The Lesson of Pinochet’s Arrest
The British arrest of General Augusto Pinochet provides stunning proof of why the United States should never join the International Criminal Court (ICC). Traveling to London on a…
Category: Law and Order
Why Is Congress Criminalizing Copyright Law?
A new plan to straitjacket the American public by criminalizing a common American practice is hidden in the WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act. Powerful Hollywood and software corporations…
Lessons from the Paula Jones Case
We may never get satisfactory legal answers, or even political answers, to the many questions raised by the Clinton sex scandals. But we are learning some social and…
Don’t Let Janet Reno Read Our E-mail
The personal privacy of individual American citizens is rapidly eroding on every front. Advancing technology has made it easier for government agencies, the police, credit bureaus, telemarketers, and…
Encryption Is Essential to Freedom
The Clinton Administration sent three of its spokesmen to Capitol Hill last week to plead the case for “key escrow” before the House Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual…
Stop Federalizing Local Crimes
The hearings and report of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information prove again the importance and value of Congressional investigations. This function of Congress…
Let’s Punish Criminals, Not Snoop on Private Citizens
Are the Republicans in Congress going to roll over and let the Clinton Administration use the Oklahoma City tragedy as an excuse to establish a federal police state…
How the Schools Produce Juvenile Delinquents
Study after study of adolescents at correctional institutions has shown that the one thing they have in common is that they cannot-read. With a research grant funded by the…
