Todd Douglas News
On January 18, 2016 Todd Douglas signed a contract with ABC-CLIO Publishing of Santa Barbara, California, for a new book, entitled, The Police in a Free Society: Safeguarding Rights While Enforcing the Law, to be released this fall under the Praeger imprint. Mr. Douglas spent more than two decades as state police trooper and commander and says that he is looking forward to the project and working with the experienced team at ABC-CLIO.
On March 10, 2015, Todd Douglas appeared before an audience of students and faculty at Cornell University for a discussion of his book, A Republic, if you can keep it: a chronicle of the American counterrevolution. The event was followed by a question and answer session and a book signing with the author. Below is an except from The Cornell Review:
Cornell Republicans Speaker Todd Douglas: American Republic on ‘Edge of Abyss’
Posted on March 10, 2015 by Casey Breznick
Beginning his lecture with the line “All of us have had our birthright stolen from us,” a stern-faced Todd Douglas delved into a forty minute lecture at today’s Cornell Republicans meeting detailing what he describes as the systematic unraveling and destruction of the U.S. Constitution and American Republic. The event was titled “A Republic, If You Can Keep It,” which is the name of Douglas’s 2013 book.
Douglas, a former US Navy Intelligence Specialist attached to the Defense Intelligence Agency and a 23-year veteran police commander, spoke at length about the erosion of individual liberties and the Constitution by all three branches of government and both major political parties, especially since the dawn of the 20th century and the administration of progressive Woodrow Wilson.
“You’ve been told all your life you’re free, but you’re really not,” Douglas said. “We live under a suffocating web of rules, laws, regulations, taxes, surcharges, and fees… The notion that government knows what’s best for us and is entitled to fruits of labor has become so ingrained in us we don’t even realize our freedom is all but gone.” Full Story...
Cornell Republicans Speaker Todd Douglas: American Republic on ‘Edge of Abyss’
Posted on March 10, 2015 by Casey Breznick
Beginning his lecture with the line “All of us have had our birthright stolen from us,” a stern-faced Todd Douglas delved into a forty minute lecture at today’s Cornell Republicans meeting detailing what he describes as the systematic unraveling and destruction of the U.S. Constitution and American Republic. The event was titled “A Republic, If You Can Keep It,” which is the name of Douglas’s 2013 book.
Douglas, a former US Navy Intelligence Specialist attached to the Defense Intelligence Agency and a 23-year veteran police commander, spoke at length about the erosion of individual liberties and the Constitution by all three branches of government and both major political parties, especially since the dawn of the 20th century and the administration of progressive Woodrow Wilson.
“You’ve been told all your life you’re free, but you’re really not,” Douglas said. “We live under a suffocating web of rules, laws, regulations, taxes, surcharges, and fees… The notion that government knows what’s best for us and is entitled to fruits of labor has become so ingrained in us we don’t even realize our freedom is all but gone.” Full Story...