{"id":20386,"date":"2024-09-04T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T02:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=20386"},"modified":"2024-09-04T22:18:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T02:18:04","slug":"no-one-outshines-james-bovard-last-rights-reviewed-by-george-leef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/04\/no-one-outshines-james-bovard-last-rights-reviewed-by-george-leef\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No One Outshines James Bovard&#8221; &#8211; Last Rights reviewed by George Leef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Last-Rights-George-Leef-review-sharpened-on-Photoshop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20392\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Last-Rights-George-Leef-review-sharpened-on-Photoshop-1024x597.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Last-Rights-George-Leef-review-sharpened-on-Photoshop-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Last-Rights-George-Leef-review-sharpened-on-Photoshop-800x467.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Last-Rights-George-Leef-review-sharpened-on-Photoshop-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Last-Rights-George-Leef-review-sharpened-on-Photoshop-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Last-Rights-George-Leef-review-sharpened-on-Photoshop.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hearty thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgmartin.center\/author\/georgeleef\/\"><strong>George Leef<\/strong> <\/a>for his kind words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty\/dp\/B0CP9VCNDH\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=&amp;ccs_id=c034e8a9-cb1b-4500-ae2a-b0f8d38eee3a\"><strong>Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 in the new issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/fff.org\">Future of Freedom:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>No one outshines James Bovard<\/strong>. For decades, he has been indefatigable in his work to blow the whistle on the waste, folly, illegality, and sheer villainy of politicians, bureaucrats, and other government minions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Statists want us to believe that we are still free, even though our freedom is constantly shrinking.\u00a0 James Bovard is their implacable foe. In his l<strong>atest book, Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty, he surveys the American landscape, reporting on many, many attacks on our rights<\/strong>. He keeps track of the laws, regulations, and official misconduct that are turning us from free people into serfs of the government. The book is packed with facts that should have your blood boiling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In his concluding chapter, Bovard seeks to awaken us to the looming disaster. He writes, &#8216;Americans must never forget that the most dangerous inequality is that between the rulers and the ruled. No private citizen has a prerogative to forcibly accost, wrongly shoot, and wantonly plunder their neighbors. Laws against torturing pets are better enforced than laws prohibiting government agents from tormenting private citizens.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Read Last Rights and you will grasp the truth: government has far too much power and uses it for many despicable things.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgmartin.center\/event\/education-book-discussion-featuring-george-leef\/\"><strong>an author<\/strong> <\/a>, a columnist for National Review and Forbes, and the research director for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgmartin.center\/author\/georgeleef\/\"><strong> James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewa<\/strong><\/a>l. George, a Duke Law school grad, is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/theclassicalstation.org\/\"><strong>classical music host on WCPE, <\/strong><\/a>a North Carolina non-commercial, independent, listener-supported station dedicated to excellence in classical music broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty\/dp\/B0CP9VCNDH\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=&amp;ccs_id=0b9449d0-2d05-485b-96e6-3f9fce08622c\"><strong>Buy on Amazon:<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20387\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/leef-george.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20387\" class=\"wp-image-20387\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/leef-george.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/leef-george.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/leef-george-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Leef<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-01-at-15-55-37-9798988403180-LastRights-Hardcover-Eproof.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18778\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-01-at-15-55-37-9798988403180-LastRights-Hardcover-Eproof.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-01-at-15-55-37-9798988403180-LastRights-Hardcover-Eproof.jpg 463w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-01-at-15-55-37-9798988403180-LastRights-Hardcover-Eproof-104x150.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearty thanks to George Leef for his kind words for Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty\u00a0 in the new issue of Future of Freedom: &#8220;No one outshines James Bovard. 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