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Summary: I give it my "Boston T. Party Seal of Approval"!
Review: A fun and worthy sequel to her first book. Both are required in any American's library of freedom titles.For its Introduction, I contributed a rather piercing essay on the difference between Action Libertarians and Egghead Libertarians.
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Summary: Psychological Therapy for the "Postal" in all of us!
Review: As a combat veteran that has served this country honorably,
just to watch the "senate" and the congresscritters wipe their poopy butts with the constitution
that I hold dear, is almost unbearable. Clair Wolfe has in my opinion, has supported and defended the constitution as well as any soldier.
Her words will be shrined in the same reverence that I hold the words of Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry,
or Nathan Hale. ... "Those wo would surrender essential liberty for a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety" -Benjamin Franklin The Tree of Liberty is dry...
Time to water.
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Summary: Wow, Great book!
Review: As a combat veteran that has served this country honorably,
just to watch the "senate" and the congresscritters wipe their behinds with the constitution
that I hold dear, is almost unbearable.
Clair Wolfe in my opinion, has supported and defended the constitution as well as any soldier.
Her words will be shrined in the same reverence that I hold the words of Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry,
or Nathan Hale. As for the ignorant reviews (1-2 stars) I have seen here, they are unfounded in logic or fact. "Those wo would surrender essential liberty for a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety" -Benjamin Franklin The Tree of Liberty is dry...
Time to water.
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Summary: Psychological Therapy for the "Postal" in all of us!
Review: As a combat veteran that has served this country honorably,
just to watch the "senate" and the congresscritters wipe their poopy butts with the constitution
that I hold dear, is almost unbearable. Clair Wolfe in my opinion, has supported and defended the constitution as well as any soldier.
Her words will be shrined in the same reverence that I hold the words of Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry,
or Nathan Hale. As for the ignorant reviews (1-2 stars) I have seen here, they are unfounded in logic or fact. "Those wo would surrender essential liberty for a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety" -Benjamin Franklin The Tree of Liberty is dry...
Time to water.
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Summary: Only a Little More Time Remains
Review: Author Claire Wolfe is an adament supporter of individual liberty and personal responsibility. She feels that government has gone way too far in the past few decades in its attempt to govern and control every facet of our lives. In this book, "Don't Shoot the Bastards..Yet", Wolfe lists 101 ways that individuals can still salvage a little bit of freedom from an ever- intrusive government before it's time to let the weapons do the talking. Wolfe writes about several different topics, and her style jumps from serious to humorous throughout this writing. But the area where she seems to be the most gung- ho on individual liberty is with gun ownership. Wolfe recommends owning guns- lots of guns- as one of the primary means of thwarting off any final attempt from government to take away any more rights. She has other recommendations too, but the gun issue pops up the most frequently. Wolfe believes (like many other political thinkers) that gun rights are the most critical of all because once the guns are confiscated, there will be no means available to fight off oppressive government force if/when the nation turns into a total police state. This book might seem radical at first and in many ways, it is. But it's not radical to the point of violence. Wolfe reminds the reader over and over again that she is NOT an advocate of force. She just wants the public to know that there are many ways to salvage freedom that are non- violent, easy to do, and completely free (or almost free) of any cost. Wolfe wrote this book as a follow up to "101 Things to do 'til the Revolution". This book is written in a similar fashion, with a numeric listing of "things" to do. They aren't in any particular order, and the vary widely in length (some are less than one page, some are several pages long). But they all drive home the same point: America is not as free as it once was and unless government officials realize this fact and take action to restore liberty, it's only a matter of time until a revolution takes place. And at that time, the guns and the freedom- loving Americans who own them could very well come out of hiding. Read this book, and see for yourself how you can regain some of your lost liberty!
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Summary: steal a little freedom back
Review: Claire Wolfe has the happy knack of being able to put across solid ideas while keeping you entertained and glued to the page. This book is a sequel to 101 Things To Do Til The Revolution; a funny, thought-provoking title that has blessed my shelves for a few years now. If you are looking for ways to subvert authority, protect your constitutional freedoms and give 'Big Brother' a black eye, you could do worse than starting with any of Claire Wolfe's books. To quote from Claire quoting Jefferson Mack, "too often, too many don't see the loss of freedom as that big of a deal. That's the way the people who steal freedom want it. They want the average citizen still at the job, worried about what he is going to put in his mouth more than what he can say with it". This book will help you steal a little of that freedom back.
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Summary: A Fun Read for Freedom Lovers
Review: I concur with Claire Wolfe's thoughts about the errosion of individual freedoms in America, and this lastest book, "Don't Shoot the Bastards (Yet)", is another brilliant treatise on the subject. She offers great suggestions for mucking up the "control freaks" who thrive on removing these freedoms incrementally, using the slow frog boiling method. The web page references alone are worth the price of the book. END
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Summary: Claire Wolfe Rides Again!
Review: If you haven't already gotten both of her previous books (101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution, I Am Not A Number), you owe it to yourself to do so. "Don't Shoot the Bastards (Yet)" is a continuation of her original "101 Things", and it maintains her pragmatic, down-to-earth writing style, as well as her "we're all in this together" themes, but without getting preachy or hyper-patriotic. In a market of books that is over-run with testosterone and paranoia, a level-headed work written by an equally level-headed woman is a breath of fresh air. Wolfe writes of freedom of the heart, mind and body, and how it is slowly disappearing. Her suggestions on how to reclaim it, or at least slow down the process (without reverting to terrorism or running to the woods with shotguns and Spam), does my heart good. While not a "Steal This Book" for the twenty-first century, it's awfully close.
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Summary: Woof-Woof! Claire prowls and howls.
Review: She's fed up, funny and (best of all) PRACTICAL. If you're tired of losing your freedom and want to DO something instead of sitting around, Claire Wolfe is your gal. This one's right up there with her first book, 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution.
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Summary: Well structured, informative, exciting and down to earth
Review: This book has a lot to do with American culture and the self-perpetuating cycle of political power. It describes the nicer aspects of recreational use of firearms, and the use of guns against political tyranny, and slowly builds the stories of the protaganists and current laws. The underlying message is common in the logical explanations of pro Second Amendment folks - that guns are not evil, and only criminal individuals and governments with guns are evil, and that gun control is not about guns but about control. The book is an excellent amalgamation of fact and fiction, and does well to describe terrible acts by the US government, from the bonus army quelling to various raids by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The ATF are shown as the ultimate bad guys and abusers of power, attempting to intimidate the US citizenry into unconstitutional disarmament, and the protagonists are out to stop them. This is a bloody civil war on a small, graspable scale - the book is a warning against abuse of government power, without covering the broader spectrum of the gun control debate (e.g. the assault weapons ban barely mentioned). The plot is somewhere between realistic and far fetched, and generates plenty of interest and willingness to read on. Most of the major characters are believable and are survivors. Well worth reading and lending to friends who have no stance on the issue of the 2nd Amendment - the book may well prevent one of the greater evils - the indifference of good men.
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