1 . Justice William Brennan’s majority opinion in New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 270 (1964).
2 . Geoffrey R. Stone, et al., The First Amendment, 3rd. ed. (New York: Wolters Kluwer, 2008), 20.
3 . Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919).
4 . Frohwerk, 249 U.S. 204 (1919); Debs, 249 U.S. 211 (1919).
5 . Stone, The First Amendment, 30.
6 . Ibid., 31.
7 . Charles Paul Freund, “Dixiecrats Triumphant: The Menacing Mr. Wilson,” reason .com, http://reason.com/archives/2002/12/18/dixiecrats-triumphant (Dec. 18, 2002).
8 . Ibid.
9 . Ibid.
10 . Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919).
11 . Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927).
12 . Stone, The First Amendment, 41.
13 . Ibid.
14 . Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969).
15 . Virginia Board, 425 U.S. 748 (1976).
16 . Central Hudson, 447 U.S. 557 (1980).
17 . Edenfield, 507 U.S. 761, 700 (1993).
18 . 44 Liquormart, 517 U.S. 484 (1996).
19 . 44 Liquormart, 517 U.S. at 503 (citations omitted).
20 . Lorillard, 533 U. S. 525 (2001).
21 . Lorillard, 533 U.S. at 564.
22 . Duff Wilson, “Senate Approves Tight Regulation over Cigarettes,” New York Times ( June 12, 2009).
23 . Duff Wilson, “Tobacco Regulation Is Expected to Face a Free-Speech Challenge,” New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/business/12tobacco.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=senate%20approves%20tight%20regulation%20over%20 cigarettes&st=cse ( June 16, 2009).
24 . Ibid.
25 . Ibid.
26 . Ibid.
27 . Erznoznik, 422 U.S. 205 (1975).
28 . Sable Communications, Inc. v. FCC, 492 U.S. 115 (1989).
29 . Sable Communications, 492 U.S. 115 at 131.
30 . Val E. Limburg, “Fairness Doctrine,” the Museum of Broadcast Communications, http://www.museum.tv/archives/etc/F/ htmlF/fairnessdoct/fairnessdoct.htm.
31 . Ibid.
32 . Ibid.
33 . Red Lion, 395 U.S. 367 (1969).
34 . Brian Jennings, Censorship: The Threat To Silence Talk Radio (New York: Threshold Editions, 2009), 15–17.
35 . Ibid.
36 . Limburg, “Fairness Doctrine.”
37 . Ibid.
38 . Jennings, Censorship, 28.
39 . “Talk Show Hosts May Be Accomplices Under Hate Bill,” Examiner.com, http://www .examiner.com/x-9462-LA-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2009m6d26-Talk-show-host-can-be-prosecuted-as-accomplices-under-new-senate-hate-bill?cid=exrss-LA-Nonpartisan-Examiner ( June 26, 2009).
Lie #6
1 . “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms,” Report of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, February 1982, preface by Orrin G. Hatch.
2 . Adapted from John Twelve Hawks’s The Traveler: “If privacy had a tombstone, it would read this was for your own good.”
3 . “Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”—Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting in Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 479 (1928).
4 . 26 U.S.C. ch. 53, available at http://www.atf.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/nfa.htm.
5 . Lawrence H. Officer and Samuel H. Williamson, “Purchasing Power of Money in the United States from 1774 to 2008,” MeasuringWorth, http://www.measuringworth.com/ppowerus/index.php (2009).
6 .Sonzinsky v. United States, 300 U.S. 506 (1937).
7 . Child Labor Tax Cases.
8 . Interestingly, armies in the past had often used the short-barreled rifle as part of their military equipment. Therefore, whether intentionally or inadvertently, the federal government lied to the Supreme Court.
9 . The Supreme Court avoided the Second Amendment issue until 2008 and the Heller case. There were some cases that addressed the Second Amendment in dicta, but none set precedent regarding the Amendment’s meaning.
10 . Stephen P. Holbrook, “Nazi Firearms Laws and the Disarming of the German Jews,” Arizona Journal of International and Comparitive Law 17, no. 3, 483–535 (2000).
11 . “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms.”
12 .. Earl R. Kruschke, Gun Control: A Reference Handbook (Santa Barbara: ABC–CLIO, 1994).
13 . Gregg Lee Carter, Gun Control in the United States: A Reference Handbook (Santa Barbara: ABL–CLIO, 2006), 150.
14 . John R. Lott Jr., “More ‘Assault Weapons,’ Less Crime,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/lott/lott42.html ( Jun. 29, 2005).
15 . Ibid.
16 . John Ross, Self-Defense Laws and Violent Crime Rates in the United States.
17 . Gary Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America (Aldine Transaction, 1991).
18 . Don B. Kates Jr., “Supreme Court Affirms Individual Right: What’s Next?” the Independent Institute, http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2247 ( Jun. 26, 2008).
19 . Robert A. Levy, “Pistol Whipped: Baseless Lawsuits, Foolish Laws,” Cato Institute Policy Analysis, No. 400, www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1259 (May 9, 2001).
20 . Though typically attributed to Benjamin Franklin by a wide variety of sources, others have claimed that it was developed by a newspaper journalist in the twentieth century. The opinions and accuracies of such attribution vary. Since it sounds like Ben Franklin, I attribute it to him.
21 . This may sound unbelievable but it appears in the Congressional Record-House on February 8, 1995, at page H1381, along with a long list of other BATF transgressions.
22 . “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms.”
23 . Bill Miller, “Twist of Fate Turns Teacher’s Source of Protection into Tormentor,” Washington Post, November 19, 1992, as cited in “H.R. 666 and the Assault on the Bill of Rights,” available at http://gunowners.org/fs9506.htm.
24 . David Weigel, “Dick Heller Get Your Gun,” http://www.reason.com/blog/show/127643.html.
25 . For a detailed exposition of the applicability of the “state interest of the highest order” doctrine to First Amendment rights, as well as the way that it has been largely ignored and put on a back burner, see my article, “Whatever Happened to Freedom of Speech? A Defense of ‘State Interest of the Highest Order’ as a Unifying Standard for Erratic First Amendment Jurisprudence,” Published in Seton Hall Law Review, 29, 1999.
26 . Maloney v. Cuomo, 554 F.3d 56 (2d Cir. 2009).
27 . “Obama explains his support of the assault weapons ban,” John Lott’s Blogspot, http:johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-explains-his-support-of-assault.html.
28 . John Lott, “The new assault weapons ban will not reduce crime in this country,” Fox Forum at foxnews.com (Feb. 26, 2009).
29 . Joshua Rhett Miller, “Gun Advocates Ready for Battle on Federal Assault Weapons Ban,” foxnews.com (Mar. 17, 2009).
30 . This comparison is taken from Stephen P. Halbrook’s “What the Framer’s Intended: A Linguistic Analysis of the Right to ‘Bear Arms,’” Part IV, available at http://www .stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/linguistic-analysis.pdf.
Lie #7
1 . Murray N. Rothbard, For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes, 1996), 111.
2 . John Tierney, “Health Halo Can Hide the Calories,” New York Times, http://www .nytimes.com/2008/12/02/science/02tier.html?_r=2 (Dec. 1, 2008).
3 . Anemolla Hartocollis, “Restaurants Prepare for Big Switch: No Trans Fat,” New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/nyregion/21trans.html ( Jun. 21, 2008).
4 . “Obama Selects Frieden as CDC Director,” http://www.foxnews.com/ politics/2009/05/15/report-obama-selects-frieden-cdc-director (May 15, 2009).
5 . Niv Elis, “FDA Regulates Tobacco, And Philli
p Morris Cheers,” Forbes.com, http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/11/fda-smoking-cigarettes-business-healthcare-tobacco.html ( Jun. 11, 2009).
6 . Gardiner Harris, “F.D.A. Bans Sale of Flavored Cigarettes,” New York Times (Sept. 23, 2009).
7 . Ibid.
8 . Chris Conrad, Hemp: Lifeline to the Future (Sacramento: FS Book Company, 1994), 192–203.
9 . Claire Suddath, “The War on Drugs,” Time, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1887488,00.htm (Mar. 25, 2009).
10 . Ibid.
11 . The information on the Marihuana Tax Act comes from Paul Armentano’s article, “How the Feds Got Into the Pot Prohibition Business,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/armentano-p/armentano-p43.1.html (Sept. 4, 2009).
12 . Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1, 7 (2005).
13 . Raich, 545 U.S. at 17.
14 . Raich, 545 U.S. at 57–58.
15 . “To Allow or Deny?: Opposing Views on Access to Experimental Drugs,” Stanford Scientific, http://www.stanfordscientific.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72:a-passion-for-service&catid=42:volume-6-issue-2&Itemid=59 (Feb. 23, 2008).
16 . Ibid.
17 . Ibid.
18 . Kerry Howley, “Dying for Lifesaving Drugs,” Reason Magazine, http://www.reason .com/news/show/120763.html (August/September 2007).
19 . Steven Walker and Dan Popeo, “Trends,” Milken Institute Review, http://site03 .sequoia.fuzint.com/upload/MilkenReviewArticle.pdf (First Quarter, 2004).
20 . Howley, “Dying for Lifesaving Drugs.”
21 . Ibid.
22 . Abigail Alliance, 445 F.3d 470 (D.C. Cir. 2006).
23 . 445 F.3d at 480.
24 . 445 F.3d at 486.
25 . Bill Sardi, “Manhunt Medicine: Forced Cancer Treatment,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi110.html (May 26, 2009).
26 . “Daniel Hauser angry over continuing chemo,” http://www.news.com.au/ story/0,27574,25683954-401,00.html ( Jun. 24, 2009).
27 . Sardi, “Manhunt Medicine: Forced Cancer Treatment.”
28 . Radley Balko, “Who’s in Charge of Your Health?” reason.com, http://www.reason.com/news/show/133689.html (May 26, 2009).
Lie #8
1 . Murray Rothbard, The Case Against the Fed (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1994), 116. See http://mises.org/books/fed.pdf.
2 . Ibid.
3 . Rexford G. Tugwell, “A Center Report: Rewriting the Constitution,” Center magazine (March 1968), 18–20.
4 . Telephone Interview with Larry Parks ( Jul. 15, 2009).
5 . John Rubino and Jim Quinn, “It Started with Ron Paul,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/quinn/quinn14.1.html (Sept. 5, 2009).
6 . Murray Rothbard, The Case Against the Fed, 74.
7 . This quote is attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1790). See http://thinkexist.com/quotes/mayer_amschel_rothschild.
8 . Upon the eve of the creation of the Federal Reserve Board, Congressman Charles Lindberg Sr. (the grandfather of the famous aviator of the same name) said, “The money trust deliberately caused the 1907 money panic and thereby forced Congress to create a National Monetary Commission which led to the ultimate creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. The Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic monetary trust on earth. When the President signs the bill, the invisible government of the Monetary Powers will be legalized. The people must make a declaration of independence to relieve themselves from the Monetary Powers, by taking control of Congress! . . . The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking bill. The caucus and the party bosses have again operated and prevented the people from getting the benefit of their own government!” (Available at http://www.dailypaul.com/node/56117).
9 . Ron Paul, Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution After 200 Years (Auburn, AL: Ludvig von Mises Institute, 1988), 113. See http://mises.org/books/fed.pdf.
10 . Ibid.
11 . Eustace Mullins, The Secrets of the Federal Reserve ( John McLaughlin, 1993), chap. 2.
12 . Ibid.
13 . The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is applicable to all government agencies.
14 . A. Ralph Epperson, The Unseen Hand (Tucson, AZ: Publius Press, 1985), 175.
15 . “Executive Orders Disposition Tables: John F. Kennedy—1963,” http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/1963-kennedy.html.
16 . “JFK vs. Federal Reserve,” http://foundationfortruthinlaw.org/jfk-vs-fed.html; July 25, 2008 post on Daily Paul entitled, “JFK & Executive Order 11110,” http://www .dailypaul.com/node/56117.
17 . Friedrich A. Hayek, “A Free-Market Monetary System,” lecture delivered at the Gold and Monetary Conference in New Orleans, on November 19, 1977 (available at http://mises.org/story/3204).
18 . Murray Rothbard, “Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure,” Ludvig von Mises Institute, http://mises.org/story/3127, 26.
19 . This chapter is based on explanations provided by G. Edward Griffin, “A Talk by G. Edward Griffin,” www.bigeye.com/griffin.htm.
20 . Mike Ziegler, “Good as Gold,” Liberty Watch, www.libertywatch.com/volume03/issue08/coverstory.php.
21 . Ibid.
22 . Ibid.
23 . Joan Whitley, “Four Month Trial Ends with No Convictions,” Las Vegas Review-Journal, http://www.lvrj.com/news/9893062.html (Sept. 20, 2007).
24 . Statement by Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, October 19, 1993, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4126/is_n12_v79/ai_14725422/pg_4/.
25 . Noted by Congressman Ron Paul in a July 20, 1979, speech to the House of Representatives. Ron Paul, Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property, (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008), 105.
26 . Vin Suprynowicz, “Not Worth A Continental,” LewRockwell.com, http://www .lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz88.html (Aug. 8, 2008).
27 . Gene Epstein, “Freedom from the Fed Fix,” Barron’s, http://online.barrons.com/article/SB121702626696486253.html?mod=9_0031_b_this_weeks_magazine_columns ( Jul. 28, 2008).
28 . Patrice Hill, “Federal Reserve to Gain Power Under Plan,” Washington Times ( Jun.16, 2009).
Lie #9
1 . http://thinkexist.com/quotation/nothing_is_so_permanent_as_a_temporary_ government/191475.html.
2 . http://www.dictionary-quotes.com/the-government-solution-to-a-problem-is-usually-as-bad-as-the-problem-milton-friedman/.
3 . Timothy J. Gillis, Taxation & National Destiny: A Tax Systems Analysis and Proposal, (San Diego: Maximus Profectus, 1999), 17.
4 . “Fact Sheets: Taxes,” from the United States Department of the Treasury, http://www.treasury.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml.
5 . Gillis, Taxation & National Destiny, 32.
6 . Mark Schmidt, “Income Tax Withholding: Why ‘First Dibs’ for Uncle Sam Leaves Taxpayers Finishing Last,” National Taxpayers Union, http://www.ntu.org/main/press.php?PressID=256&org_name=NTU (Jul. 29, 2002).
7 . Ibid.
8 . Ibid.
9 . Ibid.
10 . Ibid.
11 . Ibid.
12 . Ibid.
13 . Ibid.
14 . Brian Doherty, “Best of Both Worlds: Milton Friedman reminisces about his career as an economist and his lifetime ‘avocation’ as a spokesman for freedom,” Reason magazine, http://reason.com/archives/1995/06/01/best-of-both-worlds ( June 1995).
15 . Ibid.
16 . Ibid.
17 . David Henderson, “Government Greed,” Reason magazine, http://reason.com/archives/1999/04/01/government-greed (April 1999).
18 . Doherty, “Best of Both Worlds.”
19 . Daniel J. Mitchell, “Defending Ron Paul’s Tax Plan,” Cato @ Liberty (a Cato Institute blog), http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2007/11/09/defending-ron-pauls-tax-plan (Nov. 9, 2007).
20 . glassbooth, http://glassb
ooth.org/explore/index/bob-barr/19/taxes-and-budget/13.
21 . Frank Chodorov, “Taxation Is Robbery,” Ludvig von Mises Institute, http://mises.org/etexts/taxrob.asp.
22 . Gregory Bresiger, “Housing Socialism,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/bresiger/bresiger20.html (Sept. 14, 2006).
23 . Ibid.
24 . “Rent Control,” a message from Malcolm Gladwell to Jacob Weisberg, Slate http:// www.slate.com/id/3651/entry/11183 (May 20, 1997).
25 . Becky Akers, “Wretched Rangel’s Angles and Wrangles,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers89.html ( Jul. 19, 2008).
26 . Ibid.
27 . Ibid.
28 . Thomas Sowell, “Social Security: The Enron That Politicians Have In the Closet,” Capitalism Magazine, http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1505 (Mar. 23, 2002).
29 . Ibid.
30 . Office of Management and Budget’s Mid-Session Review, Fiscal Year 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/pdf/09msr.pdf.
31 . Dale Steinreich, “Social Security Reform: True and False,” Ludvig von Mises Institute, http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=160&sortorder=articledate (Oct. 1996).
32 . Ibid.
Lie #10
1 . Ronald Reagan’s Remarks to Representatives of the Future Farmers of America, July 28, 1988, http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/072888c.htm.
2 . Ibid.
3 . Tiffany Sharples, “A Brief History of: FEMA,” Time.com, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1837231,00.html (Aug. 28, 2008).
4 . See my article entitled “Franklin Delano Bush,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/napolitano1.html (Sept. 24, 2005).
5 . William L. Anderson, “Katrina and the Never-Ending Scandal of State Management,” Ludvig von Mises Institute, http://mises.org/story/1909 (Sept. 13, 2005).
6 . Sheila Kaplan, “FEMA covered up cancer risks to Katrina victims,” Salon.com, http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2008/01/29/fema_coverup/index.html ( Jan. 29, 2008).
7 . Rick Jervis, “Thousands still in FEMA trailers,” USA Today, http://www.usatoday .com/news/nation/2009-06-28-fema-trailers_N.htm ( Jun. 29, 2009).
8 . http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/25/cbsnews_investigates/main4828884.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody.
9 . “FEMA Dissolves Gulf Coast Recovery Office,” CBSNews.com, http://www .cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/09/cbsnews_investigates/main4932321.shtml (Apr. 9, 2009).
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