2014, HarperCollns, NY, 262 pages

First, in case you do not get to see the cover, let me use the type-setting options provided by my webmaster to reproduce the title as printed:

The layout of the cover tells you exactly what the editor and cover designer at HarperColins thought about the selling points. Never has a title presentation on a cover so predicted the reception of a book. I would have titled it Spitting Into The American Wind. I suppose with his bestseller, Hostile Takeover, Matt earned a pass on this one.

If you are expecting a Stephan Molyneux reiteration of the nonaggression principle, a soulful John Hospers on the nuanced liberty of humanity, or a more Randian regurgitation of civics based on peaceful respect of property rights and self-ownership, never fear, this is more of a survey of the U.S. Government’s recent crimes against America.

DHPADTTS is a quick, easy and informative read, utilizing sources as dispirit as the 2005 Kelo v. City of London Supreme Court ruling and the most recent polls of what the youngest voters are thinking, to arrive at a snapshot of the American Electorate and the Pillagers and constitutional rapists they have empowered through their greed and ignorance. The picture that emerges of our youth is hopeful—really, how could they possibly be as stupid and morally bankrupt as the Baby Boomers.? The picture Kibbe paints of the political machine and its rival gears is one of a parasitic social organism scrambling to re-brand the evolving facets of its discord.

While most current liberty whiners focus on the Assassin President Kibbe casts a broad net and hauls up toxins more deeply imbedded in the body politic than the latest vapidly orating hood ornament. You might be inclined to pause over the fact that data 180 days old is not protected from warrantless seizure, that politicians are increasingly becoming multimillionaires in office, and that the well-meaning economics geek that wrote this book was beset by an armed private contractor at the behest of Republican fat cats who were his supposed allies at some Founding Fathers Resurrection Think Tank called Freedom Works.

Matt Kibbe is one of those rare economists that knows how the economy works and does not lie about it. Unfortunately he seems to be deluded into believing that Americans want liberty. The crazy thing about libertarians is they do not seem to connect the litigious nature of American society with its political structure. Americans like to sue people, which is all about taking other people’s stuff. Participation in an electorate is the most feminizing act one can commit on the political level. The Athenians certainly did not realize that they were resurrecting Gaia, but they were. Voting is an act of proxy aggression, the collaborative passive aggression of otherwise impotent individuals; a quintessentially feminine act.

Most Americans believe they have the right to hurt people with whom they disagree, preferably through the efforts of a proxy aggressor like a police officer or Navy SEAL.

Most Americans believe they have the right to take other people’s stuff, preferably through the efforts of a proxy thief such as the government or a lawyer.

I enjoyed this book, but I don’t see a lot of room for the title on the collective book shelf of the American psyche, and based on the cover, neither did the publisher.