Civil Liberties & Privacy

The War on Telephone Privacy

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 31, 2007

A perfect example of the integrated threat that U.S. foreign policy and federal domestic regulations pose to the freedom, privacy, and well-being of the American people is the current telecommunications controversy. Soon after the 9/11 attacks, the feds approached various U.S. telephone companies and asked them to illegally share private information about their customers. The ...

The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed (video)

by Ivan Eland September 28, 2007

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

Civil Liberties in Wartime (Video)

by Andrew Napolitano June 28, 2007

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano joined FOX News Channel in May 1998, and currently serves as a senior judicial analyst. He appears daily on The Big Story with John Gibson, co-hosts FOX and Friends once a week and is a regular on The O’Reilly Factor. Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court Judge in the history ...

Bush’s Tyranny Thwarted — For Now

by Sheldon Richman June 22, 2007

The news media seemed too preoccupied with Paris Hilton’s detention to notice, but a U.S. appeals court last week struck a major blow for liberty. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Bush administration may not declare a U.S. resident, whether a citizen or not, an “enemy combatant,” ...

Dare We Call It Tyranny?

by Sheldon Richman June 15, 2007

The American peoples response to President Bushs war on terror should be terror. The administration, sometimes with Congresss complicity: is preparing for a 50-year stay in Iraq, complete with 14 military bases and an embassy larger than the Vatican. (Can there be a better recruiting program for al Qaeda?) has abolished habeas corpus, the principle that for centuries has protected people ...

Civil Liberties in Wartime, Part 4 of 4 (video)

by Andrew Napolitano June 4, 2007

Civil Liberties in Wartime, Part 3 of 4 (Video)

by Andrew Napolitano June 3, 2007

Civil Liberties in Wartime, Part 2 of 4 (Video)

by Andrew Napolitano June 2, 2007

Saving the Republic, Resisting the Imperial Temptation (video)

by Doug Bandow June 2, 2007

Doug Bandow is a Washington-based political writer and policy analyst and Robert A. Taft Fellow with the American Conservative Defense Alliance. He served as a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and as a senior policy analyst in the 1980 Reagan for President campaign. He has been widely published in leading newspapers and periodicals and has appeared on numerous radio ...

Civil Liberties in Wartime, Part 1 of 4 (Video)

by Andrew Napolitano June 1, 2007

Thank You, Ron Paul

by Sheldon Richman May 18, 2007

Ron Paul, a Republican congressman running for president, is saying what needs to be said about the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq war. Clearly, his rivals and the news media can’t handle the truth. At the most recent Republican debate Paul not only repeated his opposition to the illegal and unconstitutional war, ...

The Real Tragedy of Waco

by Glenn Jacobs April 23, 2007

April 19 marked the 14-year anniversary of the BATF-FBI massacre of the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas. Some might say that the use of the word “massacre” is harsh, instead opting to call it a “tragedy.” After close examination of the events of April ...