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Author Ann Bauer<\/a><\/strong> reviewed Last Rights<\/strong> on Twitter today.\u00a0\u00a0 Her verdict: “‘Last Rights’ manages to be dire, terrifying and funny in equal parts. It makes a great Christmas gift for your awakened reader.” Here is Ann’s tweet thread:<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Americans today have the ‘freedom’ to be fleeced, groped, wiretapped, injected, censored, ticketed, disarmed, beaten, vilified, detained, and maybe shot by government agents. Politicians are hell-bent on protecting citizens against everything but Uncle Sam.” <\/i><\/div>\n
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“Today’s politicians never lack a pretext for plundering private citizens. Despite being charged with no crime, half a million Americans have been robbed by government agents on the nation’s sidewalks, highways, and airports in recent decades.” <\/i><\/div>\n
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“Federal law enforcement agencies arbitrarily confiscate more property from Americans each year than all the burglars steal nationwide. The IRS pilfered more cash from private bank accounts because of alleged paperwork errors than the total looted by bank robbers.” <\/i><\/div>\n
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“Cops in many cities have been caught planting guns on hapless targets, while corrupt police labs fabricated tens of thousands of bogus drug convictions. Despite perpetual promises of reform, most police who brutalize private citizens still automatically receive legal immunity.” <\/i><\/div>\n
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“Gun owners are America’s fastest-growing criminal class. One state after another is enacting ‘Show us the gun and we’ll find the crime’ laws. Judges and politicians are justifying mass disarmament in the name of ‘freedom from fear’ \u2014 as if no one will be safe until govt controls every trigger.<\/p>\n

At the same time, many federal agencies are stockpiling automatic weapons, Biden calls for banning semiautomatic pistols and rifles owned by 50 millions Americans.” <\/i><\/div>\n

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“Bureaucrats exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to forbid any activities they chose, from going to church to buying garden seeds. Governors in most states effectively banned hundreds of millions of citizens from leaving their homes. Tens of thousands of small businesses were bankrupted by shutdown orders, while federal ‘relief’ spurred a $600 billion worldwide fraud stampede.”<\/p>\n

“Government decrees are blighting more lives than ever before. Vague laws convert bureaucrats into czars who dictate as they please.” <\/i><\/div>\n

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“Schoolchildren are being sacrificed on the altar of social justice. From No Child Left Behind to Common Core, federal dictates have subverted academic standards and squandered billions of hours of kids’ lives. Teacher unions have worked to destroy local control of education, <\/i>prevent teacher accountability, deny parents any voice in their children’s education, and pointlessly shut down schools during the pandemic.”<\/p>\n

People, this is just a taste of the intro from @JimBovard’s fine and true book, “Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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If you agree with what I’ve posted here (I can’t quibble with a single point) please check out “Last Rights,” which manages to be dire, terrifying and funny in equal parts.<\/strong> It makes a great Christmas gift for your awakened reader. Here’s a link<\/strong><\/a>:<\/div>\n
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