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I'm from the Government and I'm Here to Kill You: The True Human Cost of Official Negligence Kindle Edition

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“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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"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 practices law in Tucson, Arizona, after spending ten years in Interior Department’s Office of the Solicitor, Washington, DC. He has published four books, one a New York Times bestseller, and twenty-five law review articles, which have twice been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skyhorse (October 10, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 10, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Dave Hardy was born in Phoenix, AZ, in 1951, and has lived most of his life in Tucson. He graduated from the University of Arizona College of Law in 1975, after serving as an editor of Arizona Law Review and on the Moot Court Board. In 1974, he published the first law review article to argue for an individual rights understanding of the Second Amendment.

From 1975 to 1982 he practiced law in Tucson. In 1982 he moved to Falls Church, VA, married, and began work with Interior Department's Office of the Solicitor, doing the strangest legal work he had ever handled. (As part of his duties, he listened to undercover lizard buys going down). In 1992 he returned to Tucson and to private practice (largely spent suing the government).

In 2000, with the late Mike McNulty and reporter Lee Hancock, Hardy played a major role in reopening the Waco issue (an independent counsel was appointed the morning after he defeated the FBI's chief spokesman while on ABC Nightline).

His legal writings have been cited twice by the United States Supreme Court and by eleven of the thirteen U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.

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Carlton D. Ballinger
5.0 out of 5 stars Who knew
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2023
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After reading past the fast and furious debacle, I was mad because we allowed it and did nothing to the people who caused it. The entire Federal Justice system is corrupt! Excellent Book, and a great read!
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E. Rice
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, if opinionated, writing
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2024
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The author is an attorney with great credentials, and in each of his books sets out against government over-reach and perils. He's very persuasive. I happen to take his conclusions with a small touch of salt, but I do that with everyone's results in books along these lines. And his professional background means that he really does know how to put a case together and present it. I recommend this book as well as Mr. Hardy's others.
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Debra Omiatek,MD
4.0 out of 5 stars Government Becomes Too Powerful
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2020
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It is extremely unsettling to realize that government employees who are civil servants are actually not accountable for their actions. The details of criminal proceedings that involve the Federal Government show the interpretation of the law will always favor the law maker. There is no real recourse for private citizens. There is no real monetary settlement when a case is decided in a private citizen's favor. This brings back the words of Thomas Jefferson, a government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take away everything. It's shows that the greedy and corrupt have gotten into government like the Founders feared. It's very sad, reform is possible but not probable. The suggestions to improve the system were interesting but unlikely to happen. The book is a good read and an enlightening one.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone should read this and revolt!
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2020
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If this book doesn't terrify you that we have a federal government, nothing will and we have become of nation of blind sheep, waiting to be fleeced until slaughtered. Government has over-grown itself, over-compensates itself, and self-administers the legal system into being a No-Fault Entity above and beyond the laws of was designed to uphold. Don't believe it? Read about instances you'll remember and laws passed retroactively.

This is April 2020 and the entire world is in a Covid-19 pandemic. We thankfully have a President whose primary concern is the good old average Joe United States of America Citizen. President Trump and a few loyal supporters are working their butts off to help and protect our Country and its Citizens, not to mention the world as we know it, and who are their biggest opponents to everything they try to accomplish? That's correct; members of the opposing congressional party, the prolific but undeniably 100% prejudice press corp, and now even state governors who have tasted a little power beyond the normal scope and have abandoned reason for Hitlerism insanity and cruelty.

If Mr. Hardy took the time to research and write "I'm from the Government and I'm Here to Kill You:..." and I can personally remember all but the Texas City tragedies, that's way too many and we need to take OUR government back! Of the saddest, bloodiest war our Nation has ever fought, Abraham Lincoln said is part "...OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE." We have lost millions of lives in the name of freedom and human rights. It cannot be tolerated that our own government no longer bears any type of humanity or responsibility. This is AMERICA! UNITED WE STAND! TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!
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Joshua D. Zech
5.0 out of 5 stars Good, quick read
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2020
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This is a well written, fast moving book. The examples contained in it are well researched and flow well. Some of the news stories you remember might not have happened the way you thought. It's a scary look at how the government is not responsible for almost any action. This book is worth a read if just for the few, frustrating examples of the blatant lack of control the people of America have over a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people".
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ABell
5.0 out of 5 stars Great great appreciation for Mr. Harding for this fine work
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2017
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Subtitle: The True Human Cost of Official Negligence.
I read one of his earlier books, bestselling “Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man” —- and as with that work, this newest book is a real page turner ( albeit one that makes my blood boil over for the many innocent victims, rather than makes me laugh in utter disgust over Moore). I’m reading much of it out loud to my spouse, whose family shares 1st hand experience with the Downwinders.
Great great appreciation for Mr. Harding for this fine work. I hope it gets the widespread exposure that it deserves.
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Kevin Roman
4.0 out of 5 stars How the government gets away through bureaucracy
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2018
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This was a fun book to read though it is a long read so I recommend skipping if you know about stuff like Syphilis or the VA hospital screwing over veterans. It was interesting to learn about the Nevada bomb testing that blew over to Utah and poisoned Mormons as well as the Texas fire to rebrand munitions as fertilizer.
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5.0 out of 5 stars POWERFUL, YOUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IN DANGER
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2017
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EXPLOSIVE:Truly a must read for anyone demanding limited government involvement in their life, while at the same time maximum government accountability. Hardy, a Constitutional scholar, has been working his entire life to investigate government abuse and bring it to light for all our benefit. Unfortunately the lives taken by the government cannot be resurrected. Read this book it may save your life or that of a loved one. He not only poses the question of government abuse, but also provides the evidence of that abuse. Hardy doesn't stop there. He supplies several legal proposals to reform the system. His "proposals will hold the government and its servants accountable when they inflict harm on Americans."
-----------MARY KAAREN JOLLY, JD ---- former U.S.Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Counsel & Staff Director
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