Perfecting Tyranny: Foreign Intervention as Experimentation in State Control

Perfecting Tyranny: Foreign Intervention as Experimentation in State Control
By Christopher J. Coyne
Abigail R. Hall
This article appeared in the Fall 2014 issue of The Independent Review

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Abstract
Coercive government actions that target another country often act like a boomerang, turning around and knocking down freedoms and liberties in the “throwing” nation. Two developments in the United States illustrate the boomerang effect: the rise of government surveillance and the growing militarization of the police. http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=1012

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