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  • August 5, 2013
    American Spectator (Online)
    Pharaoh Mindedness in Washington
    … interim president and other high officials. The military treated all opponents as “terrorists.” The military recreated the de facto secret police, the Interior Ministry departments which investigate political and religious activities. The military shot and killed protesters. But the administration …
    By Doug Bandow
  • March 7, 2011
    Blog
    Arrested for Pamphlets
    … to invoke wrongheaded precedents that say this case can be tried before a judge, not a jury. Oh, and the police arrested another guy for simply videotaping Heicklen’s arrest. No pamphlets, no photography, no jury trial. Cato co‐​published …
    By Tim Lynch
  • September 24, 2002
    National Review (Online)
    Building a New Nation — and Dealing With the Past
    … cruel and hard as Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, and the other early revolutionaries, and helped initiate decades of terror. The secret police force, from Cheka to KGB, was the most feared institution in the Soviet Union. It arrested, tortured, imprisoned, and …
    By Doug Bandow
  • October 15, 2009
    Blog
    PATRIOT Powers: Roving Wiretaps
    … wiretap should be familiar if you’ve ever watched The Wire, where dealers used disposable “burner” cell phones to evade police eavesdropping. A roving wiretap is used when a target is thought to be employing such measures to frustrate investigators …
    By Julian Sanchez
  • January 20, 2003
    Cato.org
    Beware of Total Information Awareness
    … TIPS, the Justice Department’s aborted plan to utilize citizen informants, often invoke the specter of the East German secret police and communist Cuba’s block watch system. But we don’t have to look to totalitarian states for cautionary …
    By Gene Healy
  • February 10, 2024
    National Review (Online)
    Becoming More Like China Than China
    Becoming More Like China Than China
    Hong Kong leaders now shill for Beijing, planning an even tougher National Security Law.
    By Doug Bandow
  • December 21, 2020
    American Spectator
    The Right Should Tell the Proud Boys to Get Lost
    Forget political differences for a moment. There is something more important at stake, including standing with fellow believers when under attack.
    By Doug Bandow
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