Note
As recently as 2006, the conservative Supreme Court made certain that any "free speech" inside Washington won't be allowed to interfere with the process of opening up the U.S. Treasury to the predations of insider corporations. What began as a firestorm under Reagan has ignited into a nation-draining catastrophe.
In a 5-4 decision, Garcetti v. Ceballos, 126 S. Ct. 1951 (2006) , the Supreme Court ruled against the interests of all Americans, conservative or otherwise, by effectively vaporizing the First Amendment. As it stands now, any American in the employ of Uncle Sam can be terminated for revealing the truth about the ongoing criminality, fraud, and waste that ruins lives, kills people, and flushes billions per day down the tubes for no good reason. This ruling compares favorably with the Alien and Sedition Acts of another century.
As Dostoevsky once said, "Tyranny is a disease ... it grows upon us."
- M. B. Neff |
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YEAR OF THE RHINOCEROS
by Michael B. Neff
Red Hen Press
Published 2009
ISBN: 978-1-59709-137-4
   
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Comments by Others on YOTR
Michael Neff's debut novel is a stunning performance—a book that puts me in mind of Mark Twain after a ten year prison term locked in a cell with Laurence Sterne.
Robert Bausch, author
"Year of The Rhinoceros" is a compelling, utterly original novel that savagely and hilariously explores what went wrong in this country a couple of decades ago, and that keeps going wrong even now. Neff is a raucous new voice in American literature.
Robert Olen Butler
author and Pulitzer Prize winner
Rollicking prose, sharp observations, and a sureness of form make M. B. Neff's "Year of The Rhinoceros" a brilliant debut—a heartfelt novel of disillusionment and its consequences.
Gary Lutz
author of Stories in the Worst Way and I Looked Alive
"Year of The Rhinoceros" accurately portrays an important period in American political history wherein the struggle for democracy took a wrong turn—one we've yet to come out of. In this current era of revisionism and injustice, the truth needs to be told.
Thomas Devine
Legal Director, Government Accountability Project
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