"Liberty in Eclipse" is a 320-page expose and indictment of our nation's descent into the early stages of police state tyranny. Topics discussed include the militarization and federalization of law enforcement; the establishment of a quasi-dictatorial "war presidency"; the evisceration of the Bill of Rights, and due process guarantees going back to the Magna Carta; the increasingly commonplace surveillance of Americans; the institutionalization of torture;and the likely restoration of conscription, including a military draft.
This book is great. It exposes the sanctioning of state violence, and the two tiered ethic between the average joe and government employees. It exposes that America is not becoming a police state it already is one. I loaned my copy out to my neo-conservative buddy and never got it back.