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	• The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the ... Paul Craig Roberts, Lawrence M. Stratton Three Rivers Press, 2008 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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Tyranny of Good Intentions

The book was in good condition, as expected. And the delivery time was within my expectations.

The Emerging Tyranny of Executive Rule

Paul Roberts is a former government official and editor and columnist for the 'Wall Street Journal'. His articles are often on an Internet site. Lawrence Stratton has taught law at Georgetown University. They warn against the loss of rights due to expansive and oppressive laws that allow the confiscation of property without due process. Instead of shielding people from arbitrary government power the law is used to prosecute people to serve "good intentions". This 2000 book was written before the Homeland Security Act created more powers. [There is no mention on how these laws serve big corporations in their struggle against ordinary people and small businesses.] Today's corporations did not exist prior to the 1860s when only those businesses that served the public were allowed the privilege of limited liability. Corporations run by and for their management can often self-destruct due to policies that destroy shareholder value and worker's jobs.

The 'Introduction' teaches that people who use cash (instead of paying for banking services) can have their money forfeited to overzealous prosecutors (p.2)! "The Rights of Englishmen" says these rights are inherent in a person and are not granted by a ruler, unlike the Civil Law that exists in much of the world (Chapter 1). Chapter 2 provides an example of royal rule and torture to get confessions. The "third degree" is not unknown in America. The evil Jeremy Bentham attacked traditional law by claiming law was to promote the "greatest happiness". But happiness is an idea or attitude, not a concrete thing. The "public interest" (p.39) is a code word for policies that benefit Big Corporations. If someone like Charles Keating sells uninsured bonds through a Savings & Loan bank wouldn't he be guilty of some fraud (Chapter 4)?

The ban on retroactive laws protects people from tyranny (the rule of a royal despot). This only applies to criminal law (p.68). What is the real purpose of the Superfund bill (p.72)? A tax to fund government agents (p.73)? A way to export waste to third-world countries (p.75)? Note how small businesses are punished (p.77). Note how the use of "eminent domain" was used to obtain land for a school, then sold to a "housing developer" (p.78). Conviction is meant to be difficult to protect the innocent (Chapter 6). In a public trial those who were considered guilty are sometimes shown to be innocent (p.83). Jurors are advised to avoid press reports because they don't tell the whole truth. The Civil Law of Europe routinely used torture for a high conviction rate (p.84). Is plea bargaining equivalent to torture (p.85)? Does it allow prosecution in the absence of a crime (p.87)? Page 89 lists the faults. Michael Milken used creative financing to benefit growth firms (p.95); Wall Street didn't like this. Was Milken persecuted by publicity (p.97)? Was he punished for helping new competition (p.99)? Page 101 tells of the entrapment of ADM after they undersold the competition!

Chapter 7 tells how defense lawyers are pressured to betray their clients (p.110). Can Federal agents violate the Bill of Rights (Chapter 8). Would a Federal agent kill a multimillionaire so his land could be confiscated (Chapter 9)? The Forfeiture Act of 1984 makes a person guilty without a trial or indictment (p.125). Are they licenses to steal (p.130)? They list the faults on page 133. Do we need a Citizens Protection Act to prevent frame-ups by federal prosecutors (p.137)? They explain how this works (pp.152-154). Chapter 11 says Congress has abdicated its powers to executive agencies. Wasn't this the result of Big Corporations (p.163)? They say it is more important for prosecutors to get convictions than to obtain justice (Chapter 12). Yet the authors claim that Microsoft wasn't guilty (p.175)! This makes their prior arguments questionable to me. Bureaucrats have the power given to them by Congressmen beholden to Big Corporations (p.182).
The 'Bibliography' has forty pages of references. The 600 references seem oriented to lawyers. I wonder how many they actually read?

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Must-read for law students and law enforcement

This book should be a must-read for every first-year law student as well as for those in law enforcement at all levels. Roberts and Stratton make the case for how law enforcement and the courts trample the rights of citizens and endanger the public safety, not to mention destroying our founding document, the Constitution of the U.S. Be prepared to get angry at the unfairness dealt to ordinary, law-abiding citizens who cannot possibly know every nuance of every law passed by every community and state in the U.S., let alone the constantly changing federal law. This book will both outrage and inform the ordinary citizen.

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In this updated and expanded edition of The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton renew their valiant campaign to reclaim that which is rightly ours?liberty protected by the rule of law. They show how crusading legislators and unfair prosecutors are remaking American law into a weapon wielded by the government and how the erosion of the legal principles we hold dear?such as habeas corpus and the prohibition against self-incrimination?is destroying the presumption of innocence. A new introduction and new chapters cover recent marquee cases and make this provocative book essential reading for anyone who cringes at the thought of unbridled state power and sees our civil liberties slowly slipping away in the name of the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, and the War on Terror.

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