Nothing is more precious than liberty. While the words of our founding fathers still remain, many of their insightful and hard-won protections have been slowly, yet continually eroded through the pressures of special interest groups, the ignorance or indifference of our elected officials, the federal courts, and the fifth estate, our unelected bureaucracy. In many ways we have circled back nearly two hundred and twenty years to the point of inspiration of the American Revolution. Siminoff shows that some of the same issues are haunting us once again.

    The Liberty Crisis belongs to no political spectrum. It is not a book written for Democrats, Republicans, or Libertarians. The abuses have sapped our economy, contributed to the loss of jobs, and caused business to move out of the United States. It has created a climate where government views those in the regulated community as the "enemy."

    The Liberty Crisis shows the depth of the problem and offers solutions that cannot come from existing laws, law makers, or courts, but must come from grassroots efforts of a concerned citizenry. 

Reviews

    "Siminoff shows how Congress has abdicated its authority to these over-zealous bureaucrats who have slowly undermined our cherished freedoms, resulting in challenges to our traditions of due process and fair play."

John Galandak,
President of the Foundation for Free Enterprise

    "The Liberty Crisis belongs to no political spectrum. Rather, the dilemma cuts across party lines and touches all of us. No one, whether in business, active or retired, is immune from the negative effects of overregulation."

John P. Scott,
Senator, 36th District,
New Jersey

About The Author

    BRUCE G. SIMINOFF is a partner in a New Jersey based venture capital and real estate development company. He has served as president of Customedix Corporation, has served on numerous boards of directors, and is active in community volunteer activities. He is currently Director of the Commerce & Industry Association (N.J.), and Chairman of its State Issues Committee. He is the author of Victim: Caught in the Environmental Web, as well as numerous articles. He has lectured extensively on the subject of environmental regulation. 

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ISBN 0-944435-27-0
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    The siren song of "Environmentalism" has enamored many. The Environmental Clean-Up Responsibility Act became law in New Jersey in 1983, but a myriad of complex regulations have created a hysterical torrent. Constitutional protections have been breached while a patchwork of rules and regulations has caused serious dislocations to commerce, jobs, and the lives of many ordinary citizens. In New Jersey, the storage of mounds of dirt can be illegal; failing in business can land a person in jail; grass clippings and leaves have become regulated waste products; to move a rock in a stream or to cut down a tree can bring heavy fines; and a farmer using water to grow blueberries or cranberries can be fined millions of dollars for despoiling "wet-lands." 

    Cities cannot foreclose on companies that neglect to pay real estate taxes because, upon doing so, they become the present owner and hence responsible for clean up costs. Owners of older buildings have become financially responsible for the pollution of others. A Pennsylvania man is facing jail because he unwittingly filled in a wet area even while improving it. A New Jersey businessman currently faces a criminal indictment for the crime of "going out of business." Victim takes the reader through the hysterical, convoluted process of present day environmental regulation, while attempting to seek a better solution. Bruce G. Siminoff believes it is possible to clean up the environment.

Reviews

    "If this country is destroyed, it will be destroyed by mindless bureaucrats and Kafkaesque regulation much sooner than by the pollution we all want cleaned up."

Franklin G. Reick,
President,
Fluoramics Inc.

    "Victim provides many examples of how environmental overkill can cost jobs and economic loss while adversely affecting the lives of the people."

Richard L. Duprey,
Director of Government Relations,
Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey.

"I recommend it highly."

Alan Caruba,
Bookviews

About The Author

    The late Bruce G. Siminoff. . . served as chairman of the ECRA Task Force of the Commerce & Industry Association (N.J.). Mr. Siminoff's many books and articles include The Liberty Crisis and Victim: Caught in the Environmental Web, Glenbridge Publishing Ltd. He lectured extensively on environmental and business affairs.

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