Lies the government told you (46 page)
16
. “Government Misconduct,” The Innocence Project,
http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/Government-Misconduct.php
.
17
.
Addington v. Texas
, 441 U.S. 418, 429 (1979).
18
.
http://blog.mises.org.archives/007037.asp; “DEA Returns Tucker’s Cash,” ACLU,
www.aclu-nm.org/News_Events/news_10_3_07.html.
19
.
U.S. v. $124,700
, 05-3295 (8th Cir. 2006).
20
. See my article entitled “The Case Against Military Tribunals,” November 29, 2009,
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-napolitano29-2009nov29,0,6594004
.story.
21
. Richard M. Salsman, “The Three Myths of Antitrust, Part 4: ‘Arbitrary Law’,”
Capitalism Magazine
,
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=616
( Jul. 16, 2000).
22
. Ayn Rand,
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
, Centennial ed. (Signet, 1986), 51.
23
. Thomas E. Woods, Jr.,
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
(Regnery Publishing, 2004), 105.
24
. Thomas J. DiLorenzo, “The Antitrust Economists’ Paradox,”
Austrian Economics Newsletter
(Summer 1991), available at
http://mises.org/journals/scholar/DiLorenzo.
PDF.
25
. Ibid.
26
. D. T. Armentano, “A Politically Incorrect Guide to Antitrust Policy,” Ludvig von Mises Institute,
http://mises.org/story/2694
(Sept. 15, 2007).
27
. Ibid.
28
. Ibid.
29
.
United States v. Aluminum Co. of America
, 148 F.2d 416 (2d Cir. 1945).
Lie #13
1
. John Cochran, “New Gun Control Law Is Killer’s Legacy,”
ABC News,
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4126152
( Jan. 12, 2008).
2
. Ibid.
3
. Ibid.
4
. Ibid.
5
. Terence Hunt, “School violence stuns nation,”
Boulder Daily Camera
(May 21, 1999).
6
. Ibid.
7
. Ibid.
8
. Marc Lacey, “Clinton Recalls Columbine and Pushes for Gun Control,”
New York Times
,
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/13/us/clinton-recalls-columbine-and-pushes-for-gun-control.html?scp=1&sq=clinton%20recalls%20columbine%20 april%2013,%202000&st=cse
(Apr. 13, 2000).
9
. Joel Roberts, “University of Texas Tower Sniper Recalled,”
CBS News,
http://www .cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/16/national/main2689785.shtml
(Apr. 16, 2007).
10
. Ibid.
11
. Ibid.
12
. Buck Wroten, “University of Texas Tower Shooting, 1966, Buck Wroten,” Memory Archive,
http://www.memoryarchive.org/en/University_of_Texas_Tower_Shooting,_1966,_Buck_Wroten
.
13
. Pamela Colloff, “96 Minutes,”
TexasMonthly
,
http://www.texasmonthly.com/preview/2006-08-01/feature
(August 2006).
14
. Ibid.
15
. Joshunda Sanders, “UT students protest gun bill,” statesman.com,
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/ entries/2009/04/16/ut_students_protest_gun_bill.html
(Apr. 16, 2009).
16
. “World War II Rationing,”
http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/events/rationing.htm
.
17
. Ibid.
18
. Ibid.
19
. “World War II Rationing,”
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1674.html.
20
. William H. Rehnquist,
All the Laws but One
(New York: Knopf, 1998), 192.
21
. Ibid.
22
. Ibid.
23
. Ibid.
24
. Ibid.
25
. Ibid.
26
. Ibid.
27
.
Hirabayashi v. U.S
., 320 U.S. 81 (1943).
28
. Rehnquist,
All the Laws but One
, 198.
29
. Ibid.
30
. Ibid., 200.
31
. Ibid.
32
. Ibid.
33
. Frank H. Wu, “Profiling in the Wake of September 11: The Precedent of the Japanese American Internment,”
Criminal Justice Magazine
, 17, Issue 2 (Summer 2002), available at
http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/cjmag/17-2/japanese.html.
34
. Ibid.
35
. Sue Blevins, “The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: An Assault on Civil Liberties in the Name of Homeland Security,” The Heritage Foundation,
http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandSecurity/HL748.cfm
(Jun. 10, 2002).
36
. “The Model State Emergency Powers Act,” as of December 21, 2001,
http://www.publichealthlaw.net/MSEHPA/MSEHPA2.pdf
.
37
. Blevins, “The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act.”
38
. “Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) Turns Governors into Dictators,” Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc.,
http://www.aapsonline.org/ testimony/emerpower.htm
(Dec. 3, 2001).
39
. “The Model State Emergency Powers Act,” as of December 21, 2001,
http://www.publichealthlaw.net/MSEHPA/MSEHPA2.pdf
.
40
. Ibid.
41
. Ibid.
42
. Amitai Etzioni,
How Patriotic Is the Patriot Act?
, (New York: Routledge, 2005), 89.
43
. “Questions and Answers: Travel and Quarantine,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/qa/travel.htm
(May 3, 2005).
44
. Etzioni,
How Patriotic Is the Patriot Act?
, 89–90.
45
. Ibid., 90.
46
. Ron Paul, “International Bailout Brings Us Closer to Economic Collapse,” Inforwars,
http://www.infowars.com/international-bailout-brings-us-closer-to-economic-collapse
( Jun. 24, 2009).
47
. L. Gordon Crovitz,
RICO Racket
(Washington D.C.: National Legal Center for the Public Interest, 1989), 18.
48
. Ibid., 20.
49
. Samuel A. Alito in Crovitz,
RICO Racket
, 1–2.
50
. Ibid., 3.
51
. William Anderson and Candice E. Jackson, “Washington’s Biggest Crime Problem,”
Reason
magazine,
http://www.reason.com/news/show/29099.html
(April 2004).
52
. William Anderson, “Mick Vick and the Feds,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson194.html
(Aug. 20, 2007).
53
. Anderson and Jackson, “Washington’s Biggest Crime Problem.”
54
. William Anderson, “Aschroft and Justice: Mutual Exclusives,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson55.html
(Aug. 30, 2002).
55
. “High court won’t hear charges of RICO-misuse in suits,” LegalNewsLine.com,
http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/202624-high-court-wont-hear-charges-of-rico-misuse-in-suits
(Oct. 16, 2007).
Lie #14
1
. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, prior to sending American troops to fight in World War II.
2
. Ibid.
3
. Anne Leland and Mari-Jana Oboroceanu, “American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics,” Congressional Research Service,
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf
(Sept. 15, 2009).
4
. This section of the chapter is largely based on the book entitled
Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
, Robert B. Stinnett (New York: Touchstone, 2000).
5
. “The McCollum Memo” (Oct. 7, 1940), which can be found at
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/McCollum/index.html
.
6
. Donald E. Schmidt,
The Folly of War: American Foreign Policy, 1898–2005
(Algora Publishing: 2005), 144.
7
. “American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics.”
8
. President Roosevelt attended Columbia Law School, but passed the New York State Bar Exam before completing his studies, and never graduated.
9
. According to Article I, Section 8, of the United States Constitution, “The Congress has the Power To . . . declare War” (emphasis added). The Constitution nowhere grants such authority to the President, or any other government official or entity.
10
. This section of the chapter is largely based on Scott McClellan’s
What Happened?
(New York: Public Affairs, 2008). McClellan was one of President George W. Bush’s press secretaries. His book recounts his experiences at the Bush White House and Washington’s culture of deception.
Lie #15
1
. President George W. Bush.
2
.
Rasul v. Bush
, 542 U.S. 466, 473 (2004) (citations omitted).
3
. Doernberg, et al.,
Federal Courts, Federalism and Separation of Powers
, 4th ed. (St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2008), 1064.
4
.
Hamdi
, 542 U.S. 507 (2004).
5
. Jane Mayer,
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
(New York: Random House, 2008), 199.
6
.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
, 243 F. Supp. 2d 527 (E.D. Va. 2002).
7
. Ibid., 243 F. Supp. 2d at 536.
8
.
Hamdi
, 542
U.S. at 532.
9
. Ibid., 542 U.S. at 536.
10
. Toobin,
The Nine
, 275.
11
.
Rumsfeld v. Padilla
, 542 U.S. 426 (2004).
12
. Chemerinsky, Federal Jurisdiction, 906–7.
13
. Toobin,
The Nine
, 270.
14
. Ibid.
15
.
Rasul
, 542 U.S. 466 (2004).
16
. Shafiq Rasul was actually released before the decision was handed down, but remained as lead plaintiff.
17
. Toobin,
The Nine
, 269.
18
. Ibid.
19
.
Hamdan
, 548 U.S. 557 (2006).
20
.
Boumediene
, 128 U.S. 2229 (2008).
21
. In January 2009, Susan J. Crawford, a top Bush administration official, stated that the United States tortured Mohammed al-Qahtani. According to Crawford, Qahtani was subjected to nudity, sleep deprivation, sustained isolation, and prolonged exposure to cold. Qahtani currently has an action pending in federal court, challenging his confinement. (Source: Del Quentin Wilber and Julie Tate, “Detainee’s Lawyers to Get Interrogation Tapes,”
Washington Post
[Oct. 6, 2009]).
22
. Vice President Cheney, in an interview with
Nightline
,
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/IraqCoverage/story?id=1419206
(Dec. 18, 2005).
23
. Elizabeth Holtzman, “The Impeachment of George W. Bush,”
The Nation
,
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060130/holtzman
( Jan. 11, 2006).
24
. Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.
25
. Ibid.
26
. Ibid.
27
. Philippe Sands,
Torture Team
, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009), 8.
28
. Ibid., 7–8.
29
. Ibid., 7.
30
. Ibid., 8.
31
. Ibid., 9.
32
. Ibid., 13.
33
. Ibid.
34
. Ibid.
35
. John Barry, Michael Hirsh, and Michael Isikoff, “The Roots of Torture,”
Newsweek
,
http://www.newsweek.com/id/105387
(May 24, 2004).
36
. Ibid.
37
. Ibid.
38
. Ibid.
39
. Ibid.
40
. Ibid.
41
. Ibid.
42
. Ibid.
43
. Ibid.
44
. Ibid.
45
. Ibid.
46
. David Cole, “The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers,”
New York Review
(Oct. 8, 2009) (written Sept. 10, 2009).
47
. Ibid.
48
. Ibid.
49
. Ibid.
50
. Ibid.
51
. Ibid.
52
. Ibid.
53
. Ibid.
54
. Ibid.
55
. Ibid.
56
. Ibid.
57
. Sands, Torture Team, 3.
58
. Ibid.
59
. Ibid., 3–4.
60
. Ibid., 5.
61
. Ibid.
62
. Bryan Walsh, “Waterboarding: A Mental and Physical Trauma,” Time.com,
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1892721,00.html
(Apr. 20, 2009).
63
. Ibid.
64
. Ibid.
65
. Ibid.
66
. Ibid.
67
. Ibid.
68
. It is interesting to note that Cheney and his general counsel, David Addington, theorized that torture could not actually be considered torture unless the subject suffered a near-death experience. A CIA doctor, however, noted that torture always constitutes a near-death experience. Therefore, Cheney and the Bush administration had actually been violating their own rationale.
69
. Cole, “The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers.”
70
. Ibid.
71
. Ibid.
72
. Ibid.
73
. Ibid.
74
. Ibid.
75
. Ibid.
76
. Ibid.
77
. Ibid.
78
. Ibid.
79
. Ibid.
80
.
Chavez v. Martinez
, 538 U.S. 760 (2003).
81
. Ibid.