Mugged by the State
by Randall Fitzgerald
Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN:
0895261022
Hardcover - 155 pages (December 2003)
Your
own government is set to rob you. Scare story? Hardly.
Investigative reporter Randall Fitzgerald has traveled the country meeting
ordinary, innocent Americans with horrifying stories of how they have lost
their homes, land, businesses, bank accounts, cars, and other assets to
federal, state, and local government.
Thanks to out-of-control regulations, property can be seized, impounded, and
sold without recompense to the rightful and innocent owner. And as Randall
Fitzgerald points out, it could happen to you.
This shocking book reveals:
- How developer Donald Trump used a state agency to try to confiscate a widow’s home whose land he coveted for a casino parking lot
- How a family in New York was unable to move into their newly bought house because of a change in the state housing laws, costing them an eight-year legal battle and $700,000
- How the FDA shut down a Maine fish business because its processing methods were allegedly a life-threatening health hazard—but allowed Canadian firms to sell fish in the United States processed exactly the same way
- How a Utah cattle rancher was threatened with fines after wild birds found nesting on his ranch were thought to be eating an endangered species of snail
- Why few victims contest their treatment. (And it’s not because they’re guilty.)
- Proof that enforcement quotas—and fundraising incentives— lead to unjustified property seizures
- How corporate America cuts itself in on the racket
- How to fight back effectively if you or someone you know becomes ensnared in the regulatory spider web
Randy Fitzgerald chronicles a clear and disturbing pattern of government abuse that has gone woefully unchallenged. Mugged by the State is a warning, a call to arms, and a practical manual of self-defense.
