With one major exception, the Roberts Court has been quite protective of unpopular (and even revolting) speech under the First Amendment. That exception, however, is a doozy. It involves a statute criminalizing “material support” for terrorism, and the danger of the law was on stark display this week with reports …
Health freedom-loving New Jerseyans are concerned by State Senator Loretta Weinberg’s Senate Bill No. 1759. Introduced this past March, Senator Weinberg’s bill is a bid to make the exercise of a vaccine religious exemption more difficult for New Jersey parents. If passed, this bill would require parents to state their religious beliefs …
The decision by the European Court of Human Rights last week to refuse to block the extradition of the radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four others to the United States on terrorism charges removes one of the last external checks on our emerging gulag state. Masri and the four others, …
On July 30, the Washington Post headlined “A bill to stop security leaks puts a plug on democracy,” saying: Journalists and others talk to officials daily. Background briefings are commonplace. Vital information is discussed. Most of it is unclassified. On May 15, HR 5743: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year …
American freedom always was weak. It’s now on life support. Numerous police state laws followed 9/11. Rights most people take for granted are on the chopping block for elimination. Big Brother spying alone eroded them. It’s ongoing lawlessly in many forms. So-called National Security Letters (NSLs) is one …
Marine Sent to Mental Ward for Questioning 9/11 Former marine Brandon Raub was carted off by the Feds and locked in a psychiatric ward for Facebook posts questioning the government’s version of 9/11. Surely the Feds are right … that kind of talk is crazy, right? Maybe. But remember that …
I am one of the lead plaintiffs in the civil lawsuit against the National Defense Authorization Act, which gives the president the power to hold any US citizen anywhere for as long as he wants, without charge or trial. In a May hearing, Judge Katherine Forrest issued an injunction against …
I was on the 15th floor of the Southern U.S. District Court in New York in the courtroom of Judge Katherine Forrest on Tuesday. It was the final hearing in the lawsuit I brought in January against President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. I filed the suit, …
Many labels characterize him: distinguished author, essayist, playwright, historian, acerbic sociopolitical/cultural critic, freethinker, intellectual, and humanist. In 2009, the American Humanist Association (AHA) named him honorary president. On July 31, Gore Vidal died from complications of pneumonia at his Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles home. He was 86. He’ll be missed. …
Think you have the right to speak freely via cellphones, websites and social media? Well, the companies that provide you with access to the Internet don’t. The framers drafted the First Amendment as a check on government authority — not corporate power. But whether we’re texting friends, sharing photos on Facebook, or …
On December 31, 2011, President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. Section 1021 of that law permits the indefinite military detention of American citizens on a mere suspicion of a connection, however remote or unintended, with a terrorist group. It was the death blow to a …
A federal judge in New York on Wednesday ruled in favor of a group of civilian activists and journalists and struck down highly controversial ‘indefinite detention’ and ‘material support’ provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act, enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Obama last December. In their suit, the plaintiffs …
This week the House of Representatives is debating CISPA, the dangerous ‘cybersecurity’ bill that threatens to decimate Internet users’ privacy in the name of security. This law gives companies the power to read users’ emails, tweets, Facebook pages, and Google searches and hand them to the government without any judicial oversight whatsoever—essentially a …
In the first half hour, Richard Renner interviews whistleblower Michael DeGuelle about his landmark case against S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Deguelle was fired after he blew the whistle on the company’s multi-million dollar tax fraud scheme. DeGuelle filed a RICO lawsuit claiming that his discharge was part of the …
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In the first half hour, David Colapinto interviews peace activist Kevin Zeese, co-chair of Come Home America about the ongoing hearing for PFC Bradley Manning and the campaigns by the Bradley Manning Support Network to support his release. You can take action to protect PFC Manning at www.whistleblowersradio.org. In the …
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