The story of Julian Heicklen and the Tyranny Fighters – as
reported by Garry Reed for his Libertarian News Examiner online feature in over
70 news and commentary articles as the events unfolded – have been collected and
published in a single volume.
All of
the original articles are here, amplified with original introductory notes by
the author and by never before published background material from
activist emails, reader comments and reports from major media news articles.
From the back cover blurb:
Who are these Tyranny Fighters?
And who is Julian Heicklen?
For nearly three years these rights activists were heckled, harassed,
hounded, arrested, abused, prosecuted and jailed — and Julian himself was
injected more than once with powerful antipsychotic drugs — for committing the
"crime" of peacefully distributing leaflets on public sidewalks to
people who voluntarily accepted them.
"Originally, I went to the US District
Court in Manhattan to inform juries of their rights. For me this is now the
secondary issue. The primary issue has become freedom of speech. Jury
nullification has become the vehicle to reclaim this right."—Julian
Heicklen
And the book
includes a special bonus chapter from Julian's report to the entire Tyranny
Fighters email list that few others have ever read:
Julian's
Jailhouse Journal
This is the uncut, uncensored, unedited,
deeply disturbing and bitingly witty first person account of Julian's 18-day
incarceration in New York City's notorious Riker's Island Jail complex.
Other Tyranny
Fighters where also caught up in the intransigent anti-freedom hardball tactics
of the nation's law enforcers and their stories are a part of this book as
well.
The book will be
available SOON in paperback, ePub, Kindle and iTunes formats at Amazon,
Barnes&Noble, Goodreads, Lulu.com and online booksellers worldwide.
Keep watching this site for more info:
tyrannyfighters.blogspot.com
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