Over on the blog, Defending People: The Art and Science of Criminal Defense Lawyering, after a post titled “Thoughts on a Hanging,” a character named “Y” comments: Wait. A. Minute. How can we have real liberty if we lack safety? How is a man free to “pursue happiness” — another key phrase to our country’s […]

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Once upon a time in America . . .

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I have frequently seen a group known as “Peace Fresno” standing on street corners, holding up signs and protesting various war activities. Steve Malm, one of their members, periodically sends me email or stops me in the parking lot — we both attend San Joaquin College of Law — to tell me a little about […]

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There’s something about this story that makes my skin crawl. That something has been bothering me for some time, but has become increasingly more bothersome with each passing day of occupation by the Ashcroft-Rove-Cheney-Bush coalition. That something is that the day of a police state on American soil is fast approaching. I guess it’s just […]

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Several blogs I read have been linking to a well-written first-hand reaction of someone outside the United States to the now-entrenched paranoia of the United States. If democracy were sick and terrorism were the disease, the Bush Administration’s “cure” has surely killed the patient.

In fact, this is exactly what has happened.

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Uh…I don’t know what else to say about this. Wow. Wouldn’t it be better to have the government just implant computer chips into everyone’s skull at birth regardless of where we’re born?

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Interesting, nu? The mystery is why Ashcroft, after resisting the appointment of a special prosecutor for several months, changed his mind. One exciting possibility is that Karl Rove, whom Plame’s husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson, fingered early on, has emerged as a serious suspect. (Rove was a political consultant on two of Ashcroft’s gubernatorial campaigns […]

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As new polls suggest 49% of Americans believe the First Amendment provides too much freedom (freedom of the press is cited as the biggest flaw in the Constitution by these folks), the Federal Government has announced plans to put cameras everywhere, starting with airplanes, to monitor pilots and passengers in case somebody makes a no-no.

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The following is a quote from the Congressional Record: September 3, 2002 (Senate), Page S8041-S8048.       Did you catch that? President Truman submitted a proposal that had been drafted, not by four people in secrecy in the basement of the White House, but by representatives of the armed forces and had been approved by the Secretaries […]

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