12/03/08
Can You See Them Now? - Congressman Ron Paul Can!
By Ted Lang © 2004

How many articles have jumped out of your computer display screen and grabbed your attention screaming: “America is a police state?!” Did you believe those accounts, or did you rely rather on the lay back style of Rush Limbaugh who “doesn’t believe in conspiracy theories?” Have you been comforted by FOXNews and accepted the way laws have radically changed, as have the attitudes towards US displayed by our government bureaus and police?

Have you accepted the “just routine” explanations from police at road stops and checkpoints where you are assumed guilty of either drunk driving or some other crime such as failing to have a current validated government form in your wallet or affixed to your windshield? The general public is now generally guilty of any and all crimes until proven innocent. And all of US have no one else to blame but ourselves for allowing whining, wailing, hand-wrenching Mommies Against This, That and Whatever that started US down this police state path. (Read the rest here)

Libertarian Commentary on The Day's News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2004

From Freedom News Daily, 11 AUG. 2004 AND from RRND (see below)

Sunni's got lots of news today, and I have lots of comments! As usual, the views expressed herein are mine, not necessarily those of FND, FMN, TPoL, or anyone associated with those organizations or publications.* Please be sure to support all these organizations, though, as they don't just have "good intentions" but are actually doing good as well. Tell others about them, too - we can't just preach to the choir! To subscribe to FND, click to: http://free-market.net/news/

1- Homeland Security puts happy face on flyers' privacy intrusions
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
My personal advice remains unchanged: don't fly. It's not just about privacy, but about the ability to defend yourself en route and when you get to wherever you are going. This amounts to putting lace skirts on a panzer (tank), or curtains on a battlecruiser.

(Read the rest here)

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The Trouble with Talk Radio
by Christopher Westley

A recent article of mine on a public sector scandal, this one in Milwaukee, brought several e-mails from friends and strangers telling me that it was read and discussed on WTMJ-AM in that city by its weekday morning host, Charles Sykes. WTMJ is Milwaukee’s highest rated talk station, and while I appreciated the plug, I was not sure if that is the sort of station that friends of liberty need to be associated with.

That’s because that station, like so many across the U.S., have adopted the pro-war, pro-Bush nationalist format that dominates AM radio today, robbing it of much of the diversity that once characterized it. It is a marketing model that appeases small government conservatives (who have always favored radio) by telling them that big government really isn’t all that bad—as long as the right guys can control it.

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Free "The Hunter"

Free Hunter: Collateral Damage
by Carl Bussjaeger

American Independence Day has come and gone, along with the traditional boom and glare of fireworks that bring joy to many kids, young and old.

Picture two such of the younger children: Adorable little girls just six and four years old respectively, Mikayla and Brittany. Imagine their anticipation as the big day approaches and they look forward not only to the beloved fireworks, but also to the arrival of their favorite uncle Jeff, whom they haven't seen in months.

Now picture the adorable little girls' disappointment because a suited goon in Ohio wouldn't let Uncle Jeff come see his family. Yes, Mikayla and Brittany are just two more victims of the Ashland County, Ohio prosecutor's office.

Call them "collateral damage," more innocents caught in the cross-fire as the run-amuck prosecutors pursue their vendetta against Jeffrey "Hunter" Jordan. (Read the rest here)

 

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