Tom Engelhardt on the police state.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt153.html

http://www.mises.org/store/Rise-and-Decline-of-the-State-The-P271C0.aspx?AFID=1


Informant: Lew Rockwell

The Only Question for Alito That Matters
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/silverglate6.html

Did the president break the law by ordering domestic spying? NOW investigates.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011206I.shtml

In his deadpan bureaucrat's voice, Judge Alito has said some truly disturbing things about his view of the law. In three days of testimony, he has given the American people reasons to be worried - and senators reasons to oppose his nomination, writes the New York Times.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011206G.shtml

Two authors take the opportunity to reflect on today's significance as the fourth anniversary of the existence of the notoriously sinister American prison at Guantanamo.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011206C.shtml

The Department of Interior on Wednesday approved oil and gas drilling on Alaska land, considered such a sensitive wildlife habitat that it was first protected by former Interior Secretary James G. Watt under President Reagan, and by four Interior secretaries since.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011206B.shtml

Yahoo! News
by Richard Reeves

01/06/06

Among politicians, I have watched more than a few friends and acquaintances go off to prison. There are no hard and fast rules for corruption, but I have noticed that many Republicans go wrong because they believe that it is business as usual, un-American to pass up a chance at profit. They do what comes naturally in the private sector, but some of what comes naturally to a speculator is against the law for a public servant. Democrats I've known have gone wrong because they came to believe they had earned their way into a privileged class, complete with free meals and vacations, life on the fast track. Then comes a day, often when they are first faced with college tuitions for their children, that they realize they can't afford the life of the people asking, begging them for little favors. They step onto the slippery slope of favors and loans and then bribes...

http://tinyurl.com/be9gy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Two--Four
by Billy Beck

01/10/06

We'll get tapped again. For sure. However, I also do not -- cannot -- believe that everything this government is cranking up will be worth the payoff in terms of identifying and/or neutralizing the threat[s]. More and more, these people will not be able to get out of their own way -- all while they're killing everything in the essential spirit of Americans which is necessary to keeping them in the fight. ... I am convinced that we are at the final turning point. Liberty really is finally being traded for security, and I can never endorse that. Not under any circumstances...

http://www.two--four.net/weblog.php?id=P2072


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp