From Freedom to Slavery (subtitled: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America) was a scary book (and we don’t spook easy). After reading this thin volume, many people would think that Mister Spence was a delusional paranoiac. What scares the shit out of us is that we know that is not the case. Mister Spence may appear a tad eccentric (don’t we all?), but he is widely considered to be one of the most respected trial attorneys in the country, as well as a noted author and gifted visionary. His perceptions may be a bit different from our own, but everything he says is true! Mister Spence has fought multi-billion dollar corporations, as well as the Federal Government, in the courts and won. Mister Spence is no speculating "conspiracy theorist"— he has seen the enemy up close and lived to tell about it. He is a man worthy of our respect.

This book may shock and disturb you, and we believe that was the author’s intent. It is easier to read than Lasn’s Culture Jam, and a lot more relevant. The enemy won’t be satisfied simply picking your pockets — it wants to eat you! FUCK!!! After reading this book you might feel compelled to buy a gas mask and stock up on armor piercers! From Freedom to Slavery is as scary as some of Stephen King’s greatest works, and is guaranteed to make you angry — just don’t do anything stupid after reading it, like joining an armed militia group (okay, now that we’ve established that the Federal Government is potentially dangerous to our civil rights, let’s go out and identify with some clowns who delight in antagonizing it — not very fucking bright).

Gerry Spence is a popular author, and you should be able to find this fine book in your local library, although after reading it you’ll probably want one of your very own. A few brief excerpts from this notable text follow:

"Corporate America determines what electronic primary experiences our children shall have, where, on any given evening, we shall travel and what we shall see, and from what perspective. It decides what news we shall hear, what blood on what streets, what deaths, what crimes, what scandals. It is frightening to realize that corporations with mind-altering electronics possess the power to control 250 million mostly unsuspecting subjects." (p. 146)

"The immensely rich and powerful corporations of this country can buy access to the public mind, can form public taste, and can create public opinion. These corporations can invade our minds and change our likes or dislikes, our ideas, our values, and even our personalities." (p. 147)

"Since corporations have no souls and no commitment to the human race, corporations will always commit wrongs in their unquenchable quest for profit. The corporate structure may be a necessary evil to gather the capital required to carry on business, but the corporate structure, itself, is inherently evil. It is evil in the same way that a person without a conscience is evil. Psychologists call such persons "sociopaths."" (p. 71)

"These bureaucracies are symbiotic and are so similarly structured that if one were to petition the board of directors of General Motors and the governing authority of the Department of transportation, the responses would be disturbingly similar. What is lacking is the sense that anyone or anything alive — with intelligence — abides within, that there are any living responses buried in any of the vast machinery. The decisions made by the regime could as well have been made by the attendant at the corner Exxon gas station as by the chief executive officer of the same corporation, for the decisions are made by "the book", and the book, of course, is dead. But if "the book" is followed, no-one can criticize the decision maker, who in the end makes no decisions at all. Machinery, of course, does not care. Machinery does not think. It does not create. Like an enormous malignant glacier, the regime blankets the earth, consumes the landscape, and leaves its ugly, fatal debris as evidence of its irresistible force." (p. 34)

"Today we live in a world where all we encounter are potential predators, not members of our flock. Our leaders are liars and cheats; our representatives, bought and sold; our bankers, crooks; our clergy, money-hungry charlatans; our businessmen, frauds; our screen heroes, deviates and dopeheads; our neighbors, robbers and murderers. Once tribal animals, we have lost the security of the tribe. We no longer enjoy the comfort of our families, who have been scattered across the land in search of employment. Paranoid, terrorized, and alone, we scurry and hide in the concrete jungles while the King further convinces us with the King’s television voice that our true enemies are ourselves." (p. 65)

"All are eventually punished for expressing their views. They may be punished by exclusion or banishment. Some will lose their jobs. Some will lose financial support. Some will be silenced by prosecutions. Some will be infiltrated by government agents and snitches. Some will be set up and entrapped. Some will be libeled. Some will be locked up in penitentiaries. Some will be shot. But all will be hurt, physically, emotionally, or financially, for saying what they believe." (p. 148)

"A new tyranny has cast its cold and ugly shadow over the nation, a nation where the rights of the people, criminals and citizens alike exist mostly in myth, where the police have become the handmaidens of power, where trials have become mere window dressing and mockeries of justice, and where corporations are left free to pillage and ravage the people with utter impunity." (p. 77)