17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Today's WSJ has an article by a Cato type about an Indiana businessman who told state labor investigators to get stuffed. In the course of this article, the author quoted a 1948 opion (in dissent?) by Justice Jackson: The government could simplify criminal law enforcement by requiring every citizen "to keep a diary that would show where he was at all times, with whom he was, and what he was up to." Now we know where they got the idea for various "escrow" and DTI schemes. DCF Who also fondly remembers Justice Jackson's strong dissent in Korematsu vs. US against those great civil libertarians Black and Douglas who voted to uphold that great liberal FDR's imprisonment of persons of Japanese ancestry.