It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong (45 page)

28
.
Griswold v. Connecticut
381 U.S. 479, 500 (1965).

29
. Ibid., 485.

30
. See Senator Feingold's Web site,
http://feingold.senate.gov/issues_patriot.html
.

31
. Final Vote Results for Roll Call 398,
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll398.xml
.

32
. U.S. C
ONST
. A
MEND
. IV.

33
. Federal Bureau of Investigation, press release,
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel07/nsl_faqs030907.htm
.

34
. Ibid.

35
. Ibid.

36
. Andrew P. Napolitano, “How Congress Has Assaulted Our Freedoms in the Patriot Act,”
Lewrockwell.com
, December 15, 2006,
www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/napolitano2.html
.

37
.
Supra
note 33.

38
. Kim Zetter, “FBI Use of Patriot Act Authority Increased Dramatically in 2008,”
Wired
, May 19, 2009,
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/fbi-use-of-patriot-act-authority-increased-dramatically-in-2008
/.

39
. H.R. 3162, 107th Cong. (2001).

40
. Douglas MacMillan, “Google Details Governments' Data Demands,”
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
, April 21, 2010.

41
. Ibid.

Chapter 7

1
. Tom Knighton, “Prostitution: The Other Prohibition,” United Liberty, June 24, 2010,
http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/6176-prostitution-the-other-prohibition
.

2
. Paul Armentano, “The Case for Legalized Prostitution,” The Future of Freedom Foundation, December 1993,
http://www.fff.org/freedom/1293e.asp
.

3
. “New York City Passes Trans Fat Ban,” MSNBC, December 5, 2006,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16051436
/.

4
. John Coté, “Sugary-drink Ban Starts to Affect S.F. Sites,”
Sfgate.com
, July 6, 2010,
http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-07-06/bay-area/21939137_1_vending-machines-soda-obesity
.

5
. Mary Katherine Ham, “Nanny State Looks to Ban Salt in NY,”
The Weekly Standard
, March 11, 2010.

6
. Ibid.

7
. Eric Felten, “Thin Edge of the Wedge: A Fat Kid,”
Wall Street Journal
, April 30, 2010.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Dr. Sally Satel, “The Waiting Game,” American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, June 26, 2006,
www.aei.org/docLib/20060607_SatelQF.pdf
.

10
. The Organ Procurement and Transportation Network provides further information:
http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/data
/.

11
. Ibid. You can watch the ups and downs of the organ list.

12
. Ibid.

13
. Dr. Sally Satel, “About That New Jersey Organ Scandal,” American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, July 26, 2009,
www.aei.org/article/100806
.

14
. Benjamin E. Hippen, “Organ Sales and Moral Travails: Lessons from the Living Kidney Vendor Program in Iran,” Cato Institute, Policy Analysis no. 614, March 20, 2008.

15
.
Supra
note 13.

16
. David E. Harrington and Edward A. Sayre, “Paying for Bodies, But Not for Organs,” Cato Institute, 2006,
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv29n4/v29n4-1.pdf
.

17
. Supra
note 9.

18
. Ibid.

19
. Alex Tabarrok, “The Meat Market,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 8, 2010.

20
. Supra
note 13.

21
. Ibid.

22
.
Supra
note 19.

23
. Ibid.

24
. Ibid.

25
. “Number of U.S. ESRD Patients Exceeds 500,000,”
Renal Business Today
, September 19, 2008,
http://www.renalbusiness.com/hotnews/half-million-esrd-patients.html
.

26
. Dr. Sally Satel, “Organs for Sale,” November 2006,
http://www.sallysatelmd.com/html/a-amer01.html
.

27
. Virginia Postrel, “. . . With Functioning Kidneys for All,”
The Atlantic
,
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/07/with-functioning-kidneys-for-all/7587
/.

28
. Ibid.

29
. Gary S. Becker and Julio Jorge Elías, “Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations,” University of Chicago, 2002,
http://home.uchicago.edu/~gbecker/MarketforLiveandCadavericOrganDonations_Becker_Elias.pdf
.

30
.
Supra
note 19.

31
. Ibid.

32
. Ibid.

33
. Ibid.

34
.
Supra
note 9.

35
. Ibid.

36
. Jon Gettman, “Lost Taxes and Other Costs of Marijuana Laws,”
Drugscience.org
,
http://www.drugscience.org/Archive/bcr4/3Availability.html
.

37
. “The Alcohol Link,” Uncle Mike's Library, April 13, 2009,
http://www.unclemikesresearch.com/the-alcohol-link
/.

38
. Ibid.

39
. John Stossel, “End the Drug War,”
Creators.com
,
http://www.creators.com/opinion/john-stossel/end-the-drug-war.html
.

40
. Ibid.

41
. Ibid.

42
. Dr. Jeffrey A. Miron, “The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition,” Marijuana Policy Project, June 2005,
http://www.prohibitioncosts.org/mironreport.html
.

43
. Ibid.

44
.
http://www.prohibitioncosts.org
/.

45
. Randy Balko, “A Drug Raid Goes Viral,”
Reason
August 2010,
http://reason.com/archives/2010/07/16/a-drug-raid-goes-viral
.

46
. Ibid.

Chapter 8

1
. James A. Donald, “Natural Law and Natural Rights,”
Jim.com
,
http://jim.com/rights.html
.

2
.
McDonald v. City of Chicago
, 2010 U.S. LEXIS 5523, at *47 (2010).

3
. For a historical overview of Kristallnacht and the 1938 pogroms please see the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition,
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/kristallnacht/frame.htm
.

4
. Michael Berenbaum, “Kristallnacht,” Encyclopaedia Britannica Online,
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/323626/Kristallnacht
.

5
. Kathy Chang, “Those Who Were There Remember Kristallnacht, Holocaust,”
Greater Media Newspapers
,
http://ws.gmnews.com/news/2009-12-16/front_page/006.html
.

6
.
Supra
note 3.

7
. Robert Faurisson, “The Warsaw Ghetto ‘Uprising': Jewish Insurrection or German Police Operation?”
Journal of Historical Review
14, no. 2 (March 1994): 2–5.

8
. James T. Areddy, “Staring Down the Barrel: The Rise of Guns in China,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 14, 2008.

9
. Information from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI),
http://www.sipri.org
/. Please see the databases for yearly data.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Cong., 2d Sess. (1982), SuDoc# Y4.J 89/2: Ar 5/5, emphasis added.

12
. Brady Handgun Control Act, 103rd Cong. (Pub.L. 103-159, 107 Stat. 1536), (1993).

13
. John R. Lott Jr.,
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 237 (for a complete statistical analysis of gun control laws and the negative impact they have on the country and local communities).

14
. Gary Kleck,
Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America
(Piscataway, NJ: Aldine Transaction, 1991), 47–48.

15
. Dr. Paul H. Blackman, “The Armed Criminal in America,” National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, September 9, 2003,
http://www.nraila.org/issues/articles/read.aspx?id=117
.

16
.
Supra
note 1.

17
. Nicole Marshall and Matt Barnard, “Intruder Who Was Shot, Killed by Tulsa County Homeowner Identified,”
Tulsa World
, April 2, 2010,
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20100402_11_0_TURLEY322310
.

18
.
Supra
note 13 at 241.

19
. Ibid.

20
. “When Mass Killers Meet Armed Resistance,”
Freestudentsblogspot.com
, April 18, 2007,
http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2007/04/when-mass-killers-meet-armed-resistance.html
.

21
. Massad Ayoob, “Meet Otis McDonald,”
Backwoods Home Magazine
, March 17, 2010,
http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/2010/03/17/meet-otis-mcdonald
/.

22
. Ibid.

23
.
Supra
note 2 at 15.

24
. Ibid., 43.

Chapter 9

1
. Joseph R. Strayer,
On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973), 18.

2
. 4 Parl. Hist. Eng. 1774 (1700).

3
. “Seditious Libel,”
The Free Dictionary
,
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Seditious+Libel
.

4
. 10 H.C. Jour. 1688–93, at 1 (1803), given at the Court in the Hague, October 10, 1688.

5
. Stephen A. Higginson, “A Short History of the Right to Petition Government for Redress of Grievances,” 96 Yale L.J. 142, 153 (1986).

6
. Ibid., 149.

7
. “A Petition Clause Analysis of Suits Against the Government: Implications for Rule 11 Sanctions,” 106 Harv. L. Rev. 1111, 1115 (1993).

8
.
Commonwealth v. Beaumarchai
s, 7
Va
. 122 (1801) (opinion of Edmunton, C.J.), emphasis added.

9
.
Bi-Metallic Investment Co. v. State Board of Equalization
, 239
U.S
. 441 (1915).

10
. W. Channing,
Remarks on the Slavery Question, in a Letter to Jonathan Phillips, Esq
. (Boston: J. Munroe, 1839), 15, 17.

11
.
Supra
note 5 at 158.

12
.
www.mlkonline.net/dream.html
.

Chapter 10

1
. This anecdote is based on Robert B. Stinnett,
Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
(New York: Free Press, 2000).

2
. “The McCollum Memo,”
Whatreallyhappened.com
, October 7, 1940,
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/McCollum/index.html
.

3
. Laurence M. Vance, “Rethinking the Good War,”
Lewrockwell.com
, 2009,
http://www.lwerockwell.com/vance/vance181.html
.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Bettina Bien Greaves, “Japan's Gift to FDR,”
Lewrockwell.com
, June 29, 2010,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11greaves1.1.1.html
.

6
. Anne Leland and Mari-Jana Oboroceanu,
American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics
, Congressional Research Service, February 26, 2010,
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/139347.pdf
.

7
. Robert Higgs,
Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11
(Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2005). Much of the content for this chapter is inspired by this book, which is both brilliant and provocative in its exploration of the 9/11 crisis.

8
. Ibid., 24.

9
. Robert Higgs, “What's So Special About Those Killed by Hijackers on September 11, 2001?”
Lewrockwell.com
, September 13, 2003,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs21.html
.

10
.
Supra
note 7 at 67.

11
. Robert Higgs, “If We're Really in Danger, Why Doesn't the Government Act as If We're in Danger?” Independent Institute, October 28, 2002,
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=114
.

12
. Ibid.