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The Ten Planks of the “Freedom” Manifesto

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 13, 2003

Now, tell me if I have this right: It doesn’t really matter whether President Bush and his associates lied about Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction” or exaggerated the danger — even though the reason that most Americans supported the war was the threat of imminent attack from such weapons — ...

Our Lives and Liberty Turn on Moussaoui

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 11, 2003

There is little difficulty, and there is often very little gain, in declaring the existence of a right to personal freedom. The true difficulty is to secure its enforcement. The Habeas Corpus Acts have achieved this end, and have done for the liberty of Englishmen more than could have been achieved by any declaration of ...

Conservative Conundrum

by Sheldon Richman June 9, 2003

Conservatives become more inscrutable every day. They spend half their time praising the federal government for its miracles in Iraq (and, if they get their way, in Iran) and the other half of their time ridiculing the Democrats for thinking that the same federal government can provide medical ...

Security and the Right to Liberty

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 9, 2003

As everyone knows, the federal government has seized upon the September 11 terrorist attacks to expand its power to harass and spy on both immigrants and American citizens. “We must give up some liberty to protect our security,” government supporters often cry in an attempt to justify the federal expansion of power over our lives. Must ...

Insider-Trading Prohibitions Should Go out of Style

by Don Boudreaux June 6, 2003

One of the most essential distinctions made in Anglo-American law is between acts that are malum in se and acts that are malum prohibitum. According to the law dictionary at www.law.com, an act that is malum in se is “wrong in itself, in its very nature being ...

“There Was a Report of Guns and Drugs”

by Scott McPherson June 6, 2003

On May 16 New York City police officers dressed in riot gear broke down a woman’s door and exploded a concussion grenade in her Harlem home. The woman, 57-year-old Alberta Spruill, was unarmed. She died a few hours later of a heart attack. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and ...

Worrisome Wording

by Don Boudreaux June 4, 2003

Whose brainchild is “Click It or Ticket”? I wish I knew; I’d send him a dozen black roses. Whenever I drive past a highway sign heralding this admonition, I’m tempted to unbuckle my seatbelt in protest against being governed by people whose artlessness is exceeded only by their arrogance. ...

Wartime Confessions of a Talk-Radio Heretic

by Charles Goyette June 4, 2003

This speech was given before the Phoenix Economics Group in Phoenix, Arizona on March 19, 2003. I left my radio studio this evening to be here just as President Bush’s ultimatum to Saddam Hussein expired. The ...

Cuban Military Tribunals Reflect Contempt for Our Constitution

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 2, 2003

The federal government has announced that it intends to go forward with military tribunals for trials of suspected terrorists. The trials will not be held in the United States, however, but instead in Cuba, where military tribunals are also a central part of Fidel Castro’s “war on terrorism.” In fact, ...

The Rot at the Center of the Empire

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2003

The announcement that the U.S. government had relied on fake and false evidence in the attempt to secure approval of its invasion of Iraq was, by and large, met by a collective yawn from the American people, especially the members of Congress. Its just one more example of the depths of moral depravity to which our nation has fallen. Think ...

War and the Bankruptcy of the Bush Administration

by Richard M. Ebeling June 1, 2003

The war on terrorism and the war on Iraq have become the defining characteristics of the Bush administration and the Republican Party in general. Indeed, without the current war hysteria, President Bush and the Republicans have nothing to stand for and run on in next year’s congressional and presidential elections. Think back to August 2001, just a few weeks before ...

Recent Articles on Military Tribunals and the Padilla, Hamdi, and Moussaoui Cases

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 1, 2003

The following articles have been linked in FFF's Email Update: Crossing the Rubicon by Jacob G. Hornberger Future of Freedom Foundation Unjust, Unwise, UnAmerican Editorial Economist Rules ...