It’s time to face the facts. We no longer have any privacy. Certainly not like what we used to enjoy, if a truly private moment was sought. Every phone now comes with a camera, and with an internet connection – so the photos and videos shot with said camera can be quickly downloaded to any number of web sites for anyone on the planet to peruse should they have the morbid curiosity to do so. Ca...
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The TSA is no longer the frontrunner in the Killers of the Constitution Contest for year 2011. The judiciary– on both the state and federal level– has officially entered the competition and I gotta tell you, we might as well give them the crown now. When I wrote last November about the Department of Homeland Security declaring it a terrorist act to speak out against TSA policy, I t...
I’ve got a confession to make: I was an initial supporter of the Patriot Act. For those who are warming up their Neo-Con branding iron as they’re reading this, I’ll add the qualifier that I was too young for a driver’s license at the time, so you can’t really hold it against me that I wasn’t well-versed on slippery-slope erosions of Constitutional rights. Anyhow, America was finall...
Every day it becomes more apparent that the more laws and regulations government bestows upon us, the less productive we become as a society. Now before anyone gets their panties in a wad – I am NOT an anarchist – I certainly understand why it’s important to protect children and the elderly from anyone who might take advantage of them in any way. But those laws fall under the category of “...
(Warning: Language) Remember Charles Manson? Charlie, of course, was the patriarch of what came to be known as the Manson Family, a nomadic gaggle of drug-abusing flower children whose adventures culminated in a psychotic blood-rampage throughout the Los Angeles area in 1969. (Charlie’s family didn’t just snuff their victims’ lives, either; they…did things.) Charlie had built up a f...
There was an unfortunate shooting incident in Tucson, Arizona just the other day. A Congresswoman was shot in the head and her life is hanging by a thread. In the process, several people were wounded, and a few others were killed, including a nine year old girl who wanted to meet the Congresswoman to learn more about government, since she was newly elected to her school’s council (or some such t...
For the last year, Americans have been screaming at the top of their lungs that they don’t like what our country has become. If the massive popularity of the Tea Party wasn’t proof enough, the November donkey bloodbath of 63 Congressional seats says it all. Or rather, that’s what it says to those who were listening. I regularly discuss the legislative and political process with my four-y...
Consider this column my “end-of-the-year” observation on various issues that have my head spinning. Things that are relatively easy to fix, yet – they make for such great rhetoric and political posturing, I rather doubt we’ll see any of them fixed any time soon. In no particular order, here’s my end of the year “WTFs”: #1: The IRS and the US tax system. The current tax code is ream...
For as cliché as it is to call the government “Orwellian” or to refer to “Big Brother”, it has become impossible not to. And yet, it is in daring to honestly address the complete disregard for our Constitution that the greatest danger lies. The TSA’s search techniques are so overreaching and unconstitutional that even former TSA security director Mo McGowan admits that t...
As state and federal budgets bleed out, governments and agencies are taking an aggressive look at ways to increase their revenue stream. This will mean much more “proactive” (I really, really hate that word) enforcement of laws and regulations. That will mean we’ll be paying dearly for the irresponsible way local, state, and federal governments have pissed away their treasuries. This is a co...
