Freedom Book of the Month for August, 1999:
Don't Shoot the Bastards (Yet): 101 More Ways to Salvage Freedom
by Claire Wolfe
Loompanics Unlimited, 249 pp., softcover, $15.95

As the title indicates, Claire Wolfe hasn't (yet) gone over to the "nuke'em til they glow, then shoot'em in the dark" crowd. If ever there was a president of the Monkey Wrench Gang, though, she'd be a cinch for election on the first ballot. As it is, she'll just have to settle for First Lady of Liberty.

This book is full of constructive suggestions on how to confuse, torment, and embarrass the revenuers and their ilk:

• How to stay out of those omnipresent government databases (or, if you end up in them anyway, how to obscure what information about you is factual and what is fictional).
• How to comply with stupid laws—and make the bureaucrats wish that you hadn't.
• How to get around the schemes of the gun grabbers, the tax collectors, the bank regulators and other bottom feeders at the public trough.

The entire book is a paean to doing the right thing—and getting away with it.

If it is somewhat general, it makes up for it by pointing the reader to numerous information sources on the topics it addresses. Wolfe covers everything from Web sites full of encryption and steganography software to where to find a good shooting instructor.

The best thing about this book, though, is Claire Wolfe's inimitable style. Readers of her column in WorldNetDaily won't be disappointed, and those unfamiliar with her work won't find a better introduction. Don't Shoot the Bastards (Yet) is Wolfe at her best: at turns optimistic and pessimistic, but always in good humor and rare form.

Additional Links:

• Review and ordering information from Laissez Faire Books
• Claire Wolfe's "101 Things To Do 'Til the Revolution"
• Claire Wolfe's "I Am Not A Number"
• Wolfe's Lodge (Claire Wolfe's Home Page)
• FreeLife: Claire Wolfe's WorldNetDaily Column

June 2000: Law's Order by David Friedman

May 2000: Forge of the Elders by L. Neil Smith

April 2000: Reciprocia by Richard G. Rieben

March 2000: The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand

February 2000: Addiction is a Choice by Jeffrey A. Schaler

January 2000: Revolutionary Language by David C. Calderwood

Special December 1999 Feature: The Freedom Book of the Year: Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998 by Vin Suprynowicz

November 1999: Conquests and Cultures by Thomas Sowell

October 1999: A Way To Be Free by Robert LeFevre, edited by Wendy McElroy

September 1999: Assassins (Left Behind) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

August 1999: Don't Shoot the Bastards (Yet): 101 More Ways to Salvage Freedom by Claire Wolfe

July 1999: The Mitzvah by L. Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman

June 1999: The Incredible Bread Machine by R.W. Grant

May 1999: Send in the Waco Killers by Vin Suprynowicz

April 1999: It Still Begins with Ayn Rand by Jerome Tuccille

March 1999: The Dictionary of Free-Market Economics by Fred Foldvary

February 1999: Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand edited by Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra