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Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans Are Being Harassed, Abused, and Imprisoned by the Feds [Hardcover]

Rand Paul , Ron Paul
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September 12, 2012
Government regulations are out of control. They dictate how much water goes into your commode, and how much water comes out of your showerhead. They determine how hot the water needs to be in your washing machine, and how many miles to the gallon your car must achieve. Since the Patriot Act, your banking records, your gun registration, and your phone bill are easily accessible by government snoops. Mothers are arrested for buying raw milk. Families are fined for selling bunny rabbits without a license. Home and property owners are strapped with obscene fines, entangled in costly legal messes, and sent to federal prison, all for moving dirt from one end of their land to another. Unelected bureaucrats, armed with arbitrary rules and no need to back them up, stonewall and attack American citizens at every turn. The damage can be overwhelmingly taxing---financially, emotionally and even physically.

And who is being held accountable? Government regulation and red tape run amok in Washington, and honest, tax-paying citizens are the victims of an administration's misuse and abuse of power. Now, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, takes an in-depth look at the legislation that is trampling the rights of ordinary citizens, strangling their ability to conduct private, everyday activities without egregious government interference. He highlights outrageous searches, seizures and arrests, and points to thousands of regulations that have been added to the books since Obama took office. Most importantly, he charts a direction out of this mess, and toward renewed freedom for all Americans.

These stories are of everyday Americans badgered and harassed by their own government---the very institution that is supposed to serve us all. This gross breach of our constitution is as frightening as it is real, and GOVERNMENT BULLIES is a call to action against it.

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Senator Rand Paul has represented Kentucky in the United States Senate since winning the seat in 2010. When he's not in session in Washington, D.C., he lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky with his wife and three children. Senator Paul is the son of Texas Congressman Ron Paul.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Center Street (September 12, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1455522759
  • ISBN-13: 978-1455522750
  • Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (108 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,119 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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63 of 67 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Land of the Free? Think again... September 13, 2012
Format:Hardcover
I received Senator Rand Paul's new book, Government Bullies, yesterday and read the whole thing today while, ironically enough, travelling all day and being greeted by the friendly neighborhood government agents of the TSA, those stalwart folks making travel not at all safer and immeasurably more unpleasant for all Americans. Senator Paul is on the list for potential candidates for President in 2016 if Romney loses in this election and this book is obviously his opening salvo.

First, the negatives. Senator Paul tends to be pretty repetitive in many places. I felt as though I was reading the same thing over and over in places and in a few I am sure I read the same thing more than once. The editing is not great. Most annoying Senator Paul spends a lot of time referencing the various legislation that he has put forth. After all he is a politician and he clearly has aspirations beyond the Senate seat from Kentucky. All in all this is not a great work of literature but it really isn't intended to be.

The gist of Government Bullies is a recounting of a litany of simply outrageous abuses of government power by unelected and unaccountable government bureaucrats, many armed to the teeth with guns and all armed with the nearly limitless power to make life miserable for average citizens for any or no reason at all. Each successive event that he records is more egregious than the last. A co-worker travelling with me couldn't even finish one chapter before he became so upset that he had to put the book down.

From groping airline passengers who have given no indication of being a threat to arresting and imprisoning citizens for moving dirt on their own property to early morning armed raids on Amish famers for selling milk, Government Bullies paints a picture of a government out of control. Certainly the examples he gives are the most extreme but the fact is that I read this book while traveling today and was required to remove my belt, my suit coat and my shoes before the TSA would permit me to fly on the plan that I had purchased a rather expensive ticket to fly on, a transaction between me and a corporation. We have our own cow that produces milk but that milk is viewed as a dangerous substance that can lead to my arrest if I sell it, as if milk is analogous to meth.

Government Bullies is like a repetitive punch in the stomach and a rude awakening for those of us with an overly nostalgic view of America as the land of the free. As Senator Paul is careful to point out, things are better in America than they are elsewhere around the world but we have strayed far indeed from the vision of the Founding Fathers and the principles that this land was supposed to be founded on.

If you can read this sort of stuff and not be outraged, you aren't really paying attention. In the name of "security" Americans have been trading liberty and freedom for a false promise for decades and the pace of this surrender is accelerating. From economics to "the war on terror" to knee jerk reactions to any event, we have as a people been far too willing and eager to turn over more and more of our lives to our benevolent overlords in Washington D.C. A chip off the old block and following in his father's distinguished footsteps, Rand Paul is a voice demanding that we stop the madness before it is too late. Of course it might already be too late.
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85 of 95 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Revealing List September 11, 2012
Format:Hardcover
This book is a must read for everyone regardless of party affiliation - or no party affiliation. While Rand Paul will never be confused with the great authors of our time, he makes a compeling case as to how we are gradually losing our freedoms in the good old U.S.A. at the hands of government. He accentuates the Federal regulatory intrusions and jailings. There are also local and state intrusions. In Montgomery County, Maryland (where I live) it is not legal to install or retrofit double key door locks (dead bolt locks that require a key to lock and unlock from the inside as well as the outside.). These are the only secure dead bolts if the door has any windows proximate to the lock, which is now required to operate inside with a hand activated lever type device; a device which is readily accessable by an intruder by simply breaking the window and reaching around to the inside lever device. Now that's freedom. Feel safer yet?
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63 of 71 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Rand Paul Tells the truth September 11, 2012
Format:Hardcover
Although I am not an ardent supporter of Paul, I have found him to be for the American people and what is says is true. regulations are out of control and with each new regulation more of our freedom is stripped away and as such I highly recommend this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A TRUE HONEST POLITICIAN. WHO TRULY LOVES AMERICA
RAND PAUL LIKE HIS FATHER RON PAUL IS A TRUE HONEST POLITICIAN WHO LOVES THIS COUNTRY, AMERICA. HE GETS TO THE TRUTH -- AND TELLS IT LIKE IT IS! . Read more
Published 11 days ago by CAROL COLBURN
5.0 out of 5 stars SCARRYY
This book is scary because it shows how the government bullies the people by taking all their money. The book is very well written and I encourage everyone to read it. Read more
Published 11 days ago by Political Junkie
1.0 out of 5 stars Big on distortion, low on the facts
This book is an insult to anybody who knows anything about government prosecutions. When citing cases, Paul frequently leaves out important facts and more often than not just... Read more
Published 11 days ago by Mike
5.0 out of 5 stars Eliminate about 75% of the Federal Bureaucracies
Rand Paul's book should be required reading in all high schools across the country. It might help counter, somewhat, the extreme liberal, left-wing political thinking that most... Read more
Published 19 days ago by Roman La Riva
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative reading
Should be required reading in every High School in the United States and also for every elected official in office.
Published 25 days ago by Wilma Sails
4.0 out of 5 stars Good to know
The things I like about this book are involved in the stories of the people themselves. While frustrating they are illustrative of the powers and problems of a government that has... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Brett Ashton
5.0 out of 5 stars Government Bullies
Very informative and challenging. I would recomend this to everyone who thinks our government is capable of no wrong doing.
Published 1 month ago by Stephen A Vosler
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is enthralling. I couldn't put it down. Definitely worth the...
Each chapter gives you countless facts about Americans (some who have migrated here, and made America their home), getting bullied by the government. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Leah Till
5.0 out of 5 stars Government bullies
Rand does a good job of exposing the various agencies who really don't have your best interests in mind. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Bimmerman2
5.0 out of 5 stars Sen. Paul for President
America needs Rand Paul desperately! He represents the citizens of this country,
not the Washington mob. Read more
Published 1 month ago by RICHARD L. BURD
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