All Posts Tagged With: "victimless crime"
The Decline in Civil Liberties
On a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., in 1981, I sat beside a U.S. foreign service officer who had just finished a stint in Moscow. He told me that although he had enjoyed the job, he needed to get his family back to America because he wanted his children to grow up understanding what [...]
25Aug2010 | David R. Henderson | 6 comments | ContinuedThe “Risk” of Liberty: Criminal Law in the Welfare State
Michael Giuliano is an attorney editor at Thomson Reuters. The word crime has come to include an ever-increasing assortment of activities that do not fit the intuitive meaning of the word. The law has criminalized behavior deemed risky or undesirable and actions or status having only vague relationships to undefined harms. The lawmaking process under [...]
1Sep2008 | Michael N. Giuliano | 4 comments | ContinuedIntrusions Great and Small
Ridgway K. (Dick) Foley, Jr. (ridgway.foley@greenemarkley.com) practices law in Oregon and is a former FEE officer and trustee. Individuals must always choose between alternatives. Indeed, man cannot avoid this ineluctable natural rule: a refusal to choose constitutes a choice. Whether a blessing or a curse, this fundamental law of human action helps differentiate mankind from all other species. [...]
1May2007 | Ridgway K. Foley Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedDemocracy Versus Liberty
If a foreign power took over the United States and dictated that American citizens surrender 40 percent of their income, required them to submit to tens of thousands of different commands (many of which were effectively kept secret from them), prohibited many of them from using their land, and denied many the chance to find [...]
1Aug2006 | James Bovard | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Courageous Decision That Lasted But Nine Days
Sonya Evette Singleton is not a heroine, but for nine days her case shaped the law in the tenth judicial circuit of the United States and opened the doors for a bit more honor in government. Ms. Singleton had been convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and of money laundering, based partly on the testimony [...]
1May2002 | Joseph S. Fulda | 0 comments | ContinuedPolitics and Prohibition
Writing in the December 2001 Atlantic Monthly, Judge Richard Posner called for an end to the “war on drugs.” He is among a small but growing number of eminent scholars and officials who openly advocate that the state get out of the drug-prohibition business. Milton Friedman and William F. Buckley Jr. have long pressed for [...]
1Mar2002 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 1 comment | Continued-
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