New system promises to bypass TOR, a trap for privacy-minded Web users
Chattanooga-area programmer John Kozlowski’s secure email service is named after the Russian matryoshka nesting dolls. [Startmail.org promises snoop-free messaging — “StartMail lets you take back your right to communicate privately,” its website says. Reagan.com makes a similar offer: “Unlike some of the largest email service providers like Google, Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail, @Reagan.com will not […]
Resisting arrest a constitutional right lost in rise of Progressivism
Las Vegas cop beat a restaurant patron because he doesn’t clear out quickly enough. (Photo copblock.org) See Part I of Mr. Roots’ essay here. The rise of policing despite constitution; or how cops became legally superior By Roger Roots Nothing illustrates the modern disparity between the rights and powers of police and citizen as much […]
The rise of policing despite constitution; or how cops became legally superior, apart
Protesters in dowtown Chattanooga join thousands around the country in late 2014 protesting police slayings of unarmed people. (Photo Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson on Facebook) Police work is often lionized by jurists and scholars who claim to employ “textualist” and “originalist” methods of constitutional interpretation. Yet professional police were unknown to the United States in 1789, […]
Shall we toss corporate charter? Yes, church governors say in 5-0 vote
State government graciously gives a small Presbyterian church a new and eternal life, that of a state corporation. It happened May 7, 1954. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. — Psalm 118:8, 9 […]
How private money, inflation entail chicanery, fraud, coming wreck
Justice Stephen J. Field, a dissenter of paper money disaster By David Tulis The disaster of national economy that awaits us here in the hinterlands has its makings in ideas that are ultimately religious in nature. More immediately the wreckage caused by ballooning and unpayable debt is based on a ideas that take the form […]
How do you want ‘to be policed’? Abusive cops in age of corporate state
Police enjoy virtual legal immunity in taking human life. (Photo Page A7 Chattanooga Times Free Press Dec. 6, 2014) By David Tulis Once I made an effort to quit the newsroom and learn other parts of the newspaper business in which I’d worked two decades. In an interview with the head of the Times Free […]
If licensing scheme runs on consent, ‘illegals’ may be freer than citizens
Immigrants and free citizens who use the roads without driver’s licenses are charged with a crime under Title 55 of the Tennessee Code Annotated. [I have been giving time to digesting Tennessee Code Annotated Title 55, covering “motor and other vehicles.” It seems to pose no threat to Hispanics and immigrants in Tennessee who use […]
Despite SROs, walled compounds bring violent intruders on themselves
Monteagle, Tenn., officers and deputies from Grundy and Marion counties make a sweep of an elementary school Nov. 17, 2014. They are holding toy guns. (Photo WRCBTV.com) Please read my essay at The Chattanoogan Tweet Pin It
The orphaned right: How states squelched Americans’ right to travel
States by myriad efforts to regulate the use of cars like these on Brainerd Road in Chattanooga slowly whittled away the right to travel by car, converting its use to a privilege. Attorney Roger Isaac Roots is a legal scholar, criminologist and civil liberties activities who lives in Livingston, Mont. He has written many scholarly […]
Judges give cheerful defense of democratic processes, states’ rights, federalism
Lesbians march in Boston in 2008, having converted laws and state government to their perspective. (Photo massresistance.org) By David Tulis The authority of states and their peoples to define marriage is being cheerfully upheld by an appellate opinion in Cincinnati that make clear marriage laws such as Tennessee’s are rational, imposed not with bigotry but […]