Liberty Coalition

I spoke at the Contingency Planning & Management 2008 EAST conference in November in Florida on a panel entitled "Buzzworthy 2009" The Buzzworthy panel was a review of emerging trends and technologies including emergency management, intelligence, cyber security, biometrics and corporate security.  I spoke on behalf of the Liberty Coalition on cyber-security and the need to identify and protect personally identifiable information in the context of data breaches and identit

My Liberty Coalition and the Stop Real ID Coalition along with the other members of the Constitutional Alliance are pleased to announce that we are spearheading a discussion and media event in Washington, DC about the Real ID Act 2005 and other issues related to the rights of American citizens.

Organizations from both the right and the left, as well as elected representatives from several states are joining together to address the threat of an International ID system.

My Liberty Coalition is hosting a special discussion with Bruce Fein, author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy ( St. Martin's Press, 2008). on Wednesday the 15th, 2008  in Washington DC.

I attended a two day transpartisan retreat in Baltimore MD in September 2008 on transparency in government related issues. It was a continuation of the retreat that I attended last year in NY also hosted by OMB Watch. It was a great opportunity to think through with some very good people from across the political spectrum on what we would expect from the next administration after Bush. Some of the other groups that attended included the National Taxpayers Union, U.S.

In late October 2007, I joined Grover Norquist from Americans for Tax Reform, Kary Moss of the ACLU-Michigan, Noel Saleh and Linda Mansour on a panel discussion on policy and politcs. I gave a short speech and then participated in the panel discussion.