90 Miles From Tyranny

Friday, April 13, 2018

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #225

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

California Bill Aims to Stop Misinformation on Social Media

Orwell's "1984" vs. Huxley's "Brave New World"

Orwell's 1984 Cliffnotes (Sparknotes)

The further a society drifts from Truth...

Original Transcript Of 1984 By George Orwell

Big Brother and The Chant of the ever circling skeletal family

Orwell On Modern Day "Journalism"..

Aldous Huxley On The Current State Of Facts...

When Someone Sends A Funny Meme On Messenger...

There is a surprising amount of wisdom to be gleaned from traditional children's literature...

CBO Report: Trumponomics To Boost Economic Growth Through 2028

The Congressional Budget Office is expecting higher deficits and quicker economic growth in the coming decade. However, a key fiscal measure suggests an improved budget performance by 2028.

One America’s Kristian Rouz explains.

ACLU Celebrates Raid on Trump’s Lawyer: ‘The Rule of Law is Alive’

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has published an article celebrating the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s personal lawyer as a victory for the rule of law — not a violation of attorney-client privilege and the president’s constitutional rights.

Earlier this week, the FBI raided attorney Michael Cohen’s office, apartment, and hotel room, seizing materials that included communications from Trump to his lawyer. The government typically cannot have access to those communications. In cases where it is necessary to study such communications, the FBI establishes a supposedly independent “taint team” that sifts through the material and, theoretically, only passes on evidence to prosecutors that does not violate attorney-client privilege.

However, critics allege that there is great potential for abuse, especially in a politically-charged case like this. They point out that such raids on attorneys are very rare, and argue that the president’s Fourth Amendment right to privacy, Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, and Sixth Amendment right to counsel have been compromised.

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, one of the country’s foremost defense lawyers and a civil libertarian who supported Hillary Clinton for president, condemned the raid.

“If this were Hillary Clinton being investigated and they went into her lawyer’s office, the ACLU would be on every television station in America jumping up and down,” he told Fox News this week.

However, the ACLU not only condones the raid on Trump’s; it is applauding it.

ACLU legal director David Cole wrote on the organization’s website:

The ACLU is the nation’s premier defender of privacy, and we’ve long maintained that the right of every American to speak freely to his or her attorney is essential to the legal system. These rights are protected by the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, and we are second to none in defending them — often for people with whom we fundamentally disagree.

But we also believe in the rule of law as an essential foundation for civil liberties and civil rights. And perhaps the first principle of the rule of law is that...