rights Archives

The COVID Passport: Fascism at Hand

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T12:06:31-05:00May 4th, 2021|

Is the COVID passport the scariest idea of them all? Think about this. It's the first "real" mandated program, run by the government, "allowing" and "denying" behavior based on personal attributes private to... you. You've noticed how the tech companies collect data subversively and just happen to show you that new ad for a (fill in the blank) just minutes after you looked at something similar somewhere on the internet. Now apply that concept to your not-very-trustworthy government and think about how the passport can be used to collect all manner of information about your beliefs, actions, purchases and who knows what else. Scary stuff...

The Case for Black Patriotism

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T12:06:36-05:00April 19th, 2021|

There is a fashionable standoffishness characteristic of much elite thinking about blacks’ relationship to America—as exemplified, for instance, by the New York Times’s 1619 Project. Does this posture serve the interests, rightly understood, of black Americans? I think that it does not.

Wisdom from a regular gal

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T12:08:59-05:00August 17th, 2020|

Ms. Elizabeth Ward Nottrodt likes to write letters to the editor, and for that we are grateful. We like to circle back to first principles at ACRU, and Ms. Nottrodt’s latest Washington Times letter on foundational property rights vs. anti-rule of law destructive Marxism is right on the money. Property rights rule no. 1? “Don’t touch other peoples’ stuff.”

When liberty and security clash over a virus

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T12:10:47-05:00April 3rd, 2020|

The Coronavirus and its associated restrictions have been a great challenge to our civil liberties. We must remain vigilant against the virus, but we also must safeguard our freedoms against some governors and local officials who find the virus a great opportunity to commit tyranny. This piece by two medical experts helps draw the line between reclaiming our liberty and securing our safety.

Rights Versus Wishes

By ACRU Staff|2016-04-27T11:38:56-04:00April 27th, 2016|

As human beings, we all have certain natural rights. Of the rights we possess, we have a right to delegate them to government.