Lies the government told you (44 page)

73
. Ibid.

74
. Ibid.

Lie #5

1
. Justice William Brennan’s majority opinion in
New York Times v. Sullivan
, 376 U.S. 254, 270 (1964).

2
. Geoffrey R. Stone, et al.,
The First Amendment
, 3rd. ed. (New York: Wolters Kluwer, 2008), 20.

3
.
Schenck v. United States
, 249 U.S. 47 (1919).

4
.
Frohwerk
, 249 U.S. 204 (1919); Debs, 249 U.S. 211 (1919).

5
. Stone,
The First Amendment
, 30.

6
. Ibid., 31.

7
. Charles Paul Freund, “Dixiecrats Triumphant: The Menacing Mr. Wilson,” reason .com,
http://reason.com/archives/2002/12/18/dixiecrats-triumphant
(Dec. 18, 2002).

8
. Ibid.

9
. Ibid.

10
.
Abrams v. United States
, 250 U.S. 616 (1919).

11
.
Whitney v. California
, 274 U.S. 357 (1927).

12
. Stone,
The First Amendment
, 41.

13
. Ibid.

14
.
Brandenburg v. Ohio
, 395 U.S. 444 (1969).

15
.
Virginia Board
, 425 U.S. 748 (1976).

16
.
Central Hudson
, 447 U.S. 557 (1980).

17
.
Edenfield
, 507 U.S. 761, 700 (1993).

18
.
44 Liquormart
, 517 U.S. 484 (1996).

19
.
44 Liquormart
, 517 U.S. at 503 (citations omitted).

20
.
Lorillard
, 533 U. S. 525 (2001).

21
.
Lorillard
, 533 U.S. at 564.

22
. Duff Wilson, “Senate Approves Tight Regulation over Cigarettes,”
New York Times
( June 12, 2009).

23
. Duff Wilson, “Tobacco Regulation Is Expected to Face a Free-Speech Challenge,”
New York Times
,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/business/12tobacco.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=senate%20approves%20tight%20regulation%20over%20 cigarettes&st=cse
( June 16, 2009).

24
. Ibid.

25
. Ibid.

26
. Ibid.

27
.
Erznoznik
, 422 U.S. 205 (1975).

28
.
Sable Communications, Inc. v. FCC
, 492 U.S. 115 (1989).

29
.
Sable Communications
, 492 U.S. 115 at 131.

30
. Val E. Limburg, “Fairness Doctrine,” the Museum of Broadcast Communications,
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etc/F/
htmlF/fairnessdoct/fairnessdoct.htm.

31
. Ibid.

32
. Ibid.

33
.
Red Lion
, 395 U.S. 367 (1969).

34
. Brian Jennings,
Censorship: The Threat To Silence Talk Radio
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2009), 15–17.

35
. Ibid.

36
. Limburg, “Fairness Doctrine.”

37
. Ibid.

38
. Jennings,
Censorship
, 28.

39
. “Talk Show Hosts May Be Accomplices Under Hate Bill,”
Examiner.com
, http://www .examiner.com/x-9462-LA-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2009m6d26-Talk-show-host-can-be-prosecuted-as-accomplices-under-new-senate-hate-bill?cid=exrss-LA-Nonpartisan-Examiner ( June 26, 2009).

Lie #6

1
. “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms,” Report of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, February 1982, preface by Orrin G. Hatch.

2
. Adapted from John Twelve Hawks’s
The Traveler
: “If privacy had a tombstone, it would read this was for your own good.”

3
. “Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”—Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting in
Olmstead v. United States
, 277 U.S. 438, 479 (1928).

4
. 26 U.S.C. ch. 53, available at
http://www.atf.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/nfa.htm.

5
. Lawrence H. Officer and Samuel H. Williamson, “Purchasing Power of Money in the United States from 1774 to 2008,” MeasuringWorth,
http://www.measuringworth.com/ppowerus/index.php
(2009).

6
.
Sonzinsky v. United States
, 300 U.S. 506 (1937).

7
.
Child Labor Tax Cases.

8
. Interestingly, armies in the past had often used the short-barreled rifle as part of their military equipment. Therefore, whether intentionally or inadvertently, the federal government lied to the Supreme Court.

9
. The Supreme Court avoided the Second Amendment issue until 2008 and the Heller case. There were some cases that addressed the Second Amendment in dicta, but none set precedent regarding the Amendment’s meaning.

10
. Stephen P. Holbrook, “Nazi Firearms Laws and the Disarming of the German Jews,”
Arizona Journal of International and Comparitive Law
17, no. 3, 483–535 (2000).

11
. “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms.”

12
.. Earl R. Kruschke,
Gun Control: A Reference Handbook
(Santa Barbara: ABC–CLIO, 1994).

13
. Gregg Lee Carter,
Gun Control in the United States: A Reference Handbook
(Santa Barbara: ABL–CLIO, 2006), 150.

14
. John R. Lott Jr., “More ‘Assault Weapons,’ Less Crime,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lott/lott42.html
( Jun. 29, 2005).

15
. Ibid.

16
. John Ross,
Self-Defense Laws and Violent Crime Rates in the United States.

17
. Gary Kleck,
Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America
(Aldine Transaction, 1991).

18
. Don B. Kates Jr., “Supreme Court Affirms Individual Right: What’s Next?” the Independent Institute,
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2247
( Jun. 26, 2008).

19
. Robert A. Levy, “Pistol Whipped: Baseless Lawsuits, Foolish Laws,” Cato Institute Policy Analysis, No. 400,
www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1259
(May 9, 2001).

20
. Though typically attributed to Benjamin Franklin by a wide variety of sources, others have claimed that it was developed by a newspaper journalist in the twentieth century. The opinions and accuracies of such attribution vary. Since it sounds like Ben Franklin, I attribute it to him.

21
. This may sound unbelievable but it appears in the Congressional Record-House on February 8, 1995, at page H1381, along with a long list of other BATF transgressions.

22
. “The Right to Keep and Bear Arms.”

23
. Bill Miller, “Twist of Fate Turns Teacher’s Source of Protection into Tormentor,”
Washington Post
, November 19, 1992, as cited in “H.R. 666 and the Assault on the Bill of Rights,” available at
http://gunowners.org/fs9506.htm.

24
. David Weigel, “Dick Heller Get Your Gun,”
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/127643.html
.

25
. For a detailed exposition of the applicability of the “state interest of the highest order” doctrine to First Amendment rights, as well as the way that it has been largely ignored and put on a back burner, see my article, “Whatever Happened to Freedom of Speech? A Defense of ‘State Interest of the Highest Order’ as a Unifying Standard for Erratic First Amendment Jurisprudence,” Published in
Seton Hall Law Review
, 29, 1999.

26
.
Maloney v. Cuomo
, 554 F.3d 56 (2d Cir. 2009).

27
. “Obama explains his support of the assault weapons ban,” John Lott’s Blogspot,
http:johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-explains-his-support-of-assault.html.

28
. John Lott, “The new assault weapons ban will not reduce crime in this country,” Fox Forum at foxnews.com (Feb. 26, 2009).

29
. Joshua Rhett Miller, “Gun Advocates Ready for Battle on Federal Assault Weapons Ban,” foxnews.com (Mar. 17, 2009).

30
. This comparison is taken from Stephen P. Halbrook’s “What the Framer’s Intended: A Linguistic Analysis of the Right to ‘Bear Arms,’” Part IV, available at
http://www .stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/linguistic-analysis.pdf
.

Lie #7

1
. Murray N. Rothbard,
For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
(San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes, 1996), 111.

2
. John Tierney, “Health Halo Can Hide the Calories,”
New York Times
,
http://www .nytimes.com/2008/12/02/science/02tier.html?_r=2
(Dec. 1, 2008).

3
. Anemolla Hartocollis, “Restaurants Prepare for Big Switch: No Trans Fat,”
New York Times
,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/nyregion/21trans.html
( Jun. 21, 2008).

4
. “Obama Selects Frieden as CDC Director,”
http://www.foxnews.com/ politics/2009/05/15/report-obama-selects-frieden-cdc-director
(May 15, 2009).

5
. Niv Elis, “FDA Regulates Tobacco, And Phillip Morris Cheers,”
Forbes.com
,
http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/11/fda-smoking-cigarettes-business-healthcare-tobacco.html
( Jun. 11, 2009).

6
. Gardiner Harris, “F.D.A. Bans Sale of Flavored Cigarettes,”
New York Times
(Sept. 23, 2009).

7
. Ibid.

8
. Chris Conrad,
Hemp: Lifeline to the Future
(Sacramento: FS Book Company, 1994), 192–203.

9
. Claire Suddath, “The War on Drugs,”
Time
,
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1887488,00.htm
(Mar. 25, 2009).

10
. Ibid.

11
. The information on the Marihuana Tax Act comes from Paul Armentano’s article, “How the Feds Got Into the Pot Prohibition Business,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/armentano-p/armentano-p43.1.html
(Sept. 4, 2009).

12
.
Gonzales v. Raich
, 545 U.S. 1, 7 (2005).

13
.
Raich
, 545 U.S. at 17.

14
.
Raich
, 545 U.S. at 57–58.

15
. “To Allow or Deny?: Opposing Views on Access to Experimental Drugs,” Stanford Scientific,
http://www.stanfordscientific.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72:a-passion-for-service&catid=42:volume-6-issue-2&Itemid=59
(Feb. 23, 2008).

16
. Ibid.

17
. Ibid.

18
. Kerry Howley, “Dying for Lifesaving Drugs,”
Reason
Magazine,
http://www.reason .com/news/show/120763.html
(August/September 2007).

19
. Steven Walker and Dan Popeo, “Trends,”
Milken Institute Review
,
http://site03 .sequoia.fuzint.com/upload/MilkenReviewArticle.pdf
(First Quarter, 2004).

20
. Howley, “Dying for Lifesaving Drugs.”

21
. Ibid.

22
.
Abigail Alliance
, 445 F.3d 470 (D.C. Cir. 2006).

23
. 445 F.3d at 480.

24
. 445 F.3d at 486.

25
. Bill Sardi, “Manhunt Medicine: Forced Cancer Treatment,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi110.html
(May 26, 2009).

26
. “Daniel Hauser angry over continuing chemo,”
http://www.news.com.au/ story/0,27574,25683954-401,00.html
( Jun. 24, 2009).

27
. Sardi, “Manhunt Medicine: Forced Cancer Treatment.”

28
. Radley Balko, “Who’s in Charge of Your Health?” reason.com,
http://www.reason.com/news/show/133689.html
(May 26, 2009).

Lie #8

1
. Murray Rothbard,
The Case Against the Fed
(Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1994), 116. See
http://mises.org/books/fed.pdf.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Rexford G. Tugwell, “A Center Report: Rewriting the Constitution,”
Center magazine
(March 1968), 18–20.

4
. Telephone Interview with Larry Parks ( Jul. 15, 2009).

5
. John Rubino and Jim Quinn, “It Started with Ron Paul,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/quinn/quinn14.1.html
(Sept. 5, 2009).

6
. Murray Rothbard,
The Case Against the Fed
, 74.

7
. This quote is attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1790). See
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/mayer_amschel_rothschild
.

8
. Upon the eve of the creation of the Federal Reserve Board, Congressman Charles Lindberg Sr. (the grandfather of the famous aviator of the same name) said, “The money trust deliberately caused the 1907 money panic and thereby forced Congress to create a National Monetary Commission which led to the ultimate creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. The Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic monetary trust on earth. When the President signs the bill, the invisible government of the Monetary Powers will be legalized. The people must make a declaration of independence to relieve themselves from the Monetary Powers, by taking control of Congress! . . . The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking bill. The caucus and the party bosses have again operated and prevented the people from getting the benefit of their own government!” (Available at
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/56117
).

9
. Ron Paul,
Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution After 200 Years
(Auburn, AL: Ludvig von Mises Institute, 1988), 113. See
http://mises.org/books/fed.pdf.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Eustace Mullins,
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve
( John McLaughlin, 1993), chap. 2.