Surveillance
How AI and the Deep State Are Digitizing Tyranny
The Deep State is not going away. It’s just being replaced. Replaced not by a charismatic autocrat or even a shadowy bureaucracy, but by artificial intelligence (AI) – unfeeling, unaccountable, and immortal. As we stand on the brink of a new technological order,...
Government Attacks on Private Property
A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought to mind the dark and dangerous history of law enforcement. The practice of British agents rummaging through the private possessions on the...
Holes in the Constitution
Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the “wall” between federal law enforcement and federal spies. The wall was erected in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which...
To the Governor: Arizona Bill to Ban Credit Card Codes that Track Gun Purchases
PHOENIX, Ariz. (May 8, 2025) – The Arizona House gave final approval to a bill that would prohibit financial institutions operating in the state from using a credit card merchant code that enables the tracking of firearm and ammunition purchases, sending it to...