Posted on 11/07/2002 8:18:06 PM PST by Asmodeus
G. Gordon Liddy explains why you're not as free as you used to be - and what you can do about it
So much has changed since G. Gordon Liddy was a kid - and not for the better. In the latest book from the smash-hit radio host, When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country, he surveys the damage: restrictive gun control laws, bewilderingly complicated and limiting environmental regulations, politically correct strangleholds on free speech and free thought, and even encroachments on our property rights and due process of law.
Worst of all, Liddy points out how few Americans realize just how severely the federal government has restricted freedoms that our parents and grandparents took for granted - and how all too many citizens have forgotten, or have never learned, what made America extraordinary in the first place. This book is his wake-up call to those Americans, beginning with Liddy's rough-and-ready definition of liberty and an explanation of how the Constitution is actually designed to prevent encroachments upon the rights of the individual.
Telling numerous stories from his colorful career as an FBI agent, director of the Watergate burglary, and intrepid adventurer, Liddy examines the erosion of our freedom to own guns and other threats to our continued liberty: the decline in the quality of American education, the relentless liberal attacks on the military, and the damage done by the Left's idolatry of the environment. He brings his forthright common sense to the gender gap, combating feminist and politically correct nonsense with solid truth about men and women. In a revealing appendix, he even sheds new light on the Watergate scandal, tackling head-on fellow Watergate conspirator John Dean's highly suspect reconstruction of events.
G. Gordon Liddy fights for freedom and reveals:
Why America used to make the best cars and planes and produce world-class products - and why we don't anymore.
Why the Founding Fathers placed so much value on individual gun ownership - contrary to liberal distortions of the meaning and intent of the Second Amendment.
Why precision and clarity in language is so crucial to our continuing freedom.
Corrupt and unjust laws that the government could use today to seize your property and throw you in jail without a shred of evidence that you've done anything - and what you can do about them.
Affirmative action: why it's nothing more than government-sanctioned racism, although virtually everyone is too cowed by the Left to say so.
Slick Willie's folly: the facts about how the Clinton presidency left our nation with a drastically weakened military in an increasingly hostile world.
What the Left doesn't want you to know about your children's education - and why it's so important for you to take an active role in that education.
Julius Caesar vs. Jimmy Carter: an illuminating comparison that reveals the qualities a world leader must have to be successful.
What you must do as an individual, and what we must do as a society, in order to restore quality to American education.
Do you know the purpose of the armed forces? How Clinton and Co. obscured the answer to this basic question - making all of us less secure in the process.
Gun control: statistics from around the world to show that it simply doesn't work.
The terrible mistake of judgment that modern educators make - a mistake that could do nothing less than destroy America in the not-too-distant future.
Why you should be proud of - and deeply familiar with - the great thinkers and achievements of Western civilization.
Nuclear energy: the truth behind the hysteria and lies of environmentalists.
Somalia: how it displayed the full extent of Bill Clinton's physical and moral cowardice.
What the first President Bush could have learned from Napoleon (it could have saved him from defeat and our nation from the ongoing Iraqi threat).
Environmentalists: how they frighten the public with lies simply in order to raise donation rates.
Government regulations mandating smaller, lighter automobiles: their tremendous toll in lost lives.
Why liberal politicians tend not to understand the crucial role that intelligence pays in protecting our society (and how we might all end up paying for their error).
How Clinton's bumbling paved the way for Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia.
The traditional family: why it is so important to the health and future of our society and any society.
Why Americans have nothing to feel guilty about for our nation's high rates of energy consumption.
The attack on SUV's: why it's an assault on common sense - and your freedom.
Why most women used to look forward to marriage and childrearing - and why it's men's fault that all too many don't anymore!
Political correctness aside, men and women are different: why those who insist otherwise threaten our freedom.
The lesson that every freedom-loving American should learn from "The Iceman," a five-thousand-year-old corpse found in the Italian Alps in 1991.
The recycling programs your tax money is funding: why they're inefficient and wasteful, and should be discontinued immediately (despite howls from the Left).
Women in the military: how they have damaged the armed forces and threatened us all.
The facts about how we actually have enormous energy reserves that we could tap into with minimal damage to the environment - contrary to environmentalist horror stories.
Liddy's secrets of psychological jujitsu - and how you can use them to prevail against those who want to control you and limit your freedoms.
Why television is such a terrible threat to your children's future freedom and well being.
Watergate and John Dean: how Liddy stood up for the First Amendment against distortion and perjury - and won.
Flamboyantly entertaining, fiercely patriotic, and marvelously pugnacious, When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country will be much beloved by all who want to join Gordon Liddy to take on liberty's foreign and domestic foes - and to make this a free country again.
G. Gordon Liddy has turned into a crabby old curmudgeon ("Back when I was a boy ...").
We're a freer, better country today. Thank goodness.
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