All Posts Tagged With: "civil asset forfeiture"
Book Reviews – November 2007
- Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
by Robert Gellately Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- Depression, War, and Cold War
by Robert Higgs Reviewed by Burton Folsom, Jr.
- Great Philanthropic Mistakes
by Timothy Sandefur Reviewed by George C. Leef - Elements of Justice
by David Schmidtz Reviewed by Aeon J. Skoble
Where in the World Can You Find Economic Freedom?
Late 2003 saw the release of the most recent editions of two publications that rank the nations of the world according to their degrees of economic freedom. The Fraser Institute, located in British Columbia, put out the eighth edition of its Economic Freedom of the World and the Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal published [...]
1Sep2004 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Tyranny of Good Intentions by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton
Forum • 2000 • 242 pages • $24.95 How safe are people from the encroachments of government into their lives? That has varied from place to place and time to time. In Stalin’s Soviet Union, for example, people had no security whatever. The rulers could do with them as they pleased because the concept of [...]
1Jun2001 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedAsset Forfeiture Run Amok
Based on the word of an “informant,” who was a self-confessed addict with two prior felony convictions, the Oakland County, Michigan, police searched all the buildings for evidence of drug dealing. They found no drugs, no drug paraphernalia, no records of drug transactions, and no other evidence of drug dealing. They did find one small plastic bag of powder, which on examination, turned out to be Slim Fast.
1Nov1998 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedReviving a Civil Society
“Taxes,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “are what we pay for civilized society.” But as my fellow Freeman columnist Mark Skousen explained in his remarkable monograph “Persuasion vs. Force,” a much better case can be made that taxation is actually the price we pay for the lack of civilization. If people took better care of [...]
1Sep1996 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued-
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