Excerpt from You Can't Do That: A Survey of the Forces Attempting, in the Name of Patriotism, to Make a Desert of the Bill of Rights The purpose of this book is to tell, within technical and personal limitations, what is happening to our inherited liberties, and to survey the forces which, in the name of patriotism, are making a desert of the Bill of Rights. And since similar forces In many lands have invariably developed within a certain pattern, I have attempted, after examining the economic, patriotic, financial, and other motives of American teac tion, to dtaw'a parallel with the ultimate form, Fascism. This book deals almost wholly with the present. Civil rights, freedom, liberties, the precious blessings which Jefferson believed no other people on earth enjoy, have never been enjoyed by all the people of the United States and for almost a century by none of a whole stratum of the population. During the greater part of the first century of American industrial ism the right of labor to voice its grievances, the right to unionize, to meet freely, were looked upon as economic treason. The right to strike for a long time was considered a criminal action and many employers would like to see it SO today. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.