The Police State

The second noticeable consequence of the state's activity in everybody's business but its own is that its own business is monstrously neglected.

The law should focus on violations of person and property, not scientific oddities like blood content.

So it is with the security state. We give it power, we permit it to run itself with no oversight, we put up with its excesses, and we have a hard time imagining what life would be like without it.

Delivered at the Mises Institute on July 6, 2006.

Under what law should the heads of governments be tried? Lew Rockwell writes that if they are tried according to every-day moral law, they would all be in big trouble.

The libertarian creed, writes Murray Rothbard, emerged from the "classical liberal" movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Western world.

According to the SAF, the City of New Orleans will return the guns that were stolen by the polic

Writes Jeffrey Tucker: even that law which appears to be a mere guideline and a help--such as a stop sign--must ultimately be enforced by jails and violence.