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Packed with humor and examples, this book keeps you awake with much thought on the Bush administration. It is about how the executive branch is taking our freedom from under us. Written by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose in 2007, Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch’s Assault on America’s Fundamental Rights is a raw and comical book. The authors have written two earlier books about their displeasure with President George W. Bush.
This was the last book written before Molly Ivins passed away. A Texan liberal, Ivins was actively traveling and displaying her freedom of speech once a month. The idea came from those travels and was originally a tale of the heroes that exercised these rights, but changed as she recognized the injustice and threats against our rights guaranteed by the “Bill of Rights.” Most of her writing subject was bout Texas. Lou Dubose is the co-author of this book; he has also written The Hammer: Tom DeLay, God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress. He has been covering Texas politics for twenty-five years.
Wiretaps, charges against individuals who stand up for their rights and unlawful imprisonment of US citizens are all too common in the Bush administration. The book begins with citizens being arrested for peacefully protesting during presidential campaigns. Those individuals filed suit against the president to rebel against a government that attempts to take their freedom away. There is a quote that stands out and explains a lot: “you can’t trade your freedom for security. Because in the end you lose both” (Brandon Mayfield). Many of the population have grown to fear the government that was set up to “guarantee unalienable rights.” Since 9/11, we have given so much power to the president that we have given up a lot of our rights. Those rights are the important factors that allow us to keep our government in check. A Pennsylvania town has even enforced their beliefs in school when they forced the Dover School District to...