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The Tyranny of Good Intentions

✍ Scribed by Roberts, Paul Craig

Book ID: 108643328
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 244 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780307410153

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined social ills. The result: innocent people caught up in a bureaucratic web that destroys lives and livelihoods; businesses shuttered because of victimless infractions; a justice system that values coerced pleas over the search for truth; bullying police agencies empowered to confiscate property without due process.

"A devastating indictment of our current system of justice." -- Milton Friedman

In this provocative book, Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton show how the law, which once shielded us from the government, has now become a powerful weapon in the hands of overzealous prosecutors and bureaucrats. Lost is the foundation upon which our freedom rest--the...

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