Free Republic

When They Come For You: How Police and Government are Trampling Our Liberties and How To Take Them Back It goes without saying that our government is responsible for a serious erosion of our Constitutional rights in recent years. Maybe it’s more accurate to say it has often gone without saying. Some of those most outspoken, historically, on these issues remain largely silent– or even take the other side in today’s Alice in Wonderland dynamic. Author and journalist David Kirby stands up where too many stay seated with his new expose: “When They Come For You: How Police and Government...

A U.S.-funded health project in Uganda has suspended operations after police arrested a staff member on suspicion of promoting homosexuality, highlighting the mounting legal risks confronting the gay community in the east African state. Uganda enacted legislation in February that strengthened punishments for anyone caught having gay sex, imposing jail terms of up to life for "aggravated homosexuality" - including sex with a minor or while HIV-positive. The United States, one of Uganda's major bilateral sources of aid, and other Western donors have halted or re-directed some $118 million in aid since President Yoweri Museveni signed the law, which also...

"Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe a S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 a.m. on Tuesday."

Via JWF and Reason, we now present this instructional video from the Department of Education. Now that the government has for all practical pruposes nationalized the student-loan industry, the DoE would like to educate recipients on new loan-collection processes. The banks used to send bill collectors and file claims in court, but the Obama administration doesn’t like those kind of harsh private-sector measures to retrieve lost capital. Instead, they’ll send a SWAT team to kick in your door and frighten your children — even if you don’t live with them anymore: CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO Kenneth Wright does...

Hi everyone! I just started blogging here and I thought I'd share my thoughts on the economy. But first about myself, Im 17 years old and live in Pawtucket Rode Island. I make a living as a profesional printer after I quit school and invented a revolutionary way to make money without working. I print it! YES! I can't believe no one ever thought of it before! I thought it up a year ago after I got fired from Wendys. I needed a quick way to make money so I printed it out on my computer using a scanner. I...

The television show Cops stopped filming in Cincinnati today after council members objected to what the show might depict. Cincinnati Police Chief Tom Streicher changed his mind Thursday about letting the Fox TV show crews continue to film, which they had started Tuesday.

Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad ends his self-representation and will be represented by defense lawyers.

Embattled lawyer spurs DA's inquiry 01/19/2003 By HOWARD SWINDLE / The Dallas Morning News A controversial lawyer, already at battle with a state bar disciplinary commission, is also under scrutiny by prosecutors over a sworn statement she made to government authorities. At the center of the new inquiry by the Dallas County district attorney's office is an affidavit that criminal defense lawyer Catherine Mehaffey Shelton made in late 2001 to the sheriff's department to guarantee a client's $25,000 bail bond. Ms. Shelton swore in the document that there were no judgments pending against her. At the time, however, Ms....

Malvo can be tried as adult 01/16/2003 Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. - Citing what he called strong circumstantial evidence, a judge ruled Wednesday that 17-year-old sniper suspect John Lee Malvo can be tried as an adult, making him eligible for the death penalty. Juvenile Court Judge Charles Maxfield made his decision after a hearing in which prosecutors said that Mr. Malvo tried to extort $10 million from authorities during the killing spree and that fingerprints on the murder weapon and other evidence tied the teenager to four attacks, three of them fatal. Mr. Malvo and John Allen Muhammad, 42,...

FW probe led to Townshend's arrest 01/14/2003 By JIM DOUGLAS / WFAA-TV FORT WORTH - The arrest of rock legend Pete Townshend on suspicion of possessing child pornography has a link to North Texas. Mr. Townshend's arrest Monday stems from a 1999 investigation in Fort Worth. That probe was called Operation Avalanche, a reference to Landslide Productions, Inc., a Fort Worth-based Internet company that ran a multi-million dollar child pornography business. It has turned into the world's biggest child porn investigation ever. "We collected a database that Landslide had and then we shared that information throughout this country and...

Posted on Mon, Jan. 06, 2003 Federal trial of 11 officers starts today Coverups alleged in several shootingsBY LUISA YANEZlyanez@herald.com The corruption trial of 11 Miami police officers accused of shooting suspects, then planting guns and concocting evidence to cover up wrongdoing is scheduled to start today in Miami federal court with jury selection -- a process expected to last a week.Once evidence begins unfolding, prosecutors and defense attorneys will paint starkly different portraits of the defendants. Prosecutors will try to persuade jurors that the defendants were rogue officers who disregarded the lives of unarmed suspects. Defense attorneys, for...