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Government Pirates: The Assault on Private Property Rights--and How We Can Fight It

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Using real life examples, Don Corace reveals how ordinary Americans are being terrorized, robbed, and in some cases even forced into bankruptcy by government officials and judges who have lost all respect for the ideals of freedom envisioned by America's Founding Fathers.

Corace provides an easy-to-read overview of the legal cases and political influences which have fostered the dramatic erosion of property rights in America - which continues today at a rapid pace.

Government Pirates should be required reading for every citizen and elected official in America.

I strongly encourage anyone who believes in the American ideal of freedom and the American Dream of property ownership to purchase and read the shocking property rights abuse cases profiled in Don Corace's new book.

Anyone who reads Government Pirates will be jolted into a new level of awareness of the dramatic increase in regulatory power held by local, state and federal government agencies.

The type of abuse of power profiled in Government Pirates isn't supposed to happen in America, but it is happening every day to land owners across the country.

As Don Corace points out, if Americans do not wake up and begin taking action to reverse these disturbing regulatory trends, we will find ourselves waking up at a point in American history where land owners no longer possess the legal standing or economic ability to fight back when government elites decide that seizing or restricting the use of privately-owned property will benefit "the common good" or win the favor of a special interest group.

As the leader of one of the nation's largest state-level property rights organizations, it is my hope that after reading Government Pirates, freedom-loving citizens across the nation will be inspired to seize this opportunity in time to unite in a collective effort to restore sanity to American government regulation.

A great compilation of property rights related horror stories, broken down by category: endangered species, eminent domain, DEC/EPA, etc.

After spending billions to defeat the dictators of Nazism and Communism we have home grown our own fascists...BOTH parties are guilty of allowing this undermining of freedom to go on....

In direct violation of the the Fourth Amaendment...Nameless, faceless judges and bureaucrats are literally stealing the life work of thousands of private citizens...

Buy this book and publicize it....We need thousands of Paul Reveres...

I bought this book because a local city council is overstepping its bounds and telling private property owners what can and cannot be done on their property, but there are so many other things that intrusive government is attempting that exceeds the limits our Framers put in place in the Constitution. You ought to read this book to see what some of them are and how we can all fight back against the "power that be" and reclaim "power to the people."

The taking of private property for government use falls into one of two categories. There is the taking of private property under the absurd legal theory that the object, itself, has committed a crime. This is the basis for taking someone's car when they are caught with a small amount of drugs, or for taking people carrying large amounts of cash just because cash is sometimes an indicator of criminal activity. The flip side of this type of taking is the taking of private property in a more wholesale way; the taking of property, or real estate, in order to promote "growth," in a community.

This book, Government Pirates, discusses the second form of takings. These types of takings are becoming more common through time, to the point that there is little apparent right to own property within the borders of the United States.The author starts with an overview of the problem; how judges have taken power to themselves to simply take property for just about any reason they feel like.

Mr. Corace deals with direct takings in the next section of the book, providing a number of examples in the next section of the book, including the Kelo case, the New York Times building scandal, and various others. These types of takings are direct, egregious, and easy to understand. In the next section, the author deals with zoning laws, which are a lower level, and harder to understand, form of taking by the government. Here again he provides seven different examples of zoning laws used to destroy the value of land.

The third section deals with takings through regulations, specifically wetlands law. Again, there are several snapshots discussing the circumstances and issues of several people who have lost their land through wetlands regulation, including those who have been told a simple mud puddle some 20 miles from any major waterway are considered "tributaries" to those waterways, and hence are subject to wetlands regulations. There is even one instance of a couple who were fined for destroying wetlands because they created a wetland on their property specifically for migrating birds. The next section covers the same sorts of material, but in relation to the finding of species being endangered. Finally, the author ends with a call to action, with some ideas on what we, as individuals, can do to stop the takings.

This is a well written book, with enough examples to illustrate the principles and problems at hand, but without overwhelming the reader with lots of complicated text. Each idea is explained clearly, in language anyone with a decent education should be able to understand.

This book confirms our country is headed into socialism. It will make you sick hearing about our corrupt government.

Every American who is concerned with the direction that our country is headed should read this book!

Shocking tales and unbelievable stories of what the government "deems necessary." The more I read, the madder I got!

Did you know that the government can take your property if a private interest wants it? Yes and it was confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. If you own a home and a private developer tells the local govt that it needs your property for a project the govt can seize your property for the private developer. Read this book and see how people are fighting back. It's a shame that this is happening in the good ole USA.

I read this book and found some of the stories about people going to jail for years over trying to "clean-up" their property just too hard to believe so I did a Google search on some of the family names in this book of people that were sent to prison for nothing more than cleaning up their property only to find that he does not tell the whole story. He leaves out the real reason they were tried and convicted. And it wasn't because they wanted to just cleaned up their property. He exaggerates and leaves out key issues.