Jim Babkas Post-statist Review

Episode #3, How Downsize DC is restoring your property rights vis-a-vis the Fourth Amendment. Also, analysis of why John Bolton would be a dangerous appointment to the Trump administration. Finally, Howard asks whether or not libertarians are isolationists, and Jim comes back with a surprising perspective that demonstrates how libertarians can actually be interventionists! SHOW NOTES: 1:45 – The Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. 2:22 – The “reasonable expectation of privacy” is a subjective standard. How this interpretation of the Fourth Amendment has been failing us in the 21st Century. 4:25 – Is there an objective method of interpreting the Fourth Amendment that will serve us better? 6:10 – In wh