Personal Freedoms

Ten Years Since 9/11: Preserving Our Civil Liberties -

The Bush and Obama administrations' efforts to prevent another major terrorist attack have created an alarming imbalance between security concerns and the protection of personal freedoms. Cato scholars reflect upon the civil liberties legacy of 9/11:

The latest hysterical response to libertarian ideas

David Harsanyi | September 2, 2011

With the electorate getting more comfortable with libertarian ideas, a Maginot Line of hackery is being built to keep the barbarians out.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon named drug abuse as "public enemy number one in the United States," and officially declared a "war on drugs".

But the long federal experiment in prohibition of drugs has given us crime and corruption combined with a manifest failure to stop the use of drugs or reduce their availability to children.

This Week in History -

Hemispheric Think Tank Says Time for Drug Policy Rethink -

Part I: FCC “Ancillary” Authority to Regulate the Internet? Don’t Count on It -

The FCC published its long-awaited final Report and Order on net neutrality at the end of December (more on that in part 2 of this post), but the debate is far from over.

Now that a bipartisan coalition in the House has voted to repeal ObamaCare, an even larger bipartisan coalition has approved a Republican resolution directing four House committees to "replace" that ill-fated law. Cato scholar Michael F. Cannon argues that it's a bit premature to be talking about replacing ObamaCare. "No matter how good the Republicans' proposals are, they will be utterly ineffective so long as ObamaCare remains on the books," says Cannon.

...then only Criminals would have Ice Cream! Hmmm... I suppose, but since many good citizens abide by unjust laws based on fear of ramification, it would depend on the criminality and the level of punishment handed down for the possession of Ice cream. The statement is very true in a legal sense because, like drug users that believe it is their right to ingest things into their own bodies as long as no one else gets hurt, good citizens that would choose to circumvent the law would be, by law, criminals. Imagine a justice system clogged up by Mexican dairy product. Mmmmm!!!

Government Requests For Twitter Users' Personal Information Raise Serious Constitutional Concerns, Says ACLU -

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