I'd rate Murray's new book at the very top of all political science books I have read in the past ten years! Excellently organized, argued, and written, documenting the tactics and the motivation of the runaway Administrative State while setting forth a premise for responding to it that can actually be implemented, could actually work, and should find the economic support needed from individuals and industries being targeted by the IRS, EPA, F&W, BLM, Interior, and the rest of the usual suspects. While this goal was also superbly achieved by Silverman's wonderful Three Fellonies a Day, Murray's book starts from that point and proposes workable tactics to fight back. Up to this point, too many of us have been willing to pay the equivalent of "protection money" to keep the regulators off our backs since it’s obvious that few possess the resources to persist through the rigged Administrative Court system run by the agencies, staffed by the agencies, and applying penalties set by the agencies in the absence of any Congressional direction or authority beyond sloppily worded legislation to achieve vague ideals and wishes for things like clean water and breathable air while totally abdicating to Federal agencies when it comes to how Congressional intent is implemented.
Since the U.S. vs Chevron decision the Judiciary has also totally ignored regulatory overreach triggered by such shoddy legislation that sets no limiting principles and fails to protect freedoms--and especially property rights. Until our courts are forced to look into the actual fairness or Constitutionality of actual Federal agency decisions that punish people but achieve nothing, little will change. Currently, the courts wrongly presume unelected but very political agency bureaucrats had some "rational basis" for making decisions when, in fact, far too many are totally arbitrary and capricious and intended to punish specific individuals, groups, or industries who refuse to respond to agency desires with sufficient obsequiousness to the wisdom or agenda of the Federal agencies. What have the courts done about IRS targeting of specific conservative groups? Nothing. What has Congress done to punish the agency involved or to curb such abuses in the future? Nothing.
By the People; Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission’s time has come. While Mark Levin's Liberty Amendments laid out specific Constitutional Amendments that would, indeed, roll back government excesses and reclaim much of the liberty that the Congress and the Judiciary have ceded to the Executive Branch, our government ignores the Constitution already and the chances of any of those Amendments being ratified by three-quarters of the States in my lifetime seem slight, especially given the distortion the media will undoubtedly add to reporting of any such initiative. But Murray’s concept could start being implemented in a relatively short time. The People could claw back some of the freedoms lost simply by refusing to be compliant when it comes to arbitrary and capricious regulations that should not exist but the courts—up to now—have refused to strike down and the agencies implementing them have not been held accountable!
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