It’s not every day you find a government document calling for @CatoInstitute employees to be charged with treason...
It seems we’ve touched a nerve.
A #CatoTrade 🧵...
It seems we’ve touched a nerve.
A #CatoTrade 🧵...
For months, Cato’s @PGEddington & @ColinGrabow have been using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to gain access to internal emails from the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD)
It's been a grueling process and responses from MARAD have often been late, missing, or incomplete
It's been a grueling process and responses from MARAD have often been late, missing, or incomplete
After months of appeals and threats of legal action on our part, MARAD finally sent us the required materials last month.
After reading through what they sent, we understand why the agency was so reluctant to comply with the law...
After reading through what they sent, we understand why the agency was so reluctant to comply with the law...
Buried amongst documents related to a meeting of the Marine Transportation System National Advisory Committee’s International Shipping Subcommittee was a shocking recommendation:
“Charge all past and present members of the Cato and Mercatus Institutes [sic] with treason.”
“Charge all past and present members of the Cato and Mercatus Institutes [sic] with treason.”
In other words, someone who sits among government officials suggested charging American citizens with treason—a federal crime punishable by death—due to their political speech.
This is manifestly antithetical to the values of a free society.
This is manifestly antithetical to the values of a free society.
Devotion to the Jones Act is apparently so strong that equating scholarly criticism of the law with treason didn’t even elicit the batting of a bureaucratic eyelash.
The @CatoInstitute is dedicated to exposing the truth about the Jones Act.
And, it seems we're making an impact.
The threat of treason charges, while deeply disturbing, only emboldens our repeal efforts.
#EndTheJonesAct
cato.org/project-jones-…
And, it seems we're making an impact.
The threat of treason charges, while deeply disturbing, only emboldens our repeal efforts.
#EndTheJonesAct
cato.org/project-jones-…
Learn more about the government threat to charge @CatoInstitute & @Mercatus employees with treason because of our work to #EndTheJonesAct... cato.org/blog/charge-al… #CatoTrade
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