Lies the government told you (45 page)

12
. Ibid.

13
. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is applicable to all government agencies.

14
. A. Ralph Epperson,
The Unseen Hand
(Tucson, AZ: Publius Press, 1985), 175.

15
. “Executive Orders Disposition Tables: John F. Kennedy—1963,”
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/1963-kennedy.html
.

16
. “JFK vs. Federal Reserve,”
http://foundationfortruthinlaw.org/jfk-vs-fed.html
; July 25, 2008 post on
Daily Paul
entitled, “JFK & Executive Order 11110,”
http://www .dailypaul.com/node/56117
.

17
. Friedrich A. Hayek, “A Free-Market Monetary System,” lecture delivered at the Gold and Monetary Conference in New Orleans, on November 19, 1977 (available at
http://mises.org/story/3204
).

18
. Murray Rothbard, “Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure,” Ludvig von Mises Institute,
http://mises.org/story/3127,
26.

19
. This chapter is based on explanations provided by G. Edward Griffin, “A
Talk by G. Edward Griffin,”
www.bigeye.com/griffin.htm.

20
. Mike Ziegler, “Good as Gold,”
Liberty Watch
,
www.libertywatch.com/volume03/issue08/coverstory.php
.

21
. Ibid.

22
. Ibid.

23
. Joan Whitley, “Four Month Trial Ends with No Convictions,”
Las Vegas Review-Journal,
http://www.lvrj.com/news/9893062.html
(Sept. 20, 2007).

24
. Statement by Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, before the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, October 19, 1993,
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4126/is_n12_v79/ai_14725422/pg_4/
.

25
. Noted by Congressman Ron Paul in a July 20, 1979, speech to the House of Representatives. Ron Paul,
Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property
, (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008), 105.

26
. Vin Suprynowicz, “Not Worth A Continental,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www .lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz88.html
(Aug. 8, 2008).

27
. Gene Epstein, “Freedom from the Fed Fix,”
Barron’s
,
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB121702626696486253.html?mod=9_0031_b_this_weeks_magazine_columns
( Jul. 28, 2008).

28
. Patrice Hill, “Federal Reserve to Gain Power Under Plan,”
Washington Times
( Jun.16, 2009).

Lie #9

1
.
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/nothing_is_so_permanent_as_a_temporary_ government/191475.html
.

2
.
http://www.dictionary-quotes.com/the-government-solution-to-a-problem-is-usually-as-bad-as-the-problem-milton-friedman/
.

3
. Timothy J. Gillis,
Taxation & National Destiny: A Tax Systems Analysis and Proposal
, (San Diego: Maximus Profectus, 1999), 17.

4
. “Fact Sheets: Taxes,” from the United States Department of the Treasury,
http://www.treasury.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml
.

5
. Gillis,
Taxation & National Destiny
, 32.

6
. Mark Schmidt, “Income Tax Withholding: Why ‘First Dibs’ for Uncle Sam Leaves Taxpayers Finishing Last,” National Taxpayers Union,
http://www.ntu.org/main/press.php?PressID=256&org_name=NTU
(Jul. 29, 2002).

7
. Ibid.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Ibid.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Ibid.

12
. Ibid.

13
. Ibid.

14
. Brian Doherty, “Best of Both Worlds: Milton Friedman reminisces about his career as an economist and his lifetime ‘avocation’ as a spokesman for freedom,”
Reason magazine
,
http://reason.com/archives/1995/06/01/best-of-both-worlds
( June 1995).

15
. Ibid.

16
. Ibid.

17
. David Henderson, “Government Greed,”
Reason magazine
,
http://reason.com/archives/1999/04/01/government-greed
(April 1999).

18
. Doherty, “Best of Both Worlds.”

19
. Daniel J. Mitchell, “Defending Ron Paul’s Tax Plan,” Cato @ Liberty (a Cato Institute blog),
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2007/11/09/defending-ron-pauls-tax-plan
(Nov. 9, 2007).

20
. glassbooth,
http://glassbooth.org/explore/index/bob-barr/19/taxes-and-budget/13.

21
. Frank Chodorov, “Taxation Is Robbery,” Ludvig von Mises Institute,
http://mises.org/etexts/taxrob.asp
.

22
. Gregory Bresiger, “Housing Socialism,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bresiger/bresiger20.html
(Sept. 14, 2006).

23
. Ibid.

24
. “Rent Control,” a message from Malcolm Gladwell to Jacob Weisberg,
Slate
http:// www.slate.com/id/3651/entry/11183
(May 20, 1997).

25
. Becky Akers, “Wretched Rangel’s Angles and Wrangles,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers89.html
( Jul. 19, 2008).

26
. Ibid.

27
. Ibid.

28
. Thomas Sowell, “Social Security: The Enron That Politicians Have In the Closet,”
Capitalism Magazine
,
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1505
(Mar. 23, 2002).

29
. Ibid.

30
. Office of Management and Budget’s Mid-Session Review, Fiscal Year 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/pdf/09msr.pdf.

31
. Dale Steinreich, “Social Security Reform: True and False,” Ludvig von Mises Institute,
http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=160&sortorder=articledate
(Oct. 1996).

32
. Ibid.

Lie #10

1
. Ronald Reagan’s Remarks to Representatives of the Future Farmers of America, July 28, 1988,
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/072888c.htm.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Tiffany Sharples, “A Brief History of: FEMA,”
Time.com
,
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1837231,00.html
(Aug. 28, 2008).

4
. See my article entitled “Franklin Delano Bush,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/napolitano1.html
(Sept. 24, 2005).

5
. William L. Anderson,
“Katrina and the Never-Ending Scandal of State Management,” Ludvig von Mises Institute,
http://mises.org/story/1909
(Sept. 13, 2005).

6
. Sheila Kaplan, “FEMA covered up cancer risks to Katrina victims,”
Salon.com
,
http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2008/01/29/fema_coverup/index.html
( Jan. 29, 2008).

7
. Rick Jervis, “Thousands still in FEMA trailers,”
USA Today
,
http://www.usatoday .com/news/nation/2009-06-28-fema-trailers_N.htm
( Jun. 29, 2009).

8
.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/25/cbsnews_investigates/main4828884.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody
.

9
. “FEMA Dissolves Gulf Coast Recovery Office,” CBSNews.com,
http://www .cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/09/cbsnews_investigates/main4932321.shtml
(Apr. 9, 2009).

10
. “Hurricane Ike—Hotline Calls—Gaps—Summary 9/14/08,” Disaster Accountability Blog,
http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/09/15/hurricane-ike-hotline-calls-gaps-summary-91408
(Sept. 15, 2008).

11
. “Information Limited, Frustrations Grow,” Disaster Accountability Blog
http://blog.disasteraccountability.com/2008/09/18/information-limited-frustrations-grow
(Sept. 18, 2008).

12
. John Whitehead, “More on rebuilding New Orleans: Lessons from Princeville, NC,”
Environmental Economics
,
http://www.env-econ.net/2005/09/more_on_rebuild.html
(Sept. 6, 2005).

13
. Amy Liu and Nigel Holmes, “The State of New Orleans: An Update,”
New York Times
(Aug. 28, 2009).

14
. Ibid.

15
. Ibid.

16
. Ibid.

17
. Ibid.

18
. Ibid.

19
. Ibid.

20
. Ibid.

21
. “FEMA public affairs team wins ‘prize’,” Disaster Accountability Blog,
http://blog .disasteraccountability.com/2007/12/11/femas-prize-winning-public-affairs-team
(Dec. 11, 2007).

22
. Jim Grichar, “Abolish the FDA!!” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grichar/grichar17.html
(May 19, 2003).

23
. “FDA to Require Chantix, Zyban to Carry ‘Strongest’ Suicide, Depression Warning,” Associated Press,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529738,00.html
( Jul. 1, 2009).

24
. Grichar, “Abolish the Fed!!”

25
. Jane Zhang, Julie Jargon, and A. J. Miranda, “Tomato industry stews amid salmonella outbreak,”
San Diego Union-Tribune
,
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080702/news_1n2tomatoes.html
(
Wall Street Journal
, Jul. 2, 2008).

26
. Ibid.

Lie #11

1
. Brian Doherty, “Prohibition = Violence,”
reason.com
,
http://www.reason.com/news/show/34755.html
( Jan. 29, 2003).

2
. Ibid.

3
. Ibid.

4
. Ethan Nadelmann, “Can We Really Afford a (Failed) War on Drugs?” commonwealthclub.org,
http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/03/03-07nadelmann-speech.html
( Jul. 24, 2003).

5
. Ethan Nadelmann, “Canada Must Not Follow the U.S. on Drug Policy,” Drug Policy Alliance,
http://www.drugpolicy.org/library/ottawa022207.cfm
(
Ottawa Citizen
, Feb. 22, 2007).

6
. Nadelmann, “Can We Really Afford a (Failed) War on Drugs?”.

7
. Anthony Gregory, “The Evil War on Drugs,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory106.html
(Feb. 1, 2006).

8
. “Drug raids gone bad,”
Philadelphia Daily News
,
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20090320_DRUG_RAIDS_GONE_BAD.html?page=2&c=y
(Mar. 20, 2009).

9
.
http://www.startribune.com/nation/59045917.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMEaPc:UiacyKUzyaP37D_MDua_eyD5PcOiUr.

10
.
https://www.cato.org/realaudio/drugwar/papers/duke.html.

11
. Ibid.

12
. Radley Balko and Joel Berger, “Wrong Door,” Cato Institute,
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6651
(
Wall Street Journal
, Sept. 2, 2006).

13
. Ibid.

14
. Radley Balko, “No SWAT,”
Slate
,
http://www.slate.com/id/2139458
(Apr. 6, 2006).

15
. Jacob G. Hornberger, “Why Does America Have a Drug War?” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger159.html
(Apr. 22, 2009).

16
. “Police: Shooting of Elderly Woman ‘Tragic, Unfortunate’,” wsbtv.com,
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/10374909/detail.html
(Nov. 21, 2006).

17
. “Terrorism,” Drug Policy Alliance Network,
http://www.drugpolicy.org/global/terrorism
(last updated on July 19, 2004).

18
. “Mexico Under Siege: ‘It’s a War’,”
Los Angeles Times
,
http://projects.latimes.com/mexico-drug-war/#/its-a-war
.

19
. Richard Marosi, “Mexico Under Siege: For Tijuana children, drug war gore is part of their school day,”
Los Angeles Times
,
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-tijuana25-2008oct25,0,2076621.story
(Oct. 25, 2008).

20
. Ibid.

21
. Murray Rothbard,
For A New Liberty: The Libertarian
Manifesto
,
http://mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp#p94, 112
.

22
. Quote can be found at
http://www.freedomkeys.com/kneejerk1.htm.

23
. Written in the
Wall Street Journal
, Sept. 7, 1989, and can be found at
http://www .freedomkeys.com/kneejerk1.htm
.

Lie #12

1
.
Hedgepeth v. Washington Metro Area Transit Authority
, 386 F.3d 1148 (D.C. Cir. 2004).

2
. Alexander Volokh, “n Guilty Men,” 146 U. Pa. L. Rev., 173 (1997) (quoting from
Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England
, 1765–1769).

3
. Noting that the Book of Exodus commands, “The innocent and righteous slay thou not,” Alexander Volokh, “n Guilty Men.”

4
.
Coffin v. U.S.
, 156 U.S. 432, 453 (1895).

5
.
Stack v. Boyle
, 342 U.S. 1, 4 (1951).

6
. Francois Quintard-Morenas, “The Presumption of Innocence in the French and Anglo-American Legal Traditions,” (
American Journal of Comparative Law
, forthcoming January 2010), p. 34, available at
http://works.bepress.com/francois_quintard_morenas/1/
.

7
. Ibid., 35.

8
.
Wolfish v. Levi,
573 F.2d 118, 124 (2nd Cir. 1978).

9
.
Bell v.Wolfish
, 441 U.S. 520 (1979).

10
. Quintard-Morenas, “The Presumption of Innocence in the Civil and Common Law Traditions,” 36.

11
.
Buzynski v. Oliver
, 538 F. 2d 6 (1st Cir. 1976).

12
.
Davis v. United States
, 160 U.S. 469, 486 (1895).

13
.
Leland v. Oregon
, 343 U.S. 790 (1952).

14
.
Herrera v. Collins
, 506 U.S. 390 (1993).

15
.
Herrera
, 506 U.S. at 417.