The Tyranny of Good Intentions

In this updated and expanded edition ofThe Tyranny of Good Intentions, Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton renew their valiant campaign to reclaim that which is rightly oursliberty protected by the rule of law. They show how crusading legislators and unfair prosecutors are remaking American law into a weapon wielded by the government and how the erosion of the legal principles we hold dearsuch as habeas corpus and the prohibition against self-incriminationis destroying the presumption of innocence. A new introduction and new chapters cover recent marquee cases and make this provocative book essential reading for anyone who cringes at the thought of unbridled state power and sees our civil liberties slowly slipping away in the name of the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, and the War on Terror.

Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, and Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. A former government official and a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, he is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and a columnist for Investor's Business Daily.
Lawrence M. Stratton is the Robert Krieble Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy and a member of the bar in Virginia and the District of Columbia. He has taught law at Georgetown University.


From the Hardcover edition.