“A shocking exposé of the extent and consequences of our government’s lack of accountability” (Robert Corbin, former attorney general of Arizona).
Gallup recently found that forty-nine percent of Americans believe that the government poses “an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.” I’m from the Government and I’m Here to Kill You , written by a former federal attorney, shows that even the forty-nine percent have no idea how bad things really are. Rights and freedoms are not the only things at stake; all too often government imperils the very lives of those it supposedly serves. Federal employees have, with legal impunity, blown up a town and killed six hundred people, released staggering amounts of radioactive contamination and lied about the resulting cancer, allowed people to die of an easily treated disease in order to study their deaths, and run guns to Mexican drug cartels in hopes of expanding agency powers. Law enforcement leaders have ordered their subordinates to commit murder. Medical administrators have “cooked the books” and allowed patients to die, while raking in plump bonuses. Federal prosecutors have sent Americans to prison while concealing evidence that proved their innocence.
I’m from the Government documents how we came to this pass: American courts misconstrued and expanded the old legal concept of sovereign immunity, “the king can do no wrong.” When Congress attempted to allow suits against the government, the legislators used vague language that the courts construed to block most lawsuits. The result is a legal system that allows official negligence to escape legal consequences and paradoxically punishes an agency if it tries to secure public safety. I’m from the Government ends with proposals for legal reforms that will hold the government and its servants accountable when they inflict harm on Americans.
“[A] riveting, ground-breaking book.” — The Washington Times
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Review
"The careful, documented drumbeat of chapters shocks, numbs and then frightens the reader with case after case of tens of thousands of American citizens who have been blown up, poisoned, shot, burned, radiated, assassinated and used as human lab rats -- killed through negligence, through hubris, through agency-building and often as publicity events designed to increase government funding.
. . . . . . .
"I'm From The Government and I'm Here To Kill You" should shock a nation, and Congress, into action. There may be no one in Washington, however, who wants these reforms, and that is the most frightening takeaway from this riveting ground-breaking book."
Tom Gresham, Washington Times, Feb. 28, 2018
" Hardy brings his legal savvy to trace how the doctrine of sovereign immunity is ravaging our rights and liberties. "Americans could better hold their government accountable when they were ruled by George III than they can today!," he warns. He walks readers through a long series of Supreme Court decisions that helped make government officials a nearly untouchable legal class.
The book's chapter on Ruby Ridge nicely captures some of the legal and other absurdities that occurred when the feds targeted a family living on an isolated mountaintop in northern Idaho. The Waco chapter is the strongest part of the book, vividly walking readers through the path to catastrophe. He points out that the April 19, 1993 fire was "so lethal" because "the FBI wanted it that way. No fire engines." When fire engines did arrive near the scene, they were prohibited from dousing the flames until it was too late for any possible survivors inside. Hardy includes some good whacks of John Danforth, Janet Reno's buddy, who was the figurehead for a make-believe reinvestigation of the disaster beginning in 1999.
Hardy's book includes an excellent long chapter on the ATF's Fast and Furious debacle, putting it in the context of the perennial effort to concoct reasons for disarming American citizens. Fast and Furious aimed to produce "a public relations extravaganza that would support the Obama administration's push for gun control." Hardy notes that the Fast and Furious gun-running program "established that [federal agents] could commit acts of war against other nations without suffering any serious consequences."
The book concludes with a passionate appeal to end legal immunity for Leviathan and its enforcers. Now if only there were more than half a dozen people in Washington willing to relinquish some of the government's vast power..."
James Bovard, May 13, 2018
About the Author
David T. Hardy writes from experience: he spent ten years as a government headquarters attorney, working in Washington D.C. He has published a New York Times bestseller, and his law review articles have twice been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, and by eleven of the thirteen U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.
Description:
“A shocking exposé of the extent and consequences of our government’s lack of accountability” (Robert Corbin, former attorney general of Arizona).
Gallup recently found that forty-nine percent of Americans believe that the government poses “an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.” I’m from the Government and I’m Here to Kill You , written by a former federal attorney, shows that even the forty-nine percent have no idea how bad things really are. Rights and freedoms are not the only things at stake; all too often government imperils the very lives of those it supposedly serves. Federal employees have, with legal impunity, blown up a town and killed six hundred people, released staggering amounts of radioactive contamination and lied about the resulting cancer, allowed people to die of an easily treated disease in order to study their deaths, and run guns to Mexican drug cartels in hopes of expanding agency powers. Law enforcement leaders have ordered their subordinates to commit murder. Medical administrators have “cooked the books” and allowed patients to die, while raking in plump bonuses. Federal prosecutors have sent Americans to prison while concealing evidence that proved their innocence.
I’m from the Government documents how we came to this pass: American courts misconstrued and expanded the old legal concept of sovereign immunity, “the king can do no wrong.” When Congress attempted to allow suits against the government, the legislators used vague language that the courts construed to block most lawsuits. The result is a legal system that allows official negligence to escape legal consequences and paradoxically punishes an agency if it tries to secure public safety. I’m from the Government ends with proposals for legal reforms that will hold the government and its servants accountable when they inflict harm on Americans.
“[A] riveting, ground-breaking book.” — The Washington Times **
Review
"The careful, documented drumbeat of chapters shocks, numbs and then frightens the reader with case after case of tens of thousands of American citizens who have been blown up, poisoned, shot, burned, radiated, assassinated and used as human lab rats -- killed through negligence, through hubris, through agency-building and often as publicity events designed to increase government funding. . . . . . . . "I'm From The Government and I'm Here To Kill You" should shock a nation, and Congress, into action. There may be no one in Washington, however, who wants these reforms, and that is the most frightening takeaway from this riveting ground-breaking book."
Tom Gresham, Washington Times, Feb. 28, 2018 " Hardy brings his legal savvy to trace how the doctrine of sovereign immunity is ravaging our rights and liberties. "Americans could better hold their government accountable when they were ruled by George III than they can today!," he warns. He walks readers through a long series of Supreme Court decisions that helped make government officials a nearly untouchable legal class. The book's chapter on Ruby Ridge nicely captures some of the legal and other absurdities that occurred when the feds targeted a family living on an isolated mountaintop in northern Idaho. The Waco chapter is the strongest part of the book, vividly walking readers through the path to catastrophe. He points out that the April 19, 1993 fire was "so lethal" because "the FBI wanted it that way. No fire engines." When fire engines did arrive near the scene, they were prohibited from dousing the flames until it was too late for any possible survivors inside. Hardy includes some good whacks of John Danforth, Janet Reno's buddy, who was the figurehead for a make-believe reinvestigation of the disaster beginning in 1999.
Hardy's book includes an excellent long chapter on the ATF's Fast and Furious debacle, putting it in the context of the perennial effort to concoct reasons for disarming American citizens. Fast and Furious aimed to produce "a public relations extravaganza that would support the Obama administration's push for gun control." Hardy notes that the Fast and Furious gun-running program "established that [federal agents] could commit acts of war against other nations without suffering any serious consequences."
The book concludes with a passionate appeal to end legal immunity for Leviathan and its enforcers. Now if only there were more than half a dozen people in Washington willing to relinquish some of the government's vast power..."
James Bovard, May 13, 2018
About the Author
David T. Hardy writes from experience: he spent ten years as a government headquarters attorney, working in Washington D.C. He has published a New York Times bestseller, and his law review articles have twice been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, and by eleven of the thirteen U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.