Projects

Current:

Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances
A founding member of a network of individuals and organizations – conservatives and progressives – that believes the threat of terrorism cannot be allowed to dissolve or erode the carefully constructed structural foundations for preserving our liberty, enshrined forever in the Constitution.

The Human Rights Financial Defense Committee
Presently establishing a network of legal and financial advisors in the offshore community that will set up accounts utilizing bank secrecy to enable “material support” for democratic movements and human rights organizations worldwide. Bank secrecy provides a practical means for defending human rights, including economic rights, and civil liberties. We will specifically address situations in which financial privacy is threatened as well as other systematic threats to individual property rights more generally. Our Offshore defense advisory board will play a key role in this area by providing logistical direction for the execution of these projects.

FM Watch
A coalition of groups that seeks to end the special favors for Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs). Our group focuses on the privacy policy requirements from which they are currently exempt.

Coalition for Constitutional Liberties
A coalition of organizations throughout the country networked together for the preservation of our liberties against the attacks by government agencies and institutions. The coalition has been designed to help keep grassroots organizations aware of legislation and regulatory action concerning privacy and technology issues, and to provide materials on those topics for distribution to member organizations that can be forwarded to their constituents and members.

Medical Privacy Coalition
A broad coalition of privacy, medical and other groups works to protect medical privacy. Since simple billing information can transmit personal information in great detail, our membership adds an important perspective.

Liberty Coalition
Our sister lobbying organization, the Liberty Coalition, works to help organize, support, and coordinate transpartisan public policy activities related to civil liberties and basic human rights. We work in conjunction with groups of partner organizations that are interested in preserving the Bill of Rights, personal autonomy and individual privacy.

In Defense of Freedom
A broad-based coalition that came together after September 11th, 2001, warning that there may be unintended negative consequences for privacy and civil liberties if precautions are not taken. Congress should be mindful of the known failure of current information sharing schemes to secure this nation against terrorist attacks, which have been deployed at the cost of civil rights and civil liberties.

Forthcoming:

FinCEN Watch
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is a bureau under the U.S. Treasury that is the inter-agency nexus of our anti-money laundering policies. Currently no privacy group regularly monitors this organization.

FATF Watch
The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is a sister organization of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and fancies itself the anti-money laundering policy-making body for developed countries. Currently no privacy group regularly monitors this organization.

"Greenspan: Worth a Continental?"
A feature documentary exploring the nature of monetary policy and money itself, using Alan Greenspan as the starting point for an examination of what money is, the impact the state has on money, and the real-life consequences of that impact.

"The Making of the USA PATRIOT Act."
A feature documentary chronicling the construction of the USA PATRIOT Act from its pre-9/11 roots to its hurried passage.

Green Scissors campaign
A coalition of environmental, good government, anti-tax and limited government groups to identify and eliminate environmentally harmful government spending.

Anti-Corporate Welfare campaign
A coalition of consumer, privacy, good government, anti-tax and limited government groups to identify and eliminate governmental corporate welfare.

"The Health of the State."
A feature documentary exploring the historical relationship between war and the state. The documentary will ask the question: Was Randolphe Bourne correct in his assessment that “war is the health of the state”?