TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution is a book by Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson , known to friends as "Bob", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic...

 published in 2002. TSOG stands for 'Tsarist Occupational Government,' stemming from Wilson’s belief that there were strong parallels with the oppressive Tsarist government of pre-revolutionary Russia

Russia

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 and the United States

United States

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 government under George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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. It focuses on issues such as civil liberties

Civil liberties

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, the influence of faith-based organisations on the government and the war on drugs

War on Drugs

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