Tag: Due Process

Legal Plunder

“When the same man, or set of men, holds both the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty.” George Mason One of the greatest political philosophers, Frederic Bastiat, wrote that the law should exist to protect life,…

Due Process When Everything Is A Crime

Government has become so big and intrusive – Congress has passed so many laws, many unread, – the Justice Department so politicized – that there are few checks and balances left to restrain these petty tyrants. Prosecutorial discretion poses an increasing threat…

No Fly, No Buy – No Due Process

Close your eyes for a moment and imagine, if you will, that the US were to abandon all of the sacred principles that its people once considered inviolable. Imagine that, instead of being bound by laws, judges and juries, the…