge-living-on-the-edge/

This is interesting. The #Texas Penal Code makes no mention of conversion therapy on minors, yet § 35A.02(a)(7)(B) forbids providers from claiming fraudulent services. With no accredited provider seriously recommending conversion therapy, the statute thus presumably proscribes it as a medical treatment, rendering any new law redundant, not to mention the risk of said laws extending to counseling—an obvious constitutional no-no. (1/3)

#FirstAmendment #LGBTQRights #overcriminalization #quackery

Welcome to 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher
Wondering what to expect from the government in 2025?
So far, it looks like it will be more of the same ill-advised, costly, greedy, taxpayer-funded, dunderheaded power grabs, saber-rattling, graft, #corruption , and make-works programming that leaves us no better off than where we started.
Indeed, we’ve been down this road so many times before that there should be no surprise when, no matter who occupies the White House, we find ourselves subjected to more of the same when it comes to the erosion of civil liberties and the increasing power of the #government and its corporate partners-in-crime.
The following topics from the article:
- Digital #prisons
- #Precrime
- Mandatory quarantines
- Mental health assessments by non-medical personnel
- Tracking #chips for citizens
- #Military involvement domestically
- Government #censorship of anything it classifies as #disinformation
- Threat assessments
- #War on #cash
- Expansive surveillance
- Militarized #police
- Police shootings of unarmed citizens
- False flags and #terrorist attacks
- Endless #wars to keep America’s military’s empire employed
- Erosions of private property
- #Overcriminalization
- Strip searches and the denigration of bodily integrity
- #Censorship
- #Taxation Without Any Real Representation

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/welcome_to_2025_where_your_freedoms_go_to_die

#Freedom #USA #tyrany #Trump #EU #Europe #anarchy #anarchism

Hello! I thought I'd do a belated #introduction now that the bird site is imploding.

I'm a white-collar defense attorney in Houston, and I previously worked in the Houston Federal Public Defender's office in both the trial and appeals sections.

On here, I tend to focus on federal #CriminalJustice, with an emphasis on Fifth Circuit decisions, #overcriminalization, the #FourthAmendment, and federal sentencing.