The Ron Paul Liberty Report interviews author James Bovard.

Last Rights: "The Death of American Liberty."

Americans today have the “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, wiretapped, injected, censored, injected, ticketed, disarmed, beaten, vilified, detained, and maybe shot by government agents. Politicians are hell-bent on protecting citizens against everything except Uncle Sam. Is America becoming a Cage Keeper Democracy where voters merely ratify the latest demolition of their rights and liberties?

“We live in a world in which everything has been criminalized,” warned Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. There are now more than 5,200 separate federal criminal offenses, a 36% increase since the 1990s, along with tens of thousands of state and local crimes. More laws mean more violators who can be harshly punished on command, resulting in the arrests of more than 10 million Americans each year. Thanks to the Supreme Court, police can lock up anyone accused of “even a very minor criminal offense” such as an unbuckled seatbelt.

It's not exactly rocket science. The erosion of liberty in the United States, (predictably) correlates directly with its decline.

It's such a Uniparty game too. If D is for it, R is against it, then vice versa. Partisanship creates support in places it otherwise would not exist. Thus, slowly but surely, Washington, DC, gets every power it desires.

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