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Category: Newsletter
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The Declaration of Independence does not open with a theory. It opens with a statement of purpose. Government exists to protect the rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” That is the contract. When government fails at that job, or actively works against it, the contract has already been broken by the other…
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Color of law describes the condition under which a person uses authority granted by a government position to do something they are not legally permitted to do. The “color” in the phrase means the appearance of legitimacy, not the substance of it. An official acting under color of law looks like they are operating within…
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Note from the editor, Malcolm Lee Kitchen III ; An old military and life long friend and research partner of mine sent me the following article that he had been putting together the last few weeks. I’m now 43 years old and still have ice water still running through my veins; but as you get…
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George Washington understood how republics die. His Farewell Address, delivered September 19, 1796, was not ceremonial rhetoric offered by a retiring statesman. It was a precise, urgent warning about the internal forces that destroy free governments. While Americans remain consumed by the spectacle of modern political combat, they continue to ignore the founder’s most critical…
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By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | MK3 Law Group(c) 2026 – All rights reserved. The Constitutional Foundation of the Right to Travel The right to travel freely is not a privilege granted by government. It is a fundamental right that predates the Constitution itself, recognized across centuries of American jurisprudence and embedded in the legal…
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By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | MK3 Law Group(c) 2026 – All rights reserved. Executive Summary Smart dust began as a late-1990s research vision: ultra-small, networked sensing nodes combining sensing, computation, communication, and power into something approaching a cubic millimeter or smaller. Since then, the label has spread across several related but importantly different technology…
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The Ubiquity of the Digital Fingerprint By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | MK3 Law Group(c) 2026 – All rights reserved. The 2021 Government Accountability Office report on federal use of non-federal facial recognition technology documents the operational mechanics of a surveillance apparatus that has grown well beyond public awareness. The report is not speculative. It…
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Palantir does not sell software in the conventional sense. It sells an operating environment, a dynamic, interactive platform through which intelligence analysts can visualize relationships that no single database could previously surface. The company’s platforms ingest massive, heterogeneous datasets simultaneously: DMV records, utility billing histories, financial transactions, location telemetry, arrest logs, social media activity, and…
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By Malcolm Lee Kitchen III | MK3 Law Group(c) 2026 – All rights reserved. The System, Not the Slogan The System, Not the Slogan A Constitutional Republic is best understood as a system, not a symbol. It is a mutually reinforcing set of legal rules, institutions, technologies, and civic norms designed to constrain arbitrary power…