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One Nation Under Arrest: How Crazy Laws, Rogue Prosecutors, and Activist Judges Threaten Your Liberty Paperback – March 30, 2010

by Paul Rosenzwieg (Author), Brian W. Walsh (Author)

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America is in the throes of overcriminalization: We are making and enforcing far too many criminal laws that create traps for the innocent but unwary and threaten to make criminals out of those who are doing their best to be respectable, law-abiding citizens. Key developments in criminal law and practice over the past few decades have raised troubling questions about the fairness of our criminal justice system as it affects the average American. It is time to confront these questions, analyze them, and subject them to serious, vigorous debate.

One Nation Under Arrest highlights a major effort to return the criminal law to its traditional and proper role in society: to ensure public safety and protect the innocent. With first-hand stories from victims of overcriminalization, One Nation Under Arrest sheds light on an insidious problem that few recognize or care about but which is vital to the fundamental values of the Republic and our concept of justice. Overcriminalization should concern everyone in America, both as citizens and as potential accused. Much is at stake for our freedoms and the freedoms of future generations. Taking the steps necessary to ensure that American criminal law once again routinely exemplifies the right principles and purposes will require much work, but the alternative is to squander the great treasure that is the American criminal justice system.

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English
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The Heritage Foundation
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March 30, 2010
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0891951342
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978-0891951346
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Just when you thought it was safe to leave your home, the federal government may have made you a criminal for very innocent actions. This book includes staggering true stories and information that make Kafka novels sound like Dr. Seuss. These authors have done the work to bring light to darkness in federal law and expose the criminalization of innocent actions. If you have ever had a chemistry set, have ever mailed anything, or just minded your own business, be very afraid, read this book, contact your attorney, and then demand that your Congressman help make this once again the land of the free and home of people who have reason to be brave.

<—>Louie Gohmert, United States Congress --Louie Gohmert

You could be a criminal! Literally thousands of laws exist that most people don t know about and which penalize conduct that few would even imagine was criminal. This book tells the story of ordinary Americans who were prosecuted and even jailed for everyday activities that ran afoul of the multitude of statutes and regulations that can be used by governments to trap the unwary.

One Nation Under Arrest shines a spotlight on the problem of overcriminalization the skyrocketing trend at both the state and federal levels of criminalizing conduct that could be regulated through civil law or administrative action, or shouldn t even be regulated at all. It is a must-read for anyone concerned with modern attacks on our most basic liberties. <—>Mark Levin, host of The Mark Levin Show and author of Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto --Mark Levin

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Heritage Foundation; First Edition (March 30, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 268 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0891951342
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0891951346
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds

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krister evertson

Unbelievably Good Read. So True it is Scary.

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2010

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It is hard to start with this review. I am in the book, so it is very real to me. My story is in Chapter 10. I have re-read my story three times now. On different days. Each time I started to cry when I finished it. What happened to me is so unbelievably true. I am so glad that members of Congress such as Louie Gohmert(R) of Texas, Ted Poe(R) of Texas, "Bobby Scott"(D) of Virginia and John Conners, Jr.(D) of Michigan held Congressional hearings on July 22, 2009 on this very subject. I was invited to testify to Congress, and they recorded my story. It is so important to stop the runaway unjust prosecution of innocent people for alleged crimes that carry no "mens rea", or in English, no "evil intent". I would have never believed that an inventor would be SWAT Teamed and then handcuffed and put into Federal Prison for an obscure regulation that no one outside of the EPA would have ever heard of. And to then be convicted without any intent. Wow. It is so un-American. So opposite to a freedom loving people. As I told Congress, it is very Scary. And so very Real.

There are two very well respected contributors to this very important book. One is Edwin Meese III, the Former United States Attorney General. He has a very deep, well thought out and concisely clear introduction to the present "over criminalization" problem we have in America today. The other is Former United States Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. He also really lays the problem out and how we got there. And how we should fix the problem. This book is very well thought out and written. I hope Congress moves and puts essential "mens rea" back into the requirements for conviction. Without the "mens rea" intent requirements, you could be next! The government could charge you with whatever regulation they want, and you do not need to even have known about the regulation. Or had any wrongful intent to be convicted. Believe me, I went from a freedom loving life, free to choose and do what I believed every God Loving American should do, to a life behind bars, with stainless steel toilet and drinking fountain combinations. Living the life of a "criminal". When you are not a criminal, it motivates you to want to correct the injustice. I believe in God, and he will prevail. This book is an excellent and informative read. Please help save the God Fearing America I grew up in. Please read this very good book and pray that America returns to its roots of Justice for All. And please give it to others to read. Please pass it on. Thank you.

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Benjamin J. Viloski

ONE NATION UNDER ARREST

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2010

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The author should send a copy to all the congressmen and women. They do not understand what is going on with federal criminal law in the United States. We are turning more and more into a country patterned after Russian Law than the democracy created by our forefathers. The statutes created by Congress and the disorganization of their application through government prosecutors will simply put more and more innocent people through indictments and/or in jail for sentences that are destroying peoples lives who are not guilty. The government cannot afford to continue on this path financially, ethically, constitutionally, or otherwise. The price to live free in America is not this high and should not be this daring. This book along with others (e.g.Three Felonies a Day) written by very competent Americans need to be disseminated to all those in the position of authority to read and correct the wrongs imposed on American citizens by its own government through faulty legislation and more so by the arrogant and imposing implementers (rogue prosecutors)of this legislation.

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JMNYS

People need to pay attention

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2010

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I have had a personal experience such as are portrayed in this book and I can tell you that people better wake up before it is to late.Until it happens to you you don't pay any attention.This criminalization issue is for real and many of these federal laws need to be repealed or clarified as to their intent.The U.S. has more people in prision per capita than any other country in the world.Federal prosecuters in particular answer to know one and while I realize there are good dedicated prosecuters I also know that there are many who will sacrifice your life as you knew it for their own political gain.

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Thunderfoot Briggs

Not a bad read

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2011

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Wild stories of what can happen when justice goes wrong. Eating french fries on the subway was classic. You can find yourself behind the 8 bal for the silliest thing.

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impendingaff

Exacty as advertised

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2012

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I really enjoy those wacky law kind of books like you can't walk your bear on sundays. This is just like that and it purports itself as true. I can't say if it is or is not. I read about something that happened near where I live (in the book) and can say for sure that that paticular one is a fabrication.

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Sam54

An easy and authoritative read

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2014

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Very well written. An easy and authoritative read. The book explains powerfully, how government has expanded its power, through the erosion of individual civil rights. This has put its citizens' liberty in graver peril. Through the erosion of the protections, originally vested in law, individual liberty has been debased to the point, where individual freedom is in no longer a right, but rather an ethereal whim, subject only to governmental sufferance.

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S. E. Regan

Good info on civil vs criminal law

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2010

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This is a very easy to understand analysis of how our laws have come to mix up criminal and civil offenses, making even every day mistakes criminal offenses with criminal punishment. This mix up has turned normally law abiding citizens into criminals, and deprived victims of just compensation, which they would have been able to receive under civil law, but not under criminal law.

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PilotPatriot

National Threat from Within

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2010

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A great book detailing how our freedoms are increasingly withering away. The first section is a little slow, detailing sad stories of people caught in traps set by legislatures, prosecutors and bureaucrats. But the second section details how we got into this mess driven by good intentions and the law if unintended consequences.

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