To learn more about how your civil liberties are being curtailed by the federal government, check out some of these resources below:
An Overview
The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul, ch. 5 (audiobook)
Freedom Under Siege by Ron Paul
How Would a Patriot Act? by Glenn Greenwald
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terror by Geoffrey R. Stone
"The Bill of Rights: Searches and Seizures" by Jacob Hornberger
"The Bill of Rights: Due Process of Law" by Jacob Hornberger
"The Enemy Combatant Attack on Freedom, Part 1" by Jacob Hornberger
"The Enemy Combatant Attack on Freedom, Part 2" by Jacob Hornberger
"Tyranny and the Military Commissions Act" by Jacob Hornberger
"Bush's Wiretap Crimes and the FISA Farce" by James Bovard
"The Bush Torture Memos" by James Bovard
"Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America" (.pdf) by Radley Balko
Second Amendment Resource Library
The War on Drugs
Drug Crazy: How We Got Into this Mess and How We Can Get Out by Mike Gray
Bad Trip: How the War on Drugs Is Destroying America by Joel Miller
Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed by Judge James Gray
Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure by Dan Baum
Marijuana Myths Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence by Lynn Etta Zimmer and John P. Morgan
Marijuana as Medicine? by Alison Mack and Janet Elizabeth Joy
Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America by Ted Galen Carpenter
"How the Drug War in Afghanistan Undermines America's War on Terror" (.pdf) by Ted Galen Carpenter