Bob McCarty Writes

Things are getting bad when I find myself largely in agreement with Mike German, a former FBI special agent-turned ACLU policy lawyer.  Well, things are getting bad, and German’s comments about top threats to our civil liberties in a post-9/11 world seem to be on target.  Therefore, I share them as contained in the video [...]

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More than 200 people, many of whom were veterans, descended upon downtown St. Charles, Mo., at noon Thursday to counter a 30-minute protest by three sign-carrying members of the controversial Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church, a group most well-known for protesting at military funerals. The Westboro protest came less than three weeks after the St. [...]

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Five days ago, a Missouri law enforcement agency’s confidential report about the so-called “Modern Militia Movement” inspired me to publish a post, Yikes, I Might Be Part of the Militia Movement! (Third Update).  Soon after, that post caught the eye of Joshua Rhett Miller, a news editor at FoxNews.com.  He interviewed me over the phone [...]

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The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear the case regarding the Mojave Desert Cross, a memorial to World War I veterans that has been declared unconstitutional by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals after standing for 75 years.  That is good news, according to a news release from Liberty Legal Institute, and a [...]

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In a May 2007 post, I highlighted a Washington Post article in which writer Peter Finn pointed out that voluntarily or involuntarily placement of individuals in isolation or quarantine might not be far away.  Today, according to report in the Global Post, the South African government is already there, battling with multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis: Fearful [...]

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I spotted this message-laden Ford F-350 pickup this morning on the way home from my church in suburban St. Louis.  I’m in complete agreement with the politics behind each of the messages shown — except, that is, for the two McCain stickers: Vote Democrat, It’s Easier Than Working — Check! Anti-ACLU Sign — Check! Footprint [...]

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Forty-five days after publishing news about Odell Stukes Jr. being suspended for refusing to remove a Barack Obama cap while on the job, the Obama Cap Flap continues. According to a new Suburban Journals report, the St. Louis-area bus driver involved in the case has been unable to get the American Civil Liberties Union or [...]

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