 
|
This board is closed to new users and new posts. Thank you to all our great mods and users over the years. Details here.
|
|
The Free Talk Live BBS
Profile of feedmeliberty
Show Posts Topics
Show Posts
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
Pages: [1]
1
General / Privacy of sons and daughters?
« on: April 26, 2011, 08:26:55 AM »
Stossel had an interesting guest who was upset that his college-student son was caught by the university using heroin and some time later died of an overdose. He said the school should have notified him when the son was caught so he could have tried to save him from his addiction. Who's right? I thought it also made for an interesting hypothetical question too.
2
The Show / New Hampshire providing ID for Names other than Legal Names?
« on: September 29, 2010, 10:23:02 PM »
Hey all, a few weeks ago on FTL some caller said they were able to go to a NH DMV and obtain a license for a fictitious name and it was allowed under some legal code they referenced. Does anyone have any details on that or the specifics? Or can even point to the date of the episode?
Thanks!
Thanks!
3
The Show / Puke was awesome Monday
« on: June 02, 2010, 08:58:11 PM »
He's a funny guy. My vote to come back for more guest hosting!
4
General / Boston Liberty Lovers: Liberty Drinks! Wed 5/19 @ Rattlesnake
« on: May 02, 2010, 09:01:12 PM »
http://libertydrinks.eventbrite.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=117818621581595
Young (at heart) professionals and students for liberty - join us at the Rattlesnake Bar (pun intended) May 19 for drinks with fellow liberty minded friends in an informal atmosphere! This is not your grandfather's Tea Party.
Invite a friend or four. If you are new to the ideas of liberty we want you to come to with an open mind or a sharp mind for debate.
We're planning to launch a more active liberty social community here in Boston and would enjoy hearing your ideas about:
#social events
#activism
#spreading ideas
#liberty education
Maybe we can get a group together to head to PorcFest. We look forward to meeting you.
Parking or Public Transport
Metered street parking until 8pm or parking around Common/Public Garden. Near Arlington Green Line Stop.
http://libertydrinks.eventbrite.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=117818621581595
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=117818621581595
Young (at heart) professionals and students for liberty - join us at the Rattlesnake Bar (pun intended) May 19 for drinks with fellow liberty minded friends in an informal atmosphere! This is not your grandfather's Tea Party.
Invite a friend or four. If you are new to the ideas of liberty we want you to come to with an open mind or a sharp mind for debate.
We're planning to launch a more active liberty social community here in Boston and would enjoy hearing your ideas about:
#social events
#activism
#spreading ideas
#liberty education
Maybe we can get a group together to head to PorcFest. We look forward to meeting you.
Parking or Public Transport
Metered street parking until 8pm or parking around Common/Public Garden. Near Arlington Green Line Stop.
http://libertydrinks.eventbrite.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=117818621581595
5
General / Ideas for civil disobedience
« on: January 12, 2010, 09:46:37 PM »
I'd like to get a list of ideas for civil disobedience going here. What things have you done or known friends to do or been impressed with? I really like the idea of opening up a homeless shelter without permits. It really strikes at the heart of how evil the state is.
6
The Show / 2 Sources? Govt as biggest polluter & Supreme Court: gov no obligation protect
« on: December 28, 2009, 02:27:35 PM »
Hello - curious about 2 oft cited items - if anyone could point me to some good sources...
1. Ian/Mark say that the US government and in particular the military is the biggest polluter. I'm curious how this is measured...
2. Ian says many Supreme Court decisions show that the government has no obligation to protect or provide its citizens with anything. Any overview of these decisions?
1. Ian/Mark say that the US government and in particular the military is the biggest polluter. I'm curious how this is measured...
2. Ian says many Supreme Court decisions show that the government has no obligation to protect or provide its citizens with anything. Any overview of these decisions?
7
General / Bundle of Liberty Feeds - Please Suggest Additions or Pass On
« on: December 20, 2009, 02:13:21 PM »
Rather than start another blog I decided to spread the message of all the great content that's already out there.
Feel free to start your own aggregator of feeds. Here is one I setup at
http://feedmeliberty.ning.com/
Current list
- 911truth.org
123 Real Change
21st Century British Nationalism
Acumen Fund Blog
Advocates for Self-Government - Freedom Circle Directory
Advocates for Self-Government: New Year's resolutions from former ...
Alan Keyes is LOYAL TO LIBERTY
Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
Allan Sloan - Deals -- Allan Sloan on Wall Street and Investing ...
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
America: Freedom to Fascism
American Banking News
American Minute
AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online
Anarchy In Your Head
Antiwar.com Original
Anything Peaceful
Atlas Shrugs
Audit the Fed
Austro-Athenian Empire
Big Government
Big Government
Big Head Press Story Updates
Big Hollywood
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL PODCAST | PBS
BlackListed News
blog of bile
Bob Barr 2008 Blog
Breitbart.tv
bubbleinfo.com
Bull! Not bull
Bureaucrash - Join the Resistance
bytestyle.tv
C-SPAN Archives Syndication - Recent Book TV
Calculated Risk
Campaign For Liberty Blog
Campaign For Liberty Featured Articles
Cato @ Liberty
Cato Daily Commentary
Cato Daily Podcast
Cato Headlines
Cato Institute Event Podcast
Cato Media Updates
Cato Recent Op-eds
Cato Unbound
Cato Upcoming Events
Cato Weekly Dispatch
Cato Weekly Video
Center for a Stateless Society
Chris Martenson Blogs
Citizens Against Government Waste Stories
Climate Audit [Welcome to our new home!]
Club for Growth
Comments for The Peace Freedom & Prosperity Movement
Common Tragedies
Congressman Ron Paul's Press Releases
Congressman Ron Paul's Speeches and Statements
Consent Of The Governed
Constitution
Counterknowledge.com
Counterpunch
Cryptome
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.rss Format)
Daily Brickbats
Daniel Hannan's blog listings.
der Blaustrumpf
Dissident Voice
DollarCollapse.com
DownsizeDC.org
Environmental Economics
Exposing Faux Capitalism
Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance -
Farm Wars
Federal Jack
Financial Sense
Financial Sense Newshour
FIRE - News
FOFOA
Forbes.com Author: Yaron Brook
Foundation for Economic Education
Free Association
Free Keene
Free Mind Media
Free Minds Feed
Free Talk Live
Freedom Blogs
Freedom Politics : News
Freedom Watch Show Ideas on UserVoice
Freedom Watch With The Judge
Freedom Watch With The Judge
Freedomain Radio - The Total Feed
Freedomain: The Logic of Personal and Political Freedom
FreedomRide.us
FreeEnergyTimes
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
GCN-Dr. Katherine Albrecht Show Podcast
GCN-Radio Liberty Podcast
GCN-The Nutrimedical Report Podcast
Gerald Celente News Blog
Glenn Beck - The 912 Project
Global Guerrillas
GlobalResearch.ca
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee - Exposing the long-term manipulation of the gold market
GOLDSEEK RADIO
Government Bytes
Health Freedom Alliance
Home
Homeland Stupidity
How to Flex Your Rights During Police Encounters
Info, Comments, Opinions and Facts About Goldman Sachs
infowarsnews at Yahoo! Groups
InfoWarsTV.com-Spreading The TRUTH-One Video At A Time
Institute for Energy Research
Institute for Justice
International Society for Individual Liberty » Blog Archive ...
iTulip.com
iTulip.com: The Contrary View of the Markets
Jack E. Robinson for United States Senate - Latest News
JBS News Feed
Jesse's Café Américain
John Stossel
John Stossel's Take
Judicial Watch -
Kerry Howley
Knowledge Problem
Ladies of Liberty Alliance
Larken Rose
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)
LewRockwell.com
Libertarian Papers » Latest Articles
Libertarian Party blogs
Libertarianism, from A to Z
Liberty Conspiracy
Liberty Forest
Liberty Maven» Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time
Lost Liberty Café
LRN Updates Google Group
Mackinac Center Commentaries
Manhattan Institute Articles
Marginal Revolution
Market-Based Management®
Mass LPA
Massachusetts's Campaign For Liberty
MasterResource
maxkeiser.com — Finance. Markets. Economics. Scandal.
mercatus (mercatus) on Twitter
Mercola Natural Health Articles
Michael Shanklin | Blog Talk Radio Feed
Mises Economics Blog
Mises Institute Daily Articles
Mises Institute Media
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism
Nathan's Economic Edge
National Taxpayers Union and National Taxpayers Union Foundation - RSS Feeds
New Hampshire Liberty Alliance
No One Has To Die Tomorrow
No Treason
Nouriel Roubini's Global EconoMonitor
NWOTruth
Oath Keepers
Pajamas Media
Patrick J. *Buchanan* - Official Website
Persistence of Vision
Peter Schiff News Blog
PFP Movement Radio | Blog Talk Radio Feed
PGPF Blog
Pioneer Institute Blog
Popular libertarian Bookmarks on Delicious
Popular liberty Bookmarks on Delicious
Positive Liberty » Advocates for Self-Government
Prison Planet Podcast
PrisonPlanet Forum
Pro Libertate
Pyramids of Control
RA - The Feed
RagingDebate.com / Discussions
RealClearPolitics - Articles
Reason Foundation -
Reason Foundation - Out of Control Policy Blog
Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1
Reason.tv -
Repeal the 17th Amendment
Republic Broadcasting Network
Republican Liberty Caucus
Retake Congress
Ridley Report - The New Hampshire revolution is now televised
ROGUEGOVERNMENT.COM
Ron Paul .com
Ron Paul Library
Ron Paul War Room
Safehaven
Salon: Glenn Greenwald
School Sucks Podcast: The END of Public Education
Sean Ryan for Boston City Council At-Large
Seasteading Institute - Comments for "Libertarian Island: No Rules, Just Rich Dudes"
Socio-Economics History Blog
Steve Keen's Debtwatch
Students For Liberty
Sweetness & Light
Taki’s Magazine
Tax Foundation - Tax Foundation's "Tax Policy Blog"
Tax Foundation - Tax Foundation's "Tax Policy Blog"
The Adventures of Citizen X
The Alex Jones Show
The Austrian Economists
The Ayn Rand Institute Stories
The Baseline Scenario
The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
The Catherine Austin Fitts Blog
The Daily Crux
The Economic Way of Thinking
The FOIA blog
The Fraser Institute - NEWS RELEASES
The Free Talk Live BBS
The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty
The Future of Freedom Foundation
The Infowarrior - Jason Bermas
The Lew Rockwell Show
The Merk Mutual Funds
The Mises Community
The New American
The Peace Freedom & Prosperity Movement
The Real News Network
The Robinson Report
The SPPI Blog
The UK Libertarian
The washington times Blogs: 'Water Cooler'
Tom Woods
Trial Logs
TruthNews.us
Twitter / AbolishTheFed
Twitter / acamnet
Twitter / andylevy
Twitter / Antiwarcom
Twitter / biggovt
Twitter / blogofbile
Twitter / BostonTeaParty
Twitter / BreakTheMatrix
Twitter / C4Liberty
Twitter / feedmeliberty
Twitter / FreeStateNH
Twitter / gardgoldsmith
Twitter / ierenergy
Twitter / JackERobinson
Twitter / JohnStossel
Twitter / Judgenap
Twitter / ladiesofliberty
Twitter / lewrockwell
Twitter / libertarianpprs
Twitter / LibertyMaven
Twitter / mises
Twitter / PatrickBuchanan
Twitter / pennjillette
Twitter / RandPaulSenate
Twitter / rebeleconomist
Twitter / RonPaulcom
Twitter / schiffforsenate
Twitter / shellyroche
Twitter / sibeledmonds
Twitter / TCTaxTeaParty
Twitter / TheAdvocates
Twitter / TheLibertyShip
Twitter / Wiltster
United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government
Upcoming: Freedom Events Events
Uploads by americanfreemedia
Uploads by BerkmanCenter
Uploads by campaignforliberty
Uploads by DrLenHorowitz
Uploads by FreeKeene
Uploads by freestatereport
Uploads by HR1207auditthefed
Uploads by IERDC
Uploads by LibertarianParty
Uploads by lonelantern
Uploads by marcaeld
Uploads by misesmedia
Uploads by Monsanto720p
Uploads by motorhomediaries
Uploads by PeterSchiffChannel
Uploads by PeterSchiffTV
Uploads by ReasonTV
Uploads by RobinsonforSenate
Uploads by robpatozz
Uploads by RonPaul2008dotcom
Uploads by TheAlexJonesChannel
Uploads by TheAntiTerrorist
Uploads by TheFederalistSociety
Uploads by ThemisTrading
Uploads by wearechange
Wall Street Unspun with Peter Schiff
Watts Up With That?
Wayne Madsen Report
We The People Congress.org / blog
WEB OF DEBT BLOG
Welcome To Jim Sinclair's MineSet
Wheels Off Liberty
Whistleblower Protection Blog
Will Grigg's Liberty Minutes
Year of Youth - Project 2012
Zero Hedge
Feel free to start your own aggregator of feeds. Here is one I setup at
http://feedmeliberty.ning.com/
Current list
- 911truth.org
123 Real Change
21st Century British Nationalism
Acumen Fund Blog
Advocates for Self-Government - Freedom Circle Directory
Advocates for Self-Government: New Year's resolutions from former ...
Alan Keyes is LOYAL TO LIBERTY
Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
Allan Sloan - Deals -- Allan Sloan on Wall Street and Investing ...
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
America: Freedom to Fascism
American Banking News
American Minute
AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online
Anarchy In Your Head
Antiwar.com Original
Anything Peaceful
Atlas Shrugs
Audit the Fed
Austro-Athenian Empire
Big Government
Big Government
Big Head Press Story Updates
Big Hollywood
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL PODCAST | PBS
BlackListed News
blog of bile
Bob Barr 2008 Blog
Breitbart.tv
bubbleinfo.com
Bull! Not bull
Bureaucrash - Join the Resistance
bytestyle.tv
C-SPAN Archives Syndication - Recent Book TV
Calculated Risk
Campaign For Liberty Blog
Campaign For Liberty Featured Articles
Cato @ Liberty
Cato Daily Commentary
Cato Daily Podcast
Cato Headlines
Cato Institute Event Podcast
Cato Media Updates
Cato Recent Op-eds
Cato Unbound
Cato Upcoming Events
Cato Weekly Dispatch
Cato Weekly Video
Center for a Stateless Society
Chris Martenson Blogs
Citizens Against Government Waste Stories
Climate Audit [Welcome to our new home!]
Club for Growth
Comments for The Peace Freedom & Prosperity Movement
Common Tragedies
Congressman Ron Paul's Press Releases
Congressman Ron Paul's Speeches and Statements
Consent Of The Governed
Constitution
Counterknowledge.com
Counterpunch
Cryptome
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.rss Format)
Daily Brickbats
Daniel Hannan's blog listings.
der Blaustrumpf
Dissident Voice
DollarCollapse.com
DownsizeDC.org
Environmental Economics
Exposing Faux Capitalism
Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance -
Farm Wars
Federal Jack
Financial Sense
Financial Sense Newshour
FIRE - News
FOFOA
Forbes.com Author: Yaron Brook
Foundation for Economic Education
Free Association
Free Keene
Free Mind Media
Free Minds Feed
Free Talk Live
Freedom Blogs
Freedom Politics : News
Freedom Watch Show Ideas on UserVoice
Freedom Watch With The Judge
Freedom Watch With The Judge
Freedomain Radio - The Total Feed
Freedomain: The Logic of Personal and Political Freedom
FreedomRide.us
FreeEnergyTimes
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
GCN-Dr. Katherine Albrecht Show Podcast
GCN-Radio Liberty Podcast
GCN-The Nutrimedical Report Podcast
Gerald Celente News Blog
Glenn Beck - The 912 Project
Global Guerrillas
GlobalResearch.ca
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee - Exposing the long-term manipulation of the gold market
GOLDSEEK RADIO
Government Bytes
Health Freedom Alliance
Home
Homeland Stupidity
How to Flex Your Rights During Police Encounters
Info, Comments, Opinions and Facts About Goldman Sachs
infowarsnews at Yahoo! Groups
InfoWarsTV.com-Spreading The TRUTH-One Video At A Time
Institute for Energy Research
Institute for Justice
International Society for Individual Liberty » Blog Archive ...
iTulip.com
iTulip.com: The Contrary View of the Markets
Jack E. Robinson for United States Senate - Latest News
JBS News Feed
Jesse's Café Américain
John Stossel
John Stossel's Take
Judicial Watch -
Kerry Howley
Knowledge Problem
Ladies of Liberty Alliance
Larken Rose
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)
LewRockwell.com
Libertarian Papers » Latest Articles
Libertarian Party blogs
Libertarianism, from A to Z
Liberty Conspiracy
Liberty Forest
Liberty Maven» Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time
Lost Liberty Café
LRN Updates Google Group
Mackinac Center Commentaries
Manhattan Institute Articles
Marginal Revolution
Market-Based Management®
Mass LPA
Massachusetts's Campaign For Liberty
MasterResource
maxkeiser.com — Finance. Markets. Economics. Scandal.
mercatus (mercatus) on Twitter
Mercola Natural Health Articles
Michael Shanklin | Blog Talk Radio Feed
Mises Economics Blog
Mises Institute Daily Articles
Mises Institute Media
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism
Nathan's Economic Edge
National Taxpayers Union and National Taxpayers Union Foundation - RSS Feeds
New Hampshire Liberty Alliance
No One Has To Die Tomorrow
No Treason
Nouriel Roubini's Global EconoMonitor
NWOTruth
Oath Keepers
Pajamas Media
Patrick J. *Buchanan* - Official Website
Persistence of Vision
Peter Schiff News Blog
PFP Movement Radio | Blog Talk Radio Feed
PGPF Blog
Pioneer Institute Blog
Popular libertarian Bookmarks on Delicious
Popular liberty Bookmarks on Delicious
Positive Liberty » Advocates for Self-Government
Prison Planet Podcast
PrisonPlanet Forum
Pro Libertate
Pyramids of Control
RA - The Feed
RagingDebate.com / Discussions
RealClearPolitics - Articles
Reason Foundation -
Reason Foundation - Out of Control Policy Blog
Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1
Reason.tv -
Repeal the 17th Amendment
Republic Broadcasting Network
Republican Liberty Caucus
Retake Congress
Ridley Report - The New Hampshire revolution is now televised
ROGUEGOVERNMENT.COM
Ron Paul .com
Ron Paul Library
Ron Paul War Room
Safehaven
Salon: Glenn Greenwald
School Sucks Podcast: The END of Public Education
Sean Ryan for Boston City Council At-Large
Seasteading Institute - Comments for "Libertarian Island: No Rules, Just Rich Dudes"
Socio-Economics History Blog
Steve Keen's Debtwatch
Students For Liberty
Sweetness & Light
Taki’s Magazine
Tax Foundation - Tax Foundation's "Tax Policy Blog"
Tax Foundation - Tax Foundation's "Tax Policy Blog"
The Adventures of Citizen X
The Alex Jones Show
The Austrian Economists
The Ayn Rand Institute Stories
The Baseline Scenario
The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
The Catherine Austin Fitts Blog
The Daily Crux
The Economic Way of Thinking
The FOIA blog
The Fraser Institute - NEWS RELEASES
The Free Talk Live BBS
The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty
The Future of Freedom Foundation
The Infowarrior - Jason Bermas
The Lew Rockwell Show
The Merk Mutual Funds
The Mises Community
The New American
The Peace Freedom & Prosperity Movement
The Real News Network
The Robinson Report
The SPPI Blog
The UK Libertarian
The washington times Blogs: 'Water Cooler'
Tom Woods
Trial Logs
TruthNews.us
Twitter / AbolishTheFed
Twitter / acamnet
Twitter / andylevy
Twitter / Antiwarcom
Twitter / biggovt
Twitter / blogofbile
Twitter / BostonTeaParty
Twitter / BreakTheMatrix
Twitter / C4Liberty
Twitter / feedmeliberty
Twitter / FreeStateNH
Twitter / gardgoldsmith
Twitter / ierenergy
Twitter / JackERobinson
Twitter / JohnStossel
Twitter / Judgenap
Twitter / ladiesofliberty
Twitter / lewrockwell
Twitter / libertarianpprs
Twitter / LibertyMaven
Twitter / mises
Twitter / PatrickBuchanan
Twitter / pennjillette
Twitter / RandPaulSenate
Twitter / rebeleconomist
Twitter / RonPaulcom
Twitter / schiffforsenate
Twitter / shellyroche
Twitter / sibeledmonds
Twitter / TCTaxTeaParty
Twitter / TheAdvocates
Twitter / TheLibertyShip
Twitter / Wiltster
United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government
Upcoming: Freedom Events Events
Uploads by americanfreemedia
Uploads by BerkmanCenter
Uploads by campaignforliberty
Uploads by DrLenHorowitz
Uploads by FreeKeene
Uploads by freestatereport
Uploads by HR1207auditthefed
Uploads by IERDC
Uploads by LibertarianParty
Uploads by lonelantern
Uploads by marcaeld
Uploads by misesmedia
Uploads by Monsanto720p
Uploads by motorhomediaries
Uploads by PeterSchiffChannel
Uploads by PeterSchiffTV
Uploads by ReasonTV
Uploads by RobinsonforSenate
Uploads by robpatozz
Uploads by RonPaul2008dotcom
Uploads by TheAlexJonesChannel
Uploads by TheAntiTerrorist
Uploads by TheFederalistSociety
Uploads by ThemisTrading
Uploads by wearechange
Wall Street Unspun with Peter Schiff
Watts Up With That?
Wayne Madsen Report
We The People Congress.org / blog
WEB OF DEBT BLOG
Welcome To Jim Sinclair's MineSet
Wheels Off Liberty
Whistleblower Protection Blog
Will Grigg's Liberty Minutes
Year of Youth - Project 2012
Zero Hedge
8
The Show / typical American professional commits an average of three federal crimes a day
« on: November 05, 2009, 08:11:47 PM »
Boston area author....
http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/
In his new book, Three Felonies a Day, attorney Harvey Silverglate holds that the typical American professional commits an average of three federal crimes a day, just going about their daily business, without even realizing it. And the only thing keeping them out of prison — make that keeping you out of prison — is the fact that federal prosecutors haven’t looked at you yet. “No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch,” reads a statement on the book’s Web site, “and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.”
While Three Felonies a Day illustrates the problem quite well, today I want to talk about solutions. Likely you have never thought you needed to protect yourself from the government. But you probably weren’t aware that so many federal laws are “impossibly broad and vague” that you were a “criminal” several times over today, just for going to work, picking up your kids, and eating dinner. Moreover, the concept of criminal intent has been largely removed from the law, so you can be imprisoned even if you had no idea what you were doing was against the law.
Under the English common law we inherited, a crime requires intent. This protection is disappearing in the U.S. As Mr. Silverglate writes, “Since the New Deal era, Congress has delegated to various administrative agencies the task of writing the regulations,” even as “Congress has demonstrated a growing dysfunction in crafting legislation that can in fact be understood.” Prosecutors identify defendants to go after instead of finding a law that was broken and figuring out who did it. Expect more such prosecutions as Washington adds regulations. — Wall Street Journal
One of the most powerful solutions against the sorts of miscarriages of justice that land people like you in prison is privacy. Privacy makes it much harder for an overzealous prosecutor to spin your perfectly innocent activities into “crimes.” Not to mention it also provides protection against the more mundane threats of identity thieves, psychotic ex-spouses, and so on.
http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/
In his new book, Three Felonies a Day, attorney Harvey Silverglate holds that the typical American professional commits an average of three federal crimes a day, just going about their daily business, without even realizing it. And the only thing keeping them out of prison — make that keeping you out of prison — is the fact that federal prosecutors haven’t looked at you yet. “No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch,” reads a statement on the book’s Web site, “and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.”
While Three Felonies a Day illustrates the problem quite well, today I want to talk about solutions. Likely you have never thought you needed to protect yourself from the government. But you probably weren’t aware that so many federal laws are “impossibly broad and vague” that you were a “criminal” several times over today, just for going to work, picking up your kids, and eating dinner. Moreover, the concept of criminal intent has been largely removed from the law, so you can be imprisoned even if you had no idea what you were doing was against the law.
Under the English common law we inherited, a crime requires intent. This protection is disappearing in the U.S. As Mr. Silverglate writes, “Since the New Deal era, Congress has delegated to various administrative agencies the task of writing the regulations,” even as “Congress has demonstrated a growing dysfunction in crafting legislation that can in fact be understood.” Prosecutors identify defendants to go after instead of finding a law that was broken and figuring out who did it. Expect more such prosecutions as Washington adds regulations. — Wall Street Journal
One of the most powerful solutions against the sorts of miscarriages of justice that land people like you in prison is privacy. Privacy makes it much harder for an overzealous prosecutor to spin your perfectly innocent activities into “crimes.” Not to mention it also provides protection against the more mundane threats of identity thieves, psychotic ex-spouses, and so on.
9
The Show / Guest Request: Sterling Allan of Free Energy News
« on: September 27, 2009, 07:32:07 PM »
Sterling is committed to decentralizing energy through open source energy research and development. He's been doing this for a few years. See youtube and his website:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdnV1umiJpo
http://www.freeenergynews.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdnV1umiJpo
http://www.freeenergynews.com/
Pages: [1]