Freedom, how long will it last?

Lecture by James Bovard presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s 2002 Austrian Scholars Conference, the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, held annually at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. mises.org James Bovard is a bestselling libertarian author and lecturer, whose political commentary targets examples of waste, failures, corruption, cronyism and abuses of power in government. He is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy, and eight other books. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader’s Digest, The American Conservative, and many other publications. His books have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Korean. The Wall Street Journal called Bovard “the roving inspector general of the modern state.” Washington Post columnist George Will called him a “one-man truth squad.” His 1994 book Lost Rights The Destruction of American Liberty received the Free Press Association’s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism and Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner Award for the Best Book on Liberty in 2003. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought, and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association. Bovard’s writings have been publicly denounced by the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of …

The human rights record of Syria: A state of emergency has been in effect since 1963 and it gives “security forces sweeping powers of arrest and detention,” according to Amnesty International. Syria is a one-party state without free elections and “freedom of expression and association remain strictly controlled.” In 2009 “hundreds of people were arrested and hundreds of others remained imprisoned for political reasons”. Military Police were reported to have killed at least 17 detainees. Human rights defenders have been harassed and persecuted. Women and minorities face discrimination. According to Human Rights Watch, as of 2009 Syria’s poor human rights situation had “deteriorated further”. Authorities arrested political and human rights activists, censored websites, detained bloggers, and imposed travel bans. Syria’s multiple security agencies continue to detain people without arrest warrants. No political parities were licensed and emergency rule, imposed in 1963, remained in effect. Amnesty International reports, “members of the Kurdish minority faced discrimination; many were effectively stateless and denied equal access to social and economic rights. Women were subject to discrimination and gender-based violence. Sixteen civilians were killed in a bomb explosion which state media attributed to an armed group. the Syrian government’s “respect for human rights worsened”. Members of the security forces arrested and detained individuals without providing just cause …

December 10, 1993 www.amazon.com Research into the media and violence attempts to determine whether a link between consuming media violence and subsequent aggressive and violent behavior exists. Although some social scientists support this link, methodological and theoretical problems with the existing literature limit interpretation of findings in this area. There is concern among some scholars that media researchers may have exaggerated effects (Ferguson & Kilburn, 2009; Freedman, 2002; Pinker 2002; Savage, 2004). For example, a 2008 editorial in medical journal the Lancet concluded that discussions of media violence effects were exaggerted. There are many explanations of aggressive behavior which do not emphasize the role of the media. For example, some researchers have suggested that the pathway to aggression is largely biological/genetic (see the work of Hare, 1993, Larsson, Andershed, & Lichtenstein, in Press, among others), while others have suggested that aggression can be explained by principles of evolutionary psychology. Complaints about the possible deleterious effects of mass media are nothing new. Plato complained about the effects of plays on youth. Various media/genres, including dime novels, comic books, jazz, rock and roll, role playing/computer games and many others have attracted speculation that consumers of such media may become more aggressive, rebellious or immoral. This has led some scholars to conclude statements made by some researchers merely …

America: Freedom to Fascism (also America: From Freedom to Fascism or (per the title card) America: Freedom to Fascism Volume One) is a 2006 film by Aaron Russo. It was exhibited in theaters in select US cities.[1] This documentary covers many subjects, including: the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the income tax, Federal Reserve System, national ID cards (REAL ID Act), human-implanted RFID tags (Spychips), Diebold electronic voting machines,[2] globalization, Big Brother, taser weapons abuse,[3] and the alleged use of terrorism by government as a means to diminish the citizens’ rights. Some of the premises of the film include: The Federal Reserve System is unconstitutional and has maxed out the national debt and bankrupted the United States government. Federal income taxes were imposed in response to, or as part of, the plan implementing the Federal Reserve System. Federal income taxes are unconstitutional or otherwise legally invalid. The use of the Federal income tax to counter the economic effects of the Federal Reserve System is futile. The film’s claims about the illegality of the income tax in the United States have been critiqued as factually dubious by some reviewers.[4] The film has, however, developed a cult following

Lecture by John V. Denson discussing how America’s interventionist foreign policies dangerously expands central government power and usurps individual rights and liberties on the home front. Presented at the Brown Bag Seminar, sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Recorded February 15, 1995. mises.org John V. Denson serves as Circuit Court Judge in Opelika, Alabama and is a former vice chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is theauthor of the book A Century of War and is the editor of two other books, The Costs of War and Reassessing the Presidency. In the latter work, he has chapters especially relevant for today, on how Lincoln and FDR lied us into war. Selected articles by John Denson The Crime Called WW I www.lewrockwell.com Defending the Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy of Our Founders www.lewrockwell.com The Hiroshima Myth www.lewrockwell.com FDR, Pearl Harbor and the UN www.lewrockwell.com American Mussolini www.lewrockwell.com Another Century of War? www.lewrockwell.com Soldiers Against War: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce www.lewrockwell.com Best-Ever Antiwar Novel and Movie www.lewrockwell.com Why Did Lincoln Invade the South? www.lewrockwell.com Related links: Read excerpted chapter from ‘A Century of War’ online: mises.org Lew Rockwell Podcast: Wilson’s War www.lewrockwell.com Lew Rockwell Podcast: Lincoln’s War www.lewrockwell.com DISCLAIMER: Owner of this media presentation, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, has given permission …

The Ron Paul FREEDOM PRINCIPLES * Rights belong to individuals, not groups. * Property should be owned by people, not government. * All voluntary associations should be permissible — economic and social. * The government’s monetary role is to maintain the integrity of the monetary unit, not participate in fraud. * Government exists to protect liberty, not to redistribute wealth or to grant special privileges. * The lives and actions of people are their own responsibility, not the government’s. “Too often we give foreign aid and intervene on behalf of governments that are despised. Then, we become despised. Too often we have supported those who turn on us, like the Kosovars who aid Islamic terrorists, or the Afghan jihadists themselves, and their friend Osama bin Laden. We armed and trained them, and now were paying the price.” www.youtube.com www.campaignforliberty.com

Obama waited until Saturday night to renew the Bill of Rights busting Patriot Act. It was set to expire today. Both the Senate and the House signed off on the extension last week. Instead of tracking terrorists, the bill has been used to track the American people. The Patriot Act allows the government to search and seize Americans papers and effects without probable cause to assist terror investigations. It prevents a right to a speedy and public trial. It discourages freedom of association, freedom of speech, and the right to legal representation. The Patriot Act is being used to bring in a Police State. The act allows the government to abduct citizens and jail them without charge or the ability to confront witnesses against them. It effectively turns America into East Germany or Stalins Russia. Part 2: www.youtube.com Part 3: www.youtube.com Part 4: www.youtube.com Part 5: www.youtube.com Part 6: www.youtube.com Part 7: www.youtube.com Part 8: www.youtube.com Join The Illuminati (Msg Me). SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL. Copyright: thealexjoneschannel

Obama and the Patriot Act: Yes We Can Kill the Bill of Rights Kurt Nimmo www.infowars.com February 28, 2010 Obama waited until Saturday night to renew the Bill of Rights busting Patriot Act. It was set to expire today. Both the Senate and the House signed off on the extension last week. So called privacy protections were dumped when Senate Democrats failed to raise a 60-vote supermajority to pass them. Cast aside were restrictions and greater scrutiny on the governments authority to spy on Americans and seize their records, the Associated Press reports. The Obama administration wanted to extend the measure because of provisions it says are important in tracking suspected terrorists, including roving wiretaps to track multiple communications devices, Reuters reported on Thursday. Disappointingly, the governments dangerously broad authority to conduct roving wiretaps of unspecified or John Doe targets, to secretly wiretap of persons without any connection to terrorists or spies under the so-called lone wolf provision, and to secretly access a wide range of private business records without warrants under PATRIOT Section 215 were all renewed without any new checks and balances to prevent abuse, Kevin Bankston wrote last week after the act sailed through Congress. Instead of tracking terrorists, the bill has been used to track the American people. In 2008, for instance, the Justice Department made 763 requests for sneak-and-peek warrants, but only three of those had to do with …

Obama and the Patriot Act: Yes We Can Kill the Bill of Rights Kurt Nimmo www.infowars.com February 28, 2010 Obama waited until Saturday night to renew the Bill of Rights busting Patriot Act. It was set to expire today. Both the Senate and the House signed off on the extension last week. So called privacy protections were dumped when Senate Democrats failed to raise a 60-vote supermajority to pass them. Cast aside were restrictions and greater scrutiny on the governments authority to spy on Americans and seize their records, the Associated Press reports. The Obama administration wanted to extend the measure because of provisions it says are important in tracking suspected terrorists, including roving wiretaps to track multiple communications devices, Reuters reported on Thursday. Disappointingly, the governments dangerously broad authority to conduct roving wiretaps of unspecified or John Doe targets, to secretly wiretap of persons without any connection to terrorists or spies under the so-called lone wolf provision, and to secretly access a wide range of private business records without warrants under PATRIOT Section 215 were all renewed without any new checks and balances to prevent abuse, Kevin Bankston wrote last week after the act sailed through Congress. Instead of tracking terrorists, the bill has been used to track the American people. In 2008, for instance, the Justice Department made 763 requests for sneak-and-peek warrants, but only three of those had to do with …

Obama and the Patriot Act: Yes We Can Kill the Bill of Rights Kurt Nimmo www.infowars.com February 28, 2010 Obama waited until Saturday night to renew the Bill of Rights busting Patriot Act. It was set to expire today. Both the Senate and the House signed off on the extension last week. So called privacy protections were dumped when Senate Democrats failed to raise a 60-vote supermajority to pass them. Cast aside were restrictions and greater scrutiny on the governments authority to spy on Americans and seize their records, the Associated Press reports. The Obama administration wanted to extend the measure because of provisions it says are important in tracking suspected terrorists, including roving wiretaps to track multiple communications devices, Reuters reported on Thursday. Disappointingly, the governments dangerously broad authority to conduct roving wiretaps of unspecified or John Doe targets, to secretly wiretap of persons without any connection to terrorists or spies under the so-called lone wolf provision, and to secretly access a wide range of private business records without warrants under PATRIOT Section 215 were all renewed without any new checks and balances to prevent abuse, Kevin Bankston wrote last week after the act sailed through Congress. Instead of tracking terrorists, the bill has been used to track the American people. In 2008, for instance, the Justice Department made 763 requests for sneak-and-peek warrants, but only three of those had to do with …