civil liberties

There Was No Exit Plan from “Slow the Spread”

By Robert Blumen | BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE | February 13, 2022 Last year, cartoons began to appear depicting an endless cycle of variants and government responses. They call to mind the definition of insanity (misattributed to Einstein) as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Or perhaps the less well known line from […]

Blue cities and states continue their tyranny

By Toby Rogers | February 14, 2022 The Supreme Court is doing exactly what they said that they were going to do — blocking OSHA from imposing vaccine mandates on private companies but allowing states and cities to impose whatever vaccine tyranny they wish. Sotomayor Rejects New York School Workers on Vaccine Requirement U.S. Supreme Court Justice […]

Brian Peckford, Signatory of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, on Trudeau and the COVID-19 Mandates

February 11, 2022 Former Premier of Newfoundland expresses pure passion for his country. The Charter’s only living signatory sues Canada over travel mandates Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms | January 26, 2022 OTTAWA – The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms today filed a lawsuit in Federal Court seeking to strike down the federal government’s mandatory Covid-19 vaccine requirements for air travellers. […]

A Brave New World Without Rights: Ending Mandates Does Not Strip Government of the Ability to Do This Again

By Julius Ruechel | February 9, 2022 The ongoing Truckers for Freedom convoy in Ottawa has triggered a shockwave that is reaching all around the world. Even as our authoritarian federal regime continues to double down on measures and threatens to use brute force tactics against peaceful protesters, many provinces are nervously beginning to lay out a […]

They Are Still Defending Lockdowns

By Jeffrey A. Tucker | Brownstone Institute | February 13, 2022 Fifteen years ago, writers schooled in computer science began to imagine various totalitarian schemes for pandemic control. Experienced public health officials in 2006 warned that this would lead to disaster. Donald Henderson, for example, went through Still, a decade and a half later, governments […]

Clinton campaign paid tech firm to link Trump to Russia – court filing

A legal motion makes bombshell allegations about IT firm’s clandestine spying activities on Trump White House RT | February 13, 2022 Lawyers working for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign paid an IT firm to “infiltrate” servers at Trump Tower and the White House in order to establish a “narrative” that would link Donald Trump to […]

University’s top donor withdraws support over ‘ridiculous’ Covid rules

RT | February 11, 2022 The UK’s Durham University has lost its biggest individual donor, multimillionaire Mark Hillery, who pulled his financial support over Covid-19 rules he slammed as “ridiculous.” A former hedge fund manager and university alumnus, Hillery donated almost £7m to the university’s Collingwood College between 2015 and 2021. He has funded a […]

Canadian Truckers and Supporters Staying the Course

By Stephen Lendman | February 13, 2022 Thousands of Canadian truckers and supporters continue protesting against draconian Trudeau regime health and freedom-destroying mandates. Ongoing since January 29 in Ottawa, they continued overnight Saturday for the 6th day along the Ambassador Bridge linking Windsor, Ontario to Detroit — defying a court order to disperse and state […]

RIP Freedom of Speech

In lockstep in multiple countries The Naked Emperor’s Newsletter | February 12, 2022 As with so many things that are happening at the moment, the attack on free speech is happening in multiple countries at the same time. Firstly in the UK. A draft Online Safety Bill was first presented to Parliament in May 2021 but has […]