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In A NATION OF SHEEP, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano frankly discusses how the federal government has circumvented the Constitution and is systematically dismantling the rights and freedoms that are the foundation of American democracy. He challenges Americans to recognize that they are being led down a very dangerous path and that the cost of following without challenge is the loss of the basic freedoms that facilitate our pursuit of happiness and that define us as a nation.

Judge Napolitano reminds readers what America is all about, that the purpose of government is to protect freedom, and freedom is the ability to follow your own free will and not the will of government bureaucrats. He asks the simple question, which are YOU, a sheep or a wolf? Do you blindly follow behind where you are led, or do you challenge the government at every pass, forcing it to make decisions that will protect our freedoms?

Judge Napolitano asks the questions that no one else will, challenging readers to rethink why they are blindly following a government that has only its own interests in mind. He asks:

Why is the government using the war on terror as an excuse to sidestep the Constitution?
Why are Americans not challenging and questioning the government as it continues to limit more and more of our freedoms?
What part of "Congress shall make no law..." does the government not understand when it criminalizes speech?
Whatever happened to our inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that are proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, guaranteed by the Constitution, yet ignored by the governments elected to protect them?
Why does every public office holder swear allegiance to the Constitution, yet very few follow it?
Don't we have rights that are guaranteed and cannot be taken from us?

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5 out of 5 stars

Our Nation of Sheep October 22, 2007
83 out of 93 found this review helpful

Judge Napolitano has done it again! With superb clarity he reminds us of the vast chasm between what the United States is and how the United States is meant to be. As in his prior books, the Judge chronicles the step by step erosion of our constitutional rights and now challenges each reader to stand not as a sheep, but a wolf. He also reminds us that the only power that government is to have is that consented to by the governed. If you read only one non-fiction book this year...make it this one!

4 out of 5 stars

I like his standing up for freedoms, but he doesn't make a complete case November 23, 2007
43 out of 64 found this review helpful

This is the third of Judge Napolitano's books on natural law, the Constitution, and the threat of the Bush Administration to our Civil Liberties. I admire Napolitano's staunch views against government encroachment and against positivist legal theories. And while I have a few disagreements about the extent Napolitano is willing to take certain rights as absolutes, I really admire his willingness to speak out and stimulate us to think about this most important issues. I really think this book (and the Judge's previous books) should be widely read and discussed. He is right that our government has taken secrecy and claims of state security too far. Senator Daniel Moynihan wrote a good book on this years ago. When he calls for the repeal of the 17th Amendment (allowing for the direct election of Senators), I am with him. However, shouldn't he cite the abuses that led to its enactment in the first place?

That being said, there are some qualms I have with the book. First, Napolitano simply makes his claims that our natural law rights are absolute and cannot be infringed by government. However, they can be. What he really means is that they should not be infringed and cannot justly be infringed. However, even natural law rights must be balanced against each other (the old swinging fist and nose argument). The judge NEVER explains how we should go about protecting ourselves from people who mean us harm given present technology. He assumes malign intent from Bush, Cheney, et al and never explains what he would do if he were responsible for the nation's safety. Do we simply have to accept buildings crashing down and thousands being killed? Maybe he thanks that is a fair trade off for millions not being "spied" upon by the NSA and CIA. He doesn't say.

Nor does he cite the Jihadists who claim that they will use our freedoms and Constitutional rights to attack us. Their chant is "democracy hypocrisy" and they work hard in the militant mosques in the UK and in the USA to preach their hatred and recruit new warriors to their cause. I am not sure how the Judge reconciles this fact. There is such a thing as sedition even if our country has had a hard time defining and prosecuting it. Yes, there are real dangers of abuse, but there are dangers on all sides and the trick is balancing them. The judge said he would rather fight than surrender his freedoms. Fine, but what form does that fighting take, how far is he willing to let the flames burn, and how many is he willing to see die to strike what he sees as a correct balance?

Napolitano also undermines his credibility when he cites as facts things that I have seen repudiated. It may be that I am wrong. However, on page 158 he discusses as fact that a female guard wiped menstrual blood on a detainee, but I have heard it was red ink. Do you think, even if it were real, this is torture? Impolite, rude, and shocking, maybe. But torture? And he says that an FBI agent dressed himself as a priest and faked a baptism of a prisoner and then threw his "Qur'an in the toilet. However, Newsweek and others have repudiated the flushing of the Qur'an stories.

Even if it were true, it is just a book and Christian Bibles are subjected to worse each and every day in Muslim countries. I am not advocating the flushing or any disrespectful treatment of holy books or any books for that matter. However, I am saying that people who are trying to kill you shouldn't get to dictate the terms of their imprisonment or interrogation. And where he gets the notion that Cheney is in favor of chip implants on certain people is not documented. It is something I haven't heard from a credible source and so bringing this up with the phony menstrual blood and flushed Qur'an stories undermines his point, in my view.

I also do not understand how the judge can think that non-citizens get Constitutional rights, how our judicial system would handle prisoners taken from a battlefield. He seems to be thinking along the lines of a formal war. But wars are fluid and combatants adapt. The Jihadists refuse to create armies or wear uniforms because they know the formal armies of the United States and other nations could crush them. So, they fight in street clothes and claim those killed are civilians. They do this because they understand the power of media and marketing in defeating their enemy through self-paralysis. This is why applying the Geneva Conventions to non-signatories and to those who do not follow its rules is moronic and classifying as torture anything more severe than serving weak tea and burnt toast is deadly silly.

He also decries the censorship of soldier mail and email. However, this has always been done and in our age of instant and global communications, how can it NOT be vital to do so? Soldiers do not have the freedoms of ordinary citizens, especially in theaters of war. This struck me as an especially odd argument.

These disagreements (and a few others) aside, I do admire the judge and when he argues the monstrosity of the KELO decision, I am with him. However, he fails to demonstrate what we should do and what costs we should be willing to accept to protect the freedoms he claims cannot be infringed in even the most extreme circumstances. When he cites phony stories as evidence, he also hurts his case. I also think that his false dichotomy of either being a wolf or a sheep is not going to get me to put on his brand of fleece and learn how to bleat in his flock. However, I encourage you to read the book and decide for yourself.

Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI

4 out of 5 stars

Be Scared; Be Very, Very Scared...... December 8, 2007
23 out of 27 found this review helpful

A Nation of Sheep is a book that documents the abuses that are being perpetrated on the American public on a daily basis, and it contains a litany of instances where the current administration has broken the law by violating the Constitution. It is written in a very readable style, and is a relatively quick, but detailed, look at the various types of abuse.

I did find several problems with the book. First, I got the sheep and wolf analogy the first time and the second time, and every time thereafter. About the 5th time got annoying; by the 10th I wanted to quit reading the book. In addition, there is really no conclusion to the book. The author makes a few mild statements about what might potentially cure the problem, but doesn't really advocate any change, other than to tell us all to quit being sheep and start becoming wolves.

While actually a three star bok due to the problems, I will give the book 4 stars because I think it's a very important book for the public to read. After reading it, if you are not scared, you really haven't been paying attention.

5 out of 5 stars

We need more Wolves. October 16, 2007
22 out of 48 found this review helpful

Excellent book. I knew that King Bush was breaking numerous laws, but I did not realize the weight of the lose of our civil rights that he has taken away. This book may scare you, if you are a wolf. If you are a sheep, you won't care.

5 out of 5 stars

Long Live the Wolves! December 3, 2007
21 out of 28 found this review helpful

Another home run by the fearless New Jersey judge! From the Federalists of the Founding generation, to Dishonest Abe Lincoln, to the flag-waving "patriots" of the present, Napolitano tells how our Constitutional rights as Americans have been undermined and denied-always by leaders claiming to "protect" us. When will we ever learn that government is the enemy of liberty?

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