More than just a hymnal for the choir Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Mark has created what will probably remain one of the true masterpieces of American thought. Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto There are a few original thoughts, however, the books strength rests in its collection of and concise articulation of our founding thoughts. It isn't meant as a right-wing attack, rather, it is a rally call for the right-thinking people of America. We need to stand up and show the government that it serves us--not the other way around. Totalitarianism is at its worst when it moves in slowly--no matter whether it chooses an elephant, donkey or any other animal as its symbol.Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto I have been told that a frog in hot water will jump out to save its life. However, you put a frog in cold water and slowly turn up the temperature you can boil it alive with very little protest because it can't sense the change. Well, America, the fire of tyranny is being slowly turned up under our feet, if we choose to ignore it we shall share the fate of the amphibian that can't tell its life is in danger. So unless you are part of this Fabian conquest of America, you may want to consider setting aside any political squabbles you have with Mr. Levin and try educating yourself before its too late.

A must read for anyone

Levin hits the nail on the head on what needs to change in this country and the importance of freedom and liberty. This is our generations "Common Sense". Please buy Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto and read with an open mind.

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Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Mark Levin offers a thoughtful, if biased at times, look into the current crisis that government has become in "Liberty and Tyranny". Most of the information is not groundbreaking, but badly needs to be disseminated if we are to avoid an utter collapse into tyranny here in the United States. Levin's main antagonist in the book isn't Barack Obama or even George W. Bush (he does accurately place blame on both presidents for continuing the explosion in government and the stripping of its citizens' rights); the antagonist is simply the generic power-hungry statist, which exists in both political parties and promotes government solutions for everything. Levin's idea is simple, the purpose of government is to protect liberty, but the main thing that differentiates government from other organizations is its authority to strip liberty from its people--a striking contradiction that needs to be addressed.
After a solid summary of the current status, Levin offers suggestions of what needs to be done to correct our wayward ship:

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

1- taxation - eliminate progressive income tax and replace it with flat tax
2- environment - eliminate tax-exempt status for environmental groups, litigation allowances
3- judges - legislative veto over judicial decisions
4- administration - sunset all independent federal agencies each year
5- gov. education - eliminate monopoly
6- immigration - eliminate chain migration
7- entitlements - educate about the programs; defeat national health care
8- foreign policy - reject treaties that have at purpose the supplantation of US interest to a global interest
9- faith oppose all efforts to upend nation's roots
10- demand all public servants uphold the constitution and justify their acts under the constitution

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Most of Levin's suggestions are right on, notably the idea to sunset all independent federal agencies and to institute a flat tax instead of the current progressive income tax. He does, however miss some very important concepts: he defends using torture on terrorists (a positiion that cannot be morally defended as it is not a sure way to garner information and there is no way of determining for sure if such people are guilty), and he misses the boat on environmentalism: we should be allowed to live in a clean environment--anyone who disrupts that is stripping us of our unalienable rights.

Overall, "Liberty" is a good read with wise ideas. Hopefully, it will lead to strong, definitive action.

About the Author
Mark R. Levin is a nationally syndicated talk radio host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation. He has also worked as an attorney in the private sector and as a top adviser and administrator to several members of President Reagan's cabinet. The author of the New York Times bestselling books Rescuing Sprite and Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America, Mark holds a B.A. from Temple University and a J.D. from Temple University School of Law.

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Levin's latest sounds a clarion call to all Americans to embrace our conservative heritage. In clear and concise language, this instant classic shows how "statism" has undermined the foundations established by the Founding Fathaers and why conservatives need to become more active. A must read for anyone who is concerned with the direction of our country.Instant Classic Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

The Left doth protest too much

The louder someone complains, the closer you are to the truth. I anticipate a lot of ad hominum complaints from statists here. Do not let them talk you out of reading this book.

In any given generation, there are but a few authors and thinkers whose creations can survive the ravages of time and the shifting sands of societal evolution. It is rarer still when a key book is written, recognized, and celebrated contemporarily. This is one such book.

Mark R. Levin logically lays out what has made the United States of America different from all other nations in the history of humanity. He re-introduces us to the founders and framers, and those people who inspired them long ago. At its most basic elements, our country was founded on the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...and that we have these rights conferred on us, not by man or government, but by Natural Law, which originates with the Creator. Mr. Levin puts us back in touch with our founding doctrines, which are the at the very heart of what conservatism is and has always been.

For too long, Conservatives have let themselves be defined by the media. Mr. Levin's book recasts what it is to be a proud Conservative, and gives voice to those who are often silent in the face of ideological slander. If you believe in this great country, if you believe in truth and honesty, if you believe in life and principles, if you believe in freedom and patriotism, if you believe that all people are created equal and it is up to the individual to succeed according to their talents and interests, and if you believe in a smaller efficient government then this book is for you.

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto Customer Review - Paul Winter says:
I agree with your post, but your paraphrasing of the Declaration of Independence is incorrect. Nature cannot give you rights. The actual text of the DOI reads, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

If you know the Lord, great. If not, I encourage you to seek Him.

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto Customer Review - John Meredith says:
"Mr. Levin puts us back in touch with our founding doctrines, which are the at the very heart of what conservatism is and has always been." The founding tenets of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were established by liberals -- Paine, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin and Hamilton among them -- NOT conservatives. The conservatives (then called Tories) were British sympathizers, who opposed the Revolution, secretly hoping it would fail so that they could maintain the power (money and property) they enjoyed under British rule. Today's conservatives are the same unpatriotic fascists they've always been, pretending to believe in the Constitution while secretly despising its principles.

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto Customer Review - Melody Hastings says:
I find it frightening that today's public schools teach little, if anything, about the ideals which founded this nation. Today, kids simply parrot their teachers, who are mostly liberal big-government socialists, and therefore have no appreciation for freedom, opportunity, and why the founders fought so hard for these.

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Conservative talk radio's fastest-growing superstar is also a New York Times bestselling phenomenon: the author of the groundbreaking critique of the Supreme Court, Men in Black, and the deeply personal dog lover's memoir Rescuing Sprite, Mark R. Levin now delivers the book that characterizes both his devotion to his more than 5 million listeners and his love of our country and the legacy of our Founding Fathers: Liberty and Tyranny is Mark R. Levin's clarion call to conservative America, a new manifesto for the conservative movement for the 21st century.

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Mark Levin has hit a grand slam home run with his latest book. Every God fearing law abiding American who still cares about the founding principles of this country must go out and read it now and take action against the knuckleheads in Washington DC. Mark lays out in great detail how the "statists" the Nancy Pelosi's, Barney Frank's, and Harry Reid's of the world are undermining the founding principles that made the United States of America the greatest country in the world from illegal immigration to global warming. Mark Levin is not only a constitutional attorney but he is also an intellectual genius who has fought these very people while working in the Justice Department during the Reagan administration.

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Willard Cleon Skousen (January 20, 1913 - January 9, 2006) was a conservative author, political commentator, and academic. He also was employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Skousen authored The Naked Communist and was the source of the publication "1963 Communist Goals" list. He later wrote a follow-up, The Naked Capitalist, based on Carroll Quigley's assertions made in the books Tragedy and Hope and The Anglo-American Establishment, which claimed that top Western merchant bankers, industrialists and related institutions were behind the rise of Communism and Fascism around the world.

Skousen was born in Raymond, Alberta, Canada, and moved with his family to both Mexico and California as a youth.

In June 1935, immediately after graduating from San Bernardino Valley Jr. College, where he served as Student Body President, Skousen began working for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. This led into a career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) the following year, which lasted until 1951.

Skousen attended George Washington University Law School, graduating with an LL.B. in June 1940. He had already passed the Washington, D.C., Bar Exam. In 1972, recognizing the sufficiency of his law school studies more than 30 years earlier, his law degree was upgraded to Juris Doctor (J.D.).

After the American election of 1980, Skousen was appointed to the Council for National Policy, a think tank of influential politicians, scholars and academics that lent support and advice to President Ronald Reagan s administration. Among the many solutions Skousen proposed included suggested programs to convert the Social Security system to private retirement accounts and a plan to completely wipe out the national debt. Skousen was never a tax protestor but campaigned for several proposals to eliminate the federal income tax, including the famous Liberty Amendment, which among other things, would return federally owned land to the states and preclude the federal government from being involved in any activities that competed with private enterprise.


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Rear Admiral Michelle Henke was commanding one of the ships in a force led by Honor Harrington in an all-out space battle. The odds were against the Star Kingdom forces, and they had to run. But Michelle’s ship was crippled, and had to be destroyed to prevent superior Manticoran technology from falling into Havenite hands, and she and her surviving crew were taken prisoner. Much to her surprise, she was repatriated to Manticore, carrying a request for a summit conference between the leaders of the two sides which might end the war. But a condition of her return was that she gave her parole not to fight against the forces of the Republic of Haven until she had been officially exchanged for a Havenite prisoner of war, so she was given a command far away from the war’s battle lines. What she didn’t realize was that she would find herself on a collision course, not with a hostile government, but with the interstellar syndicate of criminals known as Manpower. And Manpower had its own plans for eliminating Manticore as a possible threat to its lucrative slave trade, deadly plans which remain hidden in the shadows.

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