Tyranny of Good Intentions How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice

Name: Tyranny of Good Intentions How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
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ISBN: 9780307396068

ISBN-10: 0307396061

ISBN-13: 9780307396068

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Authors: Paul Craig Roberts, Lawrence M. Stratton

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A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined social ills. The result: innocent people caught up in a bureaucratic web that destroys lives and livelihoods; businesses shuttered because of victimless infractions; a justice system that values coerced pleas over the search for truth; bullying police agencies empowered to confiscate property without due process. "A devastating indictment of our current system of justice." — Milton Friedman …

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List price: $19.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.91" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Authors' Note


Acknowledgments


Introduction to the Paperback Edition


Preface


Introduction: The New Robber Barons



The Law As Shield: The Rights of Englishmen



The Law As Weapon: The Trial of Nikolai Bukharin



How the Law Was Lost



Crimes Without Intent



Retroactive Law



Reinventing Torture



Turning Lawyers into Government Spies: The Demise of the Attorney-Client Privilege



Privilege Trumping Rights



Forfeiting Justice



Ambition over Justice



Abdicating Legislative Power



What Is to Be Done?



Deleting Blackstone



Legislating Tyranny


Bibliography


Cases


Index