Author of From Patriot to Pirate | Assoc. Prof. & MCJ Program Director @MTSU | Retired U.S. Army CID Special Agent | History × Justice
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The Two Minutes Hate never ended. We just gave it Wi-Fi.
Orwell published 1984 on this date in 1949. Seventy-seven years on, the book still has one piece nobody wants to talk about: the daily ritual where citizens gathered to scream at whoever the state designated that morning.
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You Made the Right Call… But Can You Defend It? youtube.com/shorts/43EuDn34u… via @YouTube
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Spent 20 years Army MP/CID. Here's what I know: domestic extremists are harder to track than street gangs or OMG/Bikers — no leader, no pattern, and now they're running drones, ghost guns, and crypto. The threat nobody's prepared for. #GATM #MTGM #gangs
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Apr 30
Spent 20 years as a U.S. Army CID Special Agent. Here's what I know: gang members enlist to train, then take that training home, and most cops don't recognize the tactics when they see them. Gangs. Military. The overlap nobody wants to talk about. #GATM
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Apr 30
We talk about military-trained gang members like they're a recent threat. Sam Mason was doing it in 1800. War gives men skills. The frontier gave him opportunity. The result? America's first documented MTGM. Read history. carterfsmith.com/the-america… #CriminalJustice #AmericanHistory
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1 Aug 2025
My academic analysis of the evolving landscape of policing research is available on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication…
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13 May 2025
Check out my latest article: Leveraging the Battlefield:
Military-Trained Gang
Members Across History linkedin.com/pulse/leveragin… via @LinkedIn
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13 May 2025
Check out my latest article: Title: Practical Use of AI in the Criminal Justice Classroom: Ethical Tools, Real Applications, and Future Readiness linkedin.com/pulse/title-pra… via @LinkedIn
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25 Mar 2025
Interview on the article with JAR Dispatches 03/23/2025: Carter F. Smith: Samuel Mason: Revolutionary ... youtu.be/rzjhkX7qGWc?si=55Dp… via @YouTube
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23 Mar 2025
This isn’t rebellion for the sake of noise.
It’s about remembering where the authority actually rests—not in titles or buildings, but in people.
Not just some of them. All of them.
Including you.
So let’s begin. Part 6
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23 Mar 2025
Don’t read this like it’s a sermon. It isn’t.
It’s a flare—fired into the dark to see who’s still out there.
If it hits home, say so. If it doesn’t, speak up. But don’t go quiet.
Because silence is what broken systems count on to stay intact.
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23 Mar 2025
This is common sense. Not as a phrase, but as a demand. We speak plainly here. We reject the idea that the average person is too weak or too confused to participate in self-government. The only requirement is honesty—and the will to act once the fog is cleared.
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23 Mar 2025
No officeholder, no law, no institution is above the reach of a thinking people.
This is not a theory paper. It’s a torch. If it lights a fire in you, good. If it offends you, better—because truth usually does before it liberates.
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23 Mar 2025
The real power of a free people is not in their anger but in their clarity. Once the truth is plainly spoken, it spreads faster than fear. That was the lesson in 1776, and it holds today.
Government is not sacred. Systems are not permanent. Part 2
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23 Mar 2025
Things are not working. That much is obvious. But here’s the real problem: we’ve been trained to think we’re too small to change it. That our voice is drowned out. That things are too complicated, too corrupt, or too far gone.
That’s a lie.
And it’s time to say so.
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18 Mar 2025
Had a great time on the Dispatches podcast talking about my recent article in the Journal of the American Revolution! Listen here - YouTube link soon. podbean.com/ew/pb-a9f22-1846…
On many platforms - E292: Carter F. Smith: Samuel Mason: Revolutionary Turncoat or Opportunistic Pirate?
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8 Mar 2025
Another article on Sam Mason’s exploits with cross-border crime in Small Wars Journal. Check it out! smallwarsjournal.com/2025/03…
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