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Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History Hardcover – March 2, 2010

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YOU'VE BEEN LIED TO BY THE GOVERNMENT

We shrug off this fact as an unfortunate reality. America is the land of the free, after all. Does it really matter whether our politicians bend the truth here and there?

When the truth is traded for lies, our freedoms are diminished and don't return.

In Lies the Government Told You, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano reveals how America's freedom, as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, has been forfeited by a government more protective of its own power than its obligations to preserve our individual liberties.

"Judge Napolitano's tremendous knowledge of American law, history, and politics, as well as his passion for freedom, shines through in Lies the Government Told You, as he details how throughout American history, politicians and government officials have betrayed the ideals of personal liberty and limited government."

-Congressman Ron Paul, M.D. (R-TX), from the Foreword

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Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is Fox News Channel's senior judicial analyst, currently seen by millions of viewers weeknights on The Big Story and The O'Reilly Factor. Napolitano is the youngest person in New Jersey history to receive a lifetime judgeship. He is bright (graduate of Princeton and Notre Dame Law School), articulate (four times voted most outstanding professor at the two law schools at which he taught), and broadcast-experienced (as a daily fixture on Fox News Channel since 1998). He is the author of Constitutional Chaos and The Constitution In Exile.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas Nelson Inc; 5th edition (March 2, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 349 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781595552662
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1595552662
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1.25 x 8.5 inches

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R. Heuermann

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Prettymuch his standard stuff. Good book. More of the same - the State is circumventing the Constitution non-stop

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Scott Walker

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The Judge is a crusader for liberty, the free market, and freedom (which all continue to erode); and the essence of that freedom---based on Natural Law---is property rights. You can't help but be inflamed "[a]s we tear through American history from 1176 to 2010, and expose the use of myth to seize power and the power of deception to delude the public." He makes it easily understandable, and neither political party is immune from his barrage.

Seventeen lies are covered, and Napolitano gives examples of court cases where applicable. He begins by making clear that we are all equal under the law through the examination of slavery. I like that he recognizes the UA, especially that the slave owners will be judged harsher because they knew it was wrong. Here are some of the difficult subjects he goes on to deliberate: the detention/torture of enemy combatants; the First and Second Amendments; the CIA ["The job of the CIA is to steal and to keep secrets; yet, we know far more about the CIA than we do about the Federal Reserve." (If you only read one chapter, read the one on the federal reserve.)]; abolishing the oppressive income tax; states' rights; social security ["Before `retirement' was institutionalized by Social Security, there was no such thing as a stage of life where people were left to grow old in the lonely isolation of their living rooms or in Florida. It used to be that the living standards of older people were upheld through a variety of sources: employment income, savings, and help from children."----Napolitano "Retirement is among the most economically wasteful and socially destructive institutions created by government. The most experienced and knowledgeable workers are bumped from productive employment to the world of golf courses, bingo parlors, and TV watching......Retirement punted older people out of the active community of enterprise, where they are most needed for both their skills and their positive cultural influence. They have also been marginalized in society at large, so that young people tend not to interact with them on a daily basis."-----Dale Steinreich (Mises Institute)]; the New Deal (which continues to erode our freedoms); FEMA; the war on drugs; false convictions; laws that create criminals; and, the major wars and the deception used by our presidents. The wars are a fascinating and difficult subject as well, and I believe demand further study because of the many, varied arguments. I do think the Judge sometimes uses lie too freely in this instance.
Napolitano did humble me when it came to understanding the unconstitutionality of the 17th Amendment; and he brought new insight on the 2000 presidential election, where the feds overstepped states' rights. However, I disagree with him when it comes to holding trials in New York for the terrorists who struck the twin towers, and also for the detainees. I vehemently distrust the government, but I think he may take it to a higher degree---more so concering the individual. He is a strict constitutionalist, although I believe he can take it too far, if that is possible. He may be right, that our government is an oligarchy. He is a proponent of third parties, but I question whether they add anything.

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program" and "The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."----Milton Friedman

It all goes back to the Israelites demanding a King; we have been paying the price ever since.

"Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ball game to see the umpire." ----Judge John Roberts

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He's been a fascinating legal consultant on many main stream media programs and he's been a great guest speaker at places like t

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2016

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I've been a big fan of Judge Napolitano's for many years now. He's been a fascinating legal consultant on many main stream media programs and he's been a great guest speaker at places like the Mises Institute. He's a radical former judge from New Jersey in the sense that he maintains an original reading of the Constitution and knows the history behind those readings.

In this book, he does what he does best. He takes a look at many of the legal cases of the pat 250+ years of America and applies the original understanding of the Constitution to them. The "lies" in this book come from common sayings we hear about from politicians. Judge Napolitano draws from legal cases and the play out of American history to show that most of the sayings are mere platitudes. I have to say that this book was a great read because of several reasons. First, he covers so many subjects and many of them might sound difficult to dispute the original saying (aka "lie") as there are many of them that cover legal aspects. He does a great job of stating not only the legal ruling reason but what the real legal ruling should have been and what the moral backing for it should have been. Another reason this was so great was because he communicated well the natural law ideology. He doesn't make it a left vs. right divide but he condemns both political parties and applies what the original ideology of the Framers of the Constitution would have been. I would be nitpicking to say that his coverage on slavery was a little light and since he covers it first I was nervous that the rest of the book might not be as deep. Not so. Judge Napolitano's voice can be heard throughout this book and so many lines and cases were very familiar.

This is a great book covering an originalist's understanding of the Constitution, of historical legal rulings, and of common rhetoric we take for granted as "truth". Final Grade - A

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