01/18/19 Overnight Links

Reason: Oklahoma cops jail four men for transporting legal hemp: “Jamie Baumgartner of Colorado, whose Panacea Life Sciences was the intended recipient of the hemp, tells Fox31 that his company ordered the plant from Kentucky, that a manifest on the truck identified the cargo as hemp, and that Panacea Life Sciences’ contractors received “pre-clearance from the State of Oklahoma” to transport hemp through the state on its way from Kentucky to Colorado. This should have been enough to ward off police harassment.”

Techdirt: Judge recommends vacating sentence of one of the FBI’s handcrafted “terrorists”

JIM BOVARD: Attorney General nominee Wiliam Barr’s connection to Ruby Ridge, defending FBI snipers

FEE: Canada’s new drunk driving law will make you thankful for the 4th Amendment

Consortium News: Bases, bases, everywhere…except in the Pentagon’s report

TAC: NATO is a danger, not a guarantor of peace

PAT BUCHANAN: At age 70, time to rethink NATO

Common Dreams: Bring the troops home, but also stop the bombing

The Hill: Amazon shareholders push to halt facial recognition contracts with police

High Times: Terminally-ill patients in Australian hospital to be treated with psilocybin

Author: S. Smith