Dear Friends of Liberty,
We have initiated a new project at the Liberty Coalition called 'Free Space' which is an audio blog based project to educated our supporters on the issues of the day as well as activities that individuals can do to protect and promote their liberty. We will be interviewing our partners, news makers, activists and educators. So, come and free your mind from corporate state propaganda at 'Free Space'.
In Liberty,
Michael D. Ostrolenk, Co-Founder/National Director
Video of the week:
I AM JUST A BILL
Liberty Coalition's Free Space:
FREE SPACE: Lisa Graves on NSA Wiretapping
32:17 minutes (29.56 MB)Lisa Graves of the Center for National Security Studies discusses NSA wiretapping, the Bush administration's claim to have uncheckable authority in this matter, as well as the personnel changes at the Justice Dept which have given the administration so much leeway. She details challenge Congress faces in providing meanginful oversight to the operations of the federal government in the area of national security.
Book of the week:
Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11
In The States:
"Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy"
Transparency in monetary policy is a goal we should all support. I've often wondered why Congress so willingly has given up its prerogative over monetary policy. Astonishingly, Congress in essence has ceded total control over the value of our money to a secretive central bank.
Surveillance:
RFID 'Powder' - World's Smallest RFID Tag
Science fiction fans will have a field day with this new technology. In his 1998 novel Distraction, Bruce Sterling referred to bugged money:
They always played poker with European cash. There was American cash around, flimsy plastic stuff, but most people wouldn't take American cash anymore. It was hard to take American cash seriously when it was no longer convertible outside U.S. borders. Besides, all the bigger bills were bugged. (Read more about bugged money)
Punishing the Persecuted
There are thousands, indeed tens of thousands, of people around the globe, victims of horrid oppression who have fought for their own liberation, sometimes alongside U.S. forces, who today are considered to be terrorists or supporters of terrorists, and thus cannot settle in America.Welcome to Washington, D.C., and the Kafkaesque world of the PATRIOT and Real ID Acts, as interpreted by the federal bureaucracy.
American Freedom Initiative:
Computer Tips and Privacy
Here are some computer tips for those of us who are anti-state, anti-war, and pro-market.
HealthFreedom:
The undersigned organizations are writing to ask you to reconsider your position mandating the vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually-transmitted disease, for schoolgirls as young as 10 years old.
Executive Power Abuse:
The Need for Hearing on State Secrets Prvilege
The state secrets privilege is ripe for a hearing. The NSA surveillance cases, extraordinary rendition cases of Maher Arar and Khalid el-Masri, the recent assertion of the privilege by the New York Times in a defamation case, and numerous other uses of the privilege have constantly been in the news for the last couple of years. But I want to explain why the Committee on Government Reform should hold the hearing and the reasons that focusing on Sibel’s case is the best way to open up this issue.
Saying of the Week:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and thus clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
The Liberty Coalition works to help organize, support, and coordinate transpartisan public policy activities related to civil liberties and basic human rights. We work in conjunction with groups of partner organizations that are interested in preserving the Bill of Rights, personal autonomy and individual privacy.
