Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

by James Bovard

Overview

From Justice Department officials seizing people's homes based on mere rumors to the IRS and its master plan to prohibit the nation's self-employed from working for themselves to the perpetrators of the Waco siege, government officials are tearing the Bill of Rights to pieces. Today's citizen is now more likely than ever to violate some unknown law or regulation and be placed at the mercy of an administrator or politician hungering for publicity. Unfortunately, the only way many government agencies can measure their "public service" is by the number of citizens they harass, hinder, restrain, or jail.

James Bovard's Lost Rights provides a highly entertaining analysis of the bloated excess of government and the plight of contemporary Americans beaten into submission by a horrible parody of the Founding Fathers' dream.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312123338
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/15/1995
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

James Bovard is the author of Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, Shakedown, and The Fair Trade Fraud.

Table of Contents

	Preface to the Paperback Edition	v
1	The New Leviathan	1
2	Seizure Fever: The War on Property Rights	9
3	The Proliferation of Petty Dictatorships	49
4	Politics vs. Contracts	85
5	Subsidies and Subjugation	123
6	The Opportunity Police	165
7	Guns, Drugs, Searches, and Snares	199
8	Taxing and Tyrannizing	259
9	Spiking Speech, Bankrupting Newspapers, and Jamming Broadcasts	293
10	Conclusion	331
	Acknowledgments	336
	Notes	337
	Index	393