Civil Liberties & Privacy

Habeas Corpus: The Bulwark of Our Liberties

by U.S. Supreme Court September 1, 2008

...We begin with a brief account of the history and origins of the writ. Our account proceeds from two propositions. First, protection for the privilege of habeas corpus was one of the few safeguards of liberty specified in a Constitution that, at the outset, had no Bill of Rights. In the system conceived by the Framers the writ had ...

Farewell to Privacy

by Ridgway K. Foley Jr. September 1, 2008

States act predictably. An obscure professional official mutters an apparently innocuous statement to a small and equally obscure audience during a holiday period. In this fashion, states pretend full disclosure while simultaneously cloaking a forthcoming policy from critical insight and thoughtful appraisal. Consider the chilling utterance of one Donald Kerr during the Veterans Day 2007 weekend. Kerr, the principal deputy ...

FFF Conference Photos – Day 3, June 8, 2008

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 20, 2008

The following are photos from day 3 of The Future of Freedom Foundation's conference “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties.” Q & A with Sheldon Richman David Henderson ...

FFF Conference Photos – Day 2, June 7, 2008

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 18, 2008

The following are photos from day 2 of The Future of Freedom Foundation's conference “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties.” Anthony Gregory starts Day 2 Joanne Mariner takes ...

FFF Conference Photos – Day 1, June 6, 2008

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 13, 2008

The following are photos from day 1 of The Future of Freedom Foundation's conference “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties.” Opening Remarks by Foundation President Jacob Hornberger Robert ...

Photos from FFF’s Conference “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties” — Album (134 photos)

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2008

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Bulldozed by Eminent Domain

by George Leef May 1, 2008

Bulldozed by Carla T. Main (Encounter Books 2007); 276 pages; $27.95. In 2005, eminent domain became a hot national issue with all the attention focused on it because of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. New London. While property-rights scholars and libertarian activists ...

Technology and Government Power — A Deadly Cocktail for Freedom? (video)

by Bob Barr December 7, 2007

On June 4, 2007, Bob Barr gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

The Myth of a Risk-free Life

by Tibor R. Machan November 28, 2007

Skiers sometimes die, as do mountain climbers and motorcyclists and bicyclists, because what they do routinely is dangerous, risky. Indeed, there is very little in human life that does not entail some measure of risk, even fatal risk. When I moved into Silverado Canyon in Orange Country, CA, I did so ...

The CIA’s Detention, Interrogation, and Rendition Program (video)

by Joanne Mariner November 16, 2007

On June 3, 2007, Joanne Mariner gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Legal Idiocy and the War on Terror (video)

by Joseph Margulies November 9, 2007

On June 2, 2007, Joseph Margulies gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Do Elections Guarantee Freedom?

by James Bovard November 1, 2007

Elections are sometimes portrayed as practically giving people automatic remote control on the government. Elections kindly provide a chance for people to pre-program the government for the following years. The government will be based on the popular will, regardless of the ignorance of the populace or the duplicity of the government. President Lyndon Johnson declared in 1965 that the vote ...