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Privacy please

Privacy vs. Security

Since well before we eagerly leaped into the world of high technology, we gave very little thought to the possibility that someday we would find ourselves at a perilous fork in the road as a society, culture, and country.

They and They Alone

They and They Alone

What is your response when you hear about law enforcement officials breaking the law to get someone they think is bad? The police aren’t the only ones who occasionally lose focus and decide to “get the bad guy” … no matter what it takes.

Concealed Carry

Carrying a Concealed Firearm is Not Reasonable Suspicion of a Crime

In 2014 a patron at a Gas-Station Convenience store in Pennsylvania was observed on CCTV showing a firearm to another patron before holstering it under his shirt. A phone call from a store employee and a few police officers later, the armed citizen was arrested on a Drug possession and a DUI charge (but no …

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To be Secure in their Persons, Houses, Papers, and Effects

Paul Manafort may be a sleazy lobbyist, but we don’t raid and arrest the armies of lobbyists in DC just for being sleazy. Lawyer Michael Cohen may have flirted with campaign finance violations in his attempts to dissuade ‘Stormy’ Daniels from going public about a 12 year old encounter with Trump, but we don’t send …

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