Dec 07
By Roger Roots As a crusading libertarian lawyer I often get phone calls from people who tell me they want to sue their local government officials in their snake pit of municipal corruption. They always have heartbreaking stories of City Hall stealing, robbing or destroying their homes, families or businesses. I generally have to tell …
Dec 22
From the beginning of the FISA Court, critics predicted it would become an embarrassment. New revelations show this was an understatement Libertarian journalist and civil rights activist Glenn Greenwald dismantles the recent Inspector General report in The Intercept. According to the IG report, the FBI routinely cuts corners in its FISA Court pleadings. Moreover, the …
Sep 24
By Roger Roots, founder, Lysander Spooner University The law means nothing; the State’s keys must unlock all doors. Using arguments from the feminist movement, the New Mexico Supreme Court summarily struck down the spouse privilege on August 30, 2019 in a case entitled State v. Gutierrez. The Court did so without consultation with its own …
Aug 29
In case more proof was needed that government budgets are bloated and overflowing . . . For years, US voters have elected politicians who promised to cut government. Such politicians have then gone to state and federal capitols and voted for ever-more government. A frequent tactic of “limited government” Republicans who win elections is to …
Apr 27
A COMPLETE COLLAPSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW UNDER THE ‘GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR’ Just 20 years ago no one imagined that the U.S. government would begin incarcerating prisoners without charge, trial or due process for years at a time. But now the U.S. government is drafting formal plans to house prisoners for life without indictment, charge, …
Apr 26
A 16-year-old Saudi boy posted several comments about anti-government protests on WhatsApp. The boy was severely tortured, shocked with electricity, threatened with the murder of his family, and made to sign a confession without an attorney. This week the boy was convicted of “terrorism” on the basis of his tortured confession, and beheaded before a …
Jul 08
A 24-year-old Lebanese tourist in Egypt complained of being sexually harassed by taxi drivers and young men in the street, as well as poor restaurant service during the holy month of Ramadan. She posted a video on Facebook. A Cairo court found her guilty of deliberately spreading false rumours that would harm society, attacking religion, …
May 27
An Algerian blogger named Merzoug Touati was sentenced last week to 10 years imprisonment for providing intelligence to “agents of a foreign power” likely to damage Algeria. In January 2017, Touati was arrested after he posted an online video interview with an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman and a Facebook post in which he called for …
Apr 03
Many Americans wonder why cops are so violent, aggressive and lawless. Why don’t they obey the Constitution or Bill of Rights? The answer is America’s judges. For more than a century, judges have enshrined cops as masters over the rest of humanity. Judges tend to hold that when a person gets hired as a cop …
Mar 10
A declassified document has been recently found attached to a court filing in a federal court case. The document reveals that defense lawyers for the alleged bombers of the USS Cole quit the case after discovering a microphone in their special client meeting room. Even more startling is that the lawyers were ordered not to …
