Unbridled Authority

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

A reader from India left a comment here stating, among other things,

Am very impressed with citizens['] rights in your country….I should say cops in our country take us for a ride and just twist things as per their whims [a]n[d] fancies as we have no clue of our rights.

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Goose-stepping Our Way to the Fourth Reich

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Over on my other blog — I maintain FresnoCriminalDefense.com as my website and blog relating to more regional issues specific to my Fresno criminal defense office — I had the chance to respond to one of my readers who complained, among other things, that I was not being fair to law enforcement officers because I made allusions to the similarities between them and the enforcers of totalitarianism in Nazi Germany.

The timing could not have been more perfect.

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The More Things Change: Why the U.S. Constitution Should Not Survive the Internet

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Adrianos Facchetti, a California “Internet Defamation Attorney,” writing the California Defamation Law Blog asks, among other things, if governments should regulate the Internet to control defamatory speech — however that might be accomplished.

I could only think of one response….

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