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Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century
 
 

Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)

de Gerry Spence (Author) "On the broad park lawn on the Fourth of July you can hear the people talking ..." En savoir plus
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"We are slaves. All of us," writes Wyoming superlawyer Gerry Spence with his trademark exuberance. "The New Master is an entanglement of megacorporations on the one hand and an omnipresent national government on the other, each stuck to the other like a pair of copulating dogs, each unable to move without dragging the other behind it, each dependent upon the other, hating the other, but welded to the other in a dissolute enterprise."

This decidedly offbeat manifesto will make Spence--who comes across as a left-leaning Ross Perot on steroids--friends and enemies at every point along the political spectrum. Among his tamer suggestions are a call to criminalize campaign contributions, forced voting for all citizens, and the drafting of judges for temporary assignment from a pool of trial lawyers. In case these ideas don't go far enough, Spence also wants to rewrite the U.S. Constitution. Liberal populists will cheer Give Me Liberty! for its unremitting audacity; conservatives will chafe at Spence's fundamental radicalism. --John J. Miller --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.

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Lawyer, writer and television pundit Spence starts his scathing critique of American society with Goethe's famous statement, "No one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he is free." This is a wide-ranging polemic but at its heart it reflects Spence's claim that Americans of all walks of life have been enslaved by the New Master, "the sum total of an amoral coupling between government and business." Anticipating criticism, Spence (How to Argue and Win Every Time) suggests that while the lives of African American slaves were obviously worse than those of what he deems contemporary corporate slaves, "a comparison is in order." Despite the tactlessness of this approach, Spence does offer a refreshing condemnation of Americans' obsession with work and the accruing of wealth. Many other of his subjects, however, have been covered often and are simply given a fresh gloss through Spence's slave metaphor. His "Twenty Childish Questions," for example, range from why America cannot educate its young to why imprisonment rates have risen exponentially. Spence never hesitates to depart from the highway of his argument for an interesting side road; while the force of his homespun rhetoric makes for an entertaining read, these deviations detract from the book's focus. The ability to raise important social questions and attack rampant complacency while simultaneously recalling Ruby Ridge and Waco reveal Spence as an unlikely cross between a progressive lawyer and a Western populist.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Socialism not corporations is the enemy of labor, Jui 21 2004
Par Golden Lion "Reader" (North Ogden, Ut United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Division of labor is the essence of a free market system. A corporation is a lifeless entity: it does not have a brain, a heart, or an living organ. Too say a corporation is a new master and the workers are the slaves is not rationale. The migration from an industrial based society too an knowledge based society means that individuals provide the labor for an organization and individuals create the networks to get work done and organizations are composed of networks of individuals that provide specialized labor.

A corporation produces product from the efforts and skills of numerous divisons of specializations of labor. So the idea that an employee or a group of employees are indepensible to an organization is not practical. Exchange of money by a corporation is forced by the individual based on the agreement and terms of services rendered. A corporation can not breach the work agreement without penality. So, a contract of sorts is formed between the individual and corporations for the acquistion of labor skill and services, in exchange for money or profit. This free market transaction is not forced on the individual, it is a choice to labor in exchange for profit. The free exchange of business is the life of capitalism. Capitalism is the life of the free market system.

An anomaly in the model is insurance companies. Insurance companies represent a break in the model. The relationship between the insurance company and its beneficiaries seems to be one exception in the labor equal profit model. Insurance companies acquire money and do not want to pay out benefits on claims without adversial compelling reasons. There is not realization of any labor service agreements and so the benefit payment seems difficult to access or measure. The contracts are not explicit and easy too execute. Insurance seems too defy the labor equals profit equation.

So, organizations draw upon labor pools to accomplish specific tasks in the corporation. The process of identifying specific individuals capable of providing specific domains of knowledge becomes the competing factor between corporations on the free market. Companies must compete for labor. The marketing of knowledge labor jobs is too accomodate a sector of labor for the exchange of money or profit. Sectors provides the highest levels of profit attract labor.

Making the megacorporation the enemy is a blanket discrimination. The real threat is socialism. Why did legislature support for slavery die? Because slavery was based on the idealogy of socialism. Socialism destroys the free market. The free market can always compete from efficiency, innovatively, and cheaper than any other market system. However, if the free market is burden under the idealogy of socialism, it oppressive doctrines and practices stiffle incentitive; workers have no profit motive too labor; the state supports an idle group of workers with welfare benefits; and the quality of life deterioates. The slave industry was destined to crumble. The founding fathers realized "cheap labor" provided by slavery would never last. Division of labor and the "invisible hand" drove individuals to gain specialized knowledge, the work for a profit, increasing both wealth and productivity. As long as socialistic idealogy does not destroy the workers belief they can labor for a profit, the knowledge worker will continue to think, innovate, design, and produce. The impact of the brain produces millions of fold of value. The human inguentity is the great producer of profit.

Did large corporations force small farmers too sell their land? No. Division of labor for small farmers was so inefficient they could not compete against large corporations possessing capital giving them an agricultural advantage. The agricultural advantage being fertilizers, economy of scale discounts, improved planting and harvesting methodologies. The free market benefit from lower food prices and more abundant supply. The small farmer could not convince his sons that farm division was profitable enough to spend their lives on the farm, so they sought more profit divisions of labor. As long as demand exists for a labor division, resource pooling will be available; once demand decreases labors migrate too new labor divisions and create resource pools of availability.

Large corporations represent a tax entity. Individuals within the corporation are responsible too invest, distribute, and utilize the resources of the corporation. Individual networks provide the specialization of labor and the resource pooling too keep the corporate tax entity profitable. If individuals support socialistic idealogy then labor productivity will cease because socialism prohibits profitable labor. Taxes reduce profits. Reductions in profits suffocate labor incentive.

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1.0étoiles sur 5 Bad ideas, cleverly written, Juil 3 2003
Par Thomas L. Lucero "demosthenes" (Grove City, OH USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: GIVE ME LIBERTY (Hardcover)
Gery Spence's ideas would turn these united States into a socialist dystopia. His ideas are anathema to liberty.

Example: That Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech is set in the First Amendment. We can be certain that the founders meant political speech.

Spence's solution: Eliminate campaign contributions, so that only thos who control a TV network or newspaper chain can influence the outcome of an election. While he rails against the big corporation, this one proposal gives unprecedented power to a small sub-group of corporations.

Whether you believe that socialists or social conservatives control the media, this effectively silences those with opposing views. Stalin and Hitler would be proud of such an idea - and to couch it in the name of freedom is obscene.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Good Brain Food for those worried about current trends., Nov. 5 2002
Par Erich Dieter Groebe (Springfield, Missouri United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
I have read several of Gerry Spence's books, some of which I loved and some of which bored me to sleep at night. This one is definately a must buy!
I am a 39 year old US Citizen who returned to the USA just 2 years ago after living from age 18-26 in Soviet Occupied East Germany and age 29-35 in "Reunified" Germany with the in between years spent in Hungary, South Africa and The United Arab Emirates. Upon my return to this country I was floored by just how similar the US has become to many of those countries whose governments I viewed as "police states".
In this book, Gerry Spence responds to many of my concerns, points out many recent dangerous precedents and sounds the alarm that our freedoms and Rights really are in jeopardy! For the first time since my return to the USA I realize that my observations are in fact valid and that there are others out there who are well travelled, educated and/or observant enough to see what is really going on.
Gerry likes to be a poet and he likes to spin fine webs of utopian bliss but he is also a very observant and astute critic of American ideals and images VS the reality behind them. Give the book a read! What else can you get for $2.00 that might just change your perception of life in the USA?
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Spence wants to buck the system
Im a fan of Mr. Spence and have owned all but one of his books. This is an interesting book, but your showing your lack of resonableness if you go along with it whole-heartedly... Read more
Publié le Jui 5 2001 par J.J. Waite

1.0étoiles sur 5 Empty, Pointless and full of Errors
Charles Fisher wrote in Newsweek that, “Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. Read more
Publié le Avril 18 2001 par David Gallivan

2.0étoiles sur 5 Good ideas.. bad writing style.
When I picked this book up in the bookstore, I read the summary on the back. When I saw 'All of us are trapped by a complex web of corporate and governmental behemoths ... Read more
Publié le Déc 29 2000 par swimminginarizonabay

1.0étoiles sur 5 Spence Dangerous To Liberty
Well, being a great admirer of Spence's courtroom techniques and dramatics (I am a third year law student), I must say that I was profoundly disappointed with this latest book... Read more
Publié le Nov. 17 2000 par Jason Ranew

2.0étoiles sur 5 Intriguing Ideas, Poorly Explored & Incoherently Written
Spence's writing style gives new meaning to the words "overblown" and "histrionic." His ideas ramble across the page in a seemingly random manner, skipping... Read more
Publié le Juil 19 2000 par Brian Curtis

5.0étoiles sur 5 free!
One of the true originals of the 21st century to hit the book stores. With lyrical style, Gerry writes again with passion and fire to all those that still have that ever important... Read more
Publié le Mars 21 2000 par kil kim

5.0étoiles sur 5 Let's Do The Changes Gerry Proposes
Let's join together to do the changes Gerry proposes ... that would be happiness ... To get the rule making of the government in the hands of the people ... Read more
Publié le Janv. 30 2000 par Will F. Decker

5.0étoiles sur 5 Lessons for everyone are found in this priceless book
This book is full of wisdom. Many authors are quick to criticize our laws and our government. Few are willing to offer solutions. Read more
Publié le Mai 28 1999

5.0étoiles sur 5 Spence's heart's in the right place
Just make sure you read "Why government doesn't work" by Harry Browne, because well all need to vote libertarian. Read more
Publié le Avril 11 1999

4.0étoiles sur 5 A great book until you're halfway through it.
The first half of the book was excelent in saying that it's not government or corporations that oppress us, it's both. Read more
Publié le Fév 8 1999

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