{"id":18832,"date":"2023-12-10T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T16:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=18832"},"modified":"2023-12-10T11:47:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T16:47:13","slug":"hans-bader-reading-last-rights-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/10\/hans-bader-reading-last-rights-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans Bader: &#8220;Reading &#8216;Last Rights&#8217; will expand your brain without pain&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Hearty thanks to Hans Bader, a Washington lawyer who has done superb work defending freedom and constitutional rights for decades!<\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">Liberty Unyielding, December 10, 2023<\/div>\n<div>\n<header class=\"entry-header wpdev-single-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/12\/10\/reading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/\">Reading \u201cLast Rights: The Death of American Liberty\u201d will enrich your brain<\/a><\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"byline\"> By <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/author\/hanbcompent\/\">Hans Bader<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content wpdev-single author-20\">\n<div class=\"wpdev-article-img\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Statue-of-Liberty-dollar-storm-cloud-PD-725x375.jpg\" alt=\"Reading \u201cLast Rights: The Death of American Liberty\u201d will expand your brain without pain\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpdev-image-caption\">Pixabay; LU Staff<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpdev-top-share\">\n<div id=\"essb_displayed_shortcode_4692742\" class=\"essb_links essb_displayed_shortcode essb_share essb_template_metro-retina essb_4692742 print-no\" data-essb-postid=\"234440\" data-essb-position=\"shortcode\" data-essb-button-style=\"button\" data-essb-template=\"metro-retina\" data-essb-counter-pos=\"hidden\" data-essb-url=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/12\/10\/reading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/\" data-essb-fullurl=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/12\/10\/reading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/\" data-essb-instance=\"4692742\">\n<ul class=\"essb_links_list\">\n<li class=\"essb_item essb_link_facebook nolightbox\"><a class=\"nolightbox fbc-has-badge fbc-UID_1\" title=\"Share on Share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/feed?app_id=825695570796997&amp;display=popup&amp;name=Reading+%5C%26%23039%3BLast+Rights%3A+The+Death+of+American+Liberty%5C%26%23039%3B+will+expand+your+brain+without+pain&amp;link=https%3A%2F%2Flibertyunyielding.com%2F2023%2F12%2F10%2Freading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain%2F&amp;picture=https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Statue-of-Liberty-dollar-storm-cloud-PD.jpg&amp;description=If+you+want+to+learn+about+the+many+ways+the+federal+government+violates+your+rights%2C+wastes+your+money%2C+and+abuses+its+powers%2C+you+should+read+James+Bovard%5C%26%23039%3Bs+Last+Rights%3A+The+Death+of+American+Liberty.+It+is+only+306+pages+long+%28not+counting+endnotes%29%2C+b...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span class=\"essb_network_name\">Share<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"essb_item essb_link_twitter nolightbox\"><a class=\"nolightbox\" title=\"Share on Tweet\" href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/12\/10\/reading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span class=\"essb_network_name\">Tweet<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you want to learn about the many ways the federal government violates your rights, wastes your money, and abuses its powers, you should read James Bovard\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty\/dp\/B0CP9VCNDH\"><em>Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty<\/em><\/a>. It is only 306 pages long (not counting endnotes), but it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty\/dp\/B0CP9VCNDH\">contains more<\/a> information than some encyclopedias. It is well-written and an easy read. When you plug passages from the book into WordPress, it generally ranks their readability as \u201cgood,\u201d unlike most of my blog posts and newspaper columns, which are classified either as \u201cOK\u201d or \u201cneeds improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty\/dp\/B0CP9VCNDH\">called<\/a> Bovard \u201cthe roving inspector general of the modern state,\u201d while Washington Post columnist George Will called him a \u201cone-man truth squad.\u201d Over the years, he has written 11 books and countless op-eds. His writings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty\/dp\/B0CP9VCNDH\">have<\/a> been publicly denounced by the FBI Director, the Postmaster General, three cabinet secretaries, and the chiefs of the TSA, DEA, and FEMA.<\/p>\n<p>Bovard describes the government\u2019s failure to detect even the most obvious fraud in pandemic relief programs. For example, \u201cthe feds distributed $813 billion in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans.\u201d \u201cThe feds gave PPP loans to 342 people who said their name was \u2018N\/A.&#8217;\u201d \u201cIn Florida, a PPP loan was used to bankroll a murder-for-hire plot that left a TSA agent dead.\u201d \u201c15 Illinois jailbirds used PPP loans to pay their bail.\u201d Almost \u201c$600 billion may have been lost to fraud\u201d in such federal pandemic relief programs.<a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/12\/10\/reading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bovard describes how vague federal laws are used to impose ever-expanding burdens on businesses and the public. For example,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yaroslav Suris, a deaf man, sued Pornhub and similar websites for violating the ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act]. Suris complained that, because of lack of closed captioning, he was unable to comprehend the action in <em>Hot Step Aunt Babysits Disobedient Nephew. <\/em>Pornhub offered captions for more than a thousand videos, but apparently not enough to satisfy the plaintiff\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration invoked the ADA to make wearing face masks compulsory for all public school and preschool attendees\u2026Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona claimed that governors and state legislatures that failed to require students to wear masks violated federal law. In August 2021, the Department of Education launched civil rights investigations, claiming that five states that prohibited mask mandates \u201cdiscriminate against students with disabilities who are at heightened risk for severe illness from COVID-19 by preventing them from safely accessing in-person education.\u201d \u2026In July 2022, a federal appeals court overturned [a] lower court decision [against Texas\u2019s mask ban] \u2026 since most of the schools with mask mandates had similar or higher COVID transmission rates than schools with no mandate\u2026.A Brown University analysis found no correlation between mask mandates and lower COVID case rates.<a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/12\/10\/reading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bovard focuses most on the federal government, but he also describes the pathologies that afflict schools, law enforcement, and local governments. He describes how progressive government officials want to disarm law-abiding citizens, even as they fail to protect them from violence. In the riots that erupted in many cities after the death of George Floyd, \u201cBig-city mayors made a partisan or ideologically motivated decision to refuse to deploy the police to quash rioting \u2026 to show solidarity with left-wing protestors,\u201d noted law professor David Bernstein. Looting and killing followed, notes Bovard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey ordered police to stand down and abandon a precinct headquarters, the building was burnt down, and looting and burning engulfed much of the city, leaving several people dead, dozens stabbed or shot, and scores of police officers injured. Fifteen hundred properties suffered up to $500 million in damage. Mayor Frey shrugged off the damage as \u201cjust brick and mortar.\u201d The city\u2019s homicide rate doubled after the riots.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio responded to violent protests by announcing that he wanted police to use \u201ca light touch because people are undeniably angry for a reason.\u201d\u00a0 The chief of a New York Police Department union complained: \u201cWe are being told to stand down. We have a city that\u2019s being destroyed.\u201d For hours, police failed to respond to desperate calls after looting broke out, and they stood aside when the flagship Macy\u2019s store on 34th Street was plundered. Almost 500 stores were looted or burned.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkin forced police to abandon a precinct headquarters. Demonstrators quickly swarmed that area and proclaimed an autonomous zone. Durkan justified their action by referred to it as a \u201cblock party\u201d heralding a \u201csummer of love.\u201d The following month, Durkin admitted that the autonomous zone helped spur a 525% increase in crome in Seattle. The city\u2019s murder rate doubled in 2020. By 2021, police were so overwhelmed by a crime surge that they ceased investigating sexual assaults involving adults\u2026<\/p>\n<p>After violence erupted in Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot hectored defenseless residents: \u201cDo not pick up arms and try to be the police. If there\u2019s a problem, call 911. We will respond. But \u2026 do not take matters into your own hands.\u201d But the 911 system completely collapsed during widespread looting and shooting. Chicago\u2019s poorest neighborhoods were ravaged by mobs that pillaged local store owners , who were mostly minorities. In the first weekend of June 2020, 85 people were shot and 24 murdered in the city\u2026Chicago police failed to respond to more than 400,000 high-priority emergency service calls in 2021, including 14,955 assaults in progress, 1,352 reports of a person shot, and almost a thousand cases of a person stabbed.<a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/12\/10\/reading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bovard describes the government\u2019s absurd double standards during the coronavirus pandemic. During the lockdowns, government officials discriminated against religion and productive activity, and in favor of risky lifestyles. For example, small businesses were shut down to prevent potential human contact, yet lockdown advocate Anthony Fauci \u201cdeclared that people who hook up with strangers via Tinder were entitled to make their \u2018choice regarding a risk,&#8217;\u201d and New York \u201ccity officials sanctioned \u2018glory holes\u2019 for sex with strangers\u201d even as people were arrested for not wearing face masks. Pennsylvania\u2019s governor \u201cdecreed that anyone visiting other people\u2019s homes must wear a face mask,\u201d even as Pennsylvania\u2019s health department was producing a guide for people who \u201cattend a large gathering where you might\u201d have an orgy.<a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/12\/10\/reading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are just a few tiny examples from <em>Last Rights<\/em>, selected more or less at random. There is much, much more in the book, which is available at Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty\/dp\/B0CP9VCNDH\">at this link<\/a>: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty\/dp\/B0CP9VCNDH<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/12\/05\/opinion\/government-tyranny-comes-to-main-street-with-the-feds-more-powerful-than-ever\/\">describes<\/a> some of the other kinds of government follies and abuses of power covered in the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/12\/10\/reading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/12\/10\/reading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> <em>See<\/em> <em>Last Rights<\/em>, pg. 83.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/12\/10\/reading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[2]<\/a> <em>See<\/em> <em>Last Rights<\/em>, pp. 144-46.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/12\/10\/reading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[3]<\/a> <em>See Last Rights<\/em><em>, <\/em>pp. 43-44.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2023\/12\/10\/reading-last-rights-the-death-of-american-liberty-will-expand-your-brain-without-pain\/#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[4]<\/a> <em>See Last Rights, <\/em>pg. 88.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearty thanks to Hans Bader, a Washington lawyer who has done superb work defending freedom and constitutional rights for decades! 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