{"id":20822,"date":"2024-09-18T16:11:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=20822"},"modified":"2024-09-18T20:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T00:02:33","slug":"fff-and-george-leef-review-last-rights-no-one-outshines-james-bovard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/18\/fff-and-george-leef-review-last-rights-no-one-outshines-james-bovard\/","title":{"rendered":"FFF and George Leef Review Last Rights: &#8220;No One Outshines James Bovard&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"pb-3\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title h2\"><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 size-full 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=\"463\" height=\"665\" 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: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/fff.org\">Book Review<\/a>: Last Rights<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"published-by pt-2 pb-1 m-0\">by <span class=\"vcard\"><span class=\"author fn\"><a title=\"Posts by George Leef\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fff.org\/author\/george-leef\/\" rel=\"author\">George Leef <\/a><\/span><\/span><time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2024-09-18\">September 18, 2024<\/time><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"entry-content pb-3 clearfix\">\n<div class=\"article-icons-top d-flex align-items-center mb-3\">\n<div class=\"print-button d-flex align-items-center pr-2 pb-1 noprint\">\n<div id=\"id4116\" class=\"printomatic pom-small \" title=\"Click to Print\" data-print_target=\"article\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"social-share-buttons d-flex align-items-center noprint pl-1\"><span class=\"email-share-button share-button\"> <a class=\"button email-share-button-label\" href=\"mailto:?subject=FFF%20Article%3A%20Book%20Review%3A%20Last%20Rights&amp;body=Hello%2C%0D%0A%0D%0AThe%20sender%20of%20this%20email%20wants%20to%20share%20this%20Future%20of%20Freedom%20Foundation%20article%20with%20you%3A%20%0D%0A%0D%0ABook%20Review%3A%20Last%20Rights%0D%0ALearn%20more%20at%3A%20%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fff.org%2Fexplore-freedom%2Farticle%2Fbook-review-last-rights%2F\" type=\"button\">EMAIL<\/a> <\/span> <span class=\"twitter-share-button share-button\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"twitter-share-button twitter-share-button-rendered 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href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty\/dp\/B0CP9VCNDH\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2SIQZF6MTSAX2&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.y0XCsJwbYdC2IOAq6qa3TOYD9OKqmH2rBdiklepnNfy4kHDKmkWAYhLvErLFLdpoRxbq605Zc7BcnqJEhxbZSMpYxIN7cd0Mrb8Z6FzlKtw.xdR4-qavttYuPkWEQHUNc0hLBNpXhlFBIpK9sFQW5h0&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=last+rights+bovard&amp;qid=1726671393&amp;sprefix=last+rights+bovar%2Caps%2C115&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty <\/i><\/a>by James Bovard (Libertarian Institute, 2023)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"content-tweet-block noprint\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Read%20it%20and%20you%20will%20grasp%20the%20truth%3A%20government%20has%20far%20too%20much%20power%20and%20uses%20it%20for%20many%20despicable%20things.%20&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fff.org%2Fexplore-freedom%2Farticle%2Fbook-review-last-rights%2F&amp;via=FutureofFreedom\"><span class=\"tweet-box-text\">Read it and you will grasp the truth: government has far too much power and uses it for many despicable things. <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tweet-box-link\">[Click to Tweet]<\/span><\/a>There are quite a few writers who are dedicated to exposing the harm that our leviathan state is doing to the American people, but no one outshines <a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Bovard<\/a>. 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. Even regular readers of <i>Future of Freedom<\/i> may underestimate the frightening degree to which our liberty has been curtailed by government at all levels because so much of it happens in secret. The statists want to keep people in the dark as to their nefarious and unconstitutional actions. They want us to believe that we are still free, even though our freedom is constantly shrinking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Bovard is their implacable foe. In his latest book, <i>Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty<\/i>, he surveys the American landscape, reporting on many, many attacks on our rights. 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. In this review, I can only give you a sampling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>The leviathan state<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with the abominable practice of civil-asset forfeiture. Under civil-asset forfeiture, Americans can have their property taken by \u201claw-enforcement\u201d officials simply because someone in authority claims that the property might have been involved in illegality and is therefore \u201cguilty.\u201d After the seizure \u2014 of cash, a car, even a house \u2014 the owner has to go to court if he wants the property returned, with the burden of proving his innocence. That costs time and money that many people just don\u2019t have.<\/p>\n<p>How bad is this? Bovard tells us that between 2001 and 2014, more than $2.5 billion in cash was seized by law enforcement via civil-asset forfeiture. Often, this is done by pulling motorists over, finding some pretext for a search, and then confiscating cash that might be found. No matter if the money was to be used for some perfectly honest use and had been legitimately earned. The police will get to keep the money unless the individual manages to prevail in court. What\u2019s worse, he may even have to pay a fee to be allowed to contest the seizure. It\u2019s an appalling violation of the principles of due process of law.<\/p>\n<p>The government would like to keep people in the dark about this, of course. Bovard writes, \u201cThe feds have gone to bizarre lengths to assure that forfeiture remains inscrutable. In 2004, the Justice Department ordered hundreds of federal depositary libraries to remove and destroy its publication entitled \u2018Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedures\u2019 because it might help victims to fight back.\u201d Fortunately, librarians refused to go along with that directive.<\/p>\n<p>Bovard also trains his sights on gun control, identifying many of the dishonest schemes politicians have used in recent years to take guns away from Americans in the belief that regular people cannot be trusted with them. Consider the uproar over \u201cassault weapons,\u201d a meaningless term invented simply to frighten clueless voters and get them to think that the politicians were intent on protecting them. Bovard quotes the late Charles Krauthammer, who observed \u201cThe only justification is not to reduce crime, but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.\u201d Exactly \u2014 the goal of our statist overlords is a disarmed, obedient populace that will not and cannot challenge their control.<\/p>\n<p>While the politicians do all they can to keep firearms out of the hands of the public, they have allowed and even encouraged appalling lawlessness by the police and other gun-toting government agencies. The last few decades have seen a frightening increase in violent raids by them. For no reason, our \u201claw-enforcement\u201d officials resort more and more to no-knock raids by SWAT teams who barge in throwing flash-bang grenades. Such raids, sometimes at wrong addresses, are usually authorized by sympathetic judges because the cops have said that firearms might be present. People and pets are often injured or killed. In one particularly horrible case, a Navy veteran and his wife were gunned down in a drug raid based on a lie by the officer who procured the warrant.<\/p>\n<p>To make things worse, the trigger-happy officials are almost never held to account for their conduct due to the absurd doctrine of \u201cqualified immunity,\u201d a court-created rule that allows our \u201cpublic servants\u201d to escape liability for their wrongful conduct. Finally, Bovard shows how government officials conspire to keep records of police violence out of the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>How about our public-education system? Bovard makes it clear that it\u2019s deplorable, run by purported experts who push silly fads and think that \u201cequity\u201d requires equally poor educational outcomes for all racial groups. Public schools are run by and for the benefit of the administrators and teachers, not the students. During the COVID mania, teachers unions demanded and got school lockdowns for \u201csafety\u201d despite the fact that children were at very low risk of contracting the disease. Thus, taxpayers had to pay for extended vacations for teachers who went through the motions of holding classes online. Students learned even less than usual, but at least the teachers were protected.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe we shouldn\u2019t be too upset over the closing of public schools, since much of what the students are taught is \u201cprogressive\u201d propaganda. The schools have fallen completely under the control of aggressive leftist zealots who use them to shape how people will think. Bovard quotes from a paper by the National Council of Teachers of English that declares, \u201cstudents should learn to identify and disrupt the inequalities of contemporary life, including structural racism, sexism, consumerism, and economic injustice.\u201d Due to their \u201ctraining\u201d in politicized education school programs, most teachers are far better prepared to indoctrinate children with leftist beliefs than to teach them the skills they need. To the statists, ideological programming is far more important than teaching educational basics.<\/p>\n<p>Oh \u2014 and these so-called educators do all they can to keep students from escaping from their clutches. Home schooling especially horrifies them. They denounce it as \u201cdangerous\u201d because parents might fail to imbue their children with the right \u201cpublic values,\u201d which of course means that the kids won\u2019t be learning the collectivist clich\u00e9s so beloved of our rulers. They want them to be, Bovard writes, \u201cpliable for propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another big set of topics for Bovard\u2019s sharp pen is the assortment of governmental programs that are supposed to keep us safe. There is the Transportation Security Administration, a multibillion dollar boondoggle providing cushy jobs for hordes of people who hassle and delay travelers in our airports. TSA abuses are legion but almost never called to account because the courts have taken the approach that \u201cit\u2019s not an assault when federal agents do it.\u201d A few individuals have tried to blow the whistle, but they\u2019ve been silenced or ignored.<\/p>\n<p>We also have government snooping thanks to the Patriot Act, which \u201ctreats every citizen like a suspected terrorist and every federal agent like a proven angel.\u201d Never mind that in 1978 Congress passed a law meant to keep the feds from spying on American citizens, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It set up a secret court, the FISA court, to oversee federal surveillance and say \u201cno\u201d when it was unwarranted. But it has turned out to be nothing but a useless formality, allowing government snooping in virtually all instances. And still, President George W. Bush\u2019s attorney general stated that the president has \u201cinherent authority\u201d to authorize electronic surveillance without any judicial approval at all. That sums up the trend in America toward omnipotent government.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s response to COVID was a relentless assault on the liberties of the people. There was no law allowing officials to take the actions they did, such as requiring that \u201cnonessential\u201d businesses close and that people must take the \u201cvaccine\u201d jabs or lose their jobs. Nor was there any science behind the decrees, although that was the pretext. The orders were given because that\u2019s what authoritarians like to do \u2014 give orders. And to shore up support for their actions, the politicians conspired with tech companies to suppress dissent by people who doubted that the government was acting in the public interest but instead trying to justify its array of mandates and prohibitions. Keeping the people ignorant and compliant was crucial, and it spawned what Bovard calls \u201cone of the most brazen coverups in U.S. history\u201d \u2014 namely, the government\u2019s role in creating the virus in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Bovard also exposes the utter corruption of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, Centers for Disease Control, and other arms of the state that now work not for the public but for the power-mad coalition that wants an ever-growing federal leviathan.<\/p>\n<p><b>Never trust the state<\/b><\/p>\n<p>These days, we hear almost incessantly that \u201cour democracy\u201d is in danger, when the fact of the matter is that democracy has been crumbling for decades, as politicians, bureaucrats, and judges trample all over our rights. In his concluding chapter, <strong>Bovard seeks to awaken us to the looming disaster.\u00a0<\/strong> He writes, \u201cAmericans 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. Once government is irrevocably presumed benevolent, curbing politicians\u2019 power is almost impossible. The endless appeals to government as a \u2018force for good\u2019 camouflage the evils that politicians regularly commit.\u201d <strong>That is exactly what <i>Last Rights<\/i> seeks to counter \u2014 the idea that we should trust government to do good things with power. Read it and you will grasp the truth: government has far too much power and uses it for many despicable things.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published in the September 2024 issue of<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fff.org\/explore-freedom\/journal\/\">Future of Freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"efcategory\">Categories: <span class=\"cat-item cat-item-9\"><a title=\"More Book Reviews\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fff.org\/explore-freedom\/articles\/category\/book-reviews\/\">Book Reviews<\/a>, <\/span><span class=\"cat-item cat-item-1\"><a title=\"More Civil Liberties &amp; Privacy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fff.org\/explore-freedom\/articles\/category\/civil-liberties-amp-privacy\/\">Civil Liberties &amp; Privacy<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review: Last Rights by George Leef September 18, 2024 EMAIL Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty by James Bovard (Libertarian Institute, 2023) Read it and you will grasp the truth: government has far too much power and uses it for many despicable things. 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