Enemy Aliens
Enemy Aliens
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Résumé
In Guantanamo Bay approximately 650 "enemy combatants" are being held without trial, without charges, and without access to their families or legal representation. They are as young as thirteen and as old as eighty. They have attempted suicide twenty-seven times. Since the war on terror began, over 5000 people in the U.S.
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Enemy Aliens by David Cole
When David Cole was first writing Enemy Aliens, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the anti-immigrant brand of American patriotism was at a fever pitch. Now, as the pendulum swings back, and court after court finds the Bush administration’s tactics of secrecy and assumption of guilt unconstitutional, Cole’s book stands as a prescient and critical indictment of the double standards we have applied in the war on terror. Called “brilliantly argued” by Edward Said and “the essential book in the field” by former CIA director James Woolsey, Enemy Aliens shows why it is a moral, constitutional, and practical imperative to afford every person in the United States the protections from government excesses that we expect for ourselves.
"David Cole is one of the country’s greatest voices for civil liberties today" —Anthony Lewis
"If there is a flaw in Cole’s logic, it escapes me." —John W. Dean, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Remarkable and fascinating." —The New York Review of Books
"A forceful antidote to the current round of xenophobic zeal. . . . Lucid and reasoned." —The Village Voice
"If there is a flaw in Cole’s logic, it escapes me." —John W. Dean, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Remarkable and fascinating." —The New York Review of Books
"A forceful antidote to the current round of xenophobic zeal. . . . Lucid and reasoned." —The Village Voice
David Cole is the George Mitchell Professor of Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation. He is the author of No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, the American Book Award–winning Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism, and The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable and is a co-author (with James Dempsey) of Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security and (with Jules Lobel) of Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, both published by The New Press. He lives in Washington, D.C.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9781565849389 |
| ISBN 10 | 1565849388 |
| Titre | Enemy Aliens |
| Auteur | David Cole |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | The New Press |
| Année de publication | 2005-07-11 |
| Nombre de pages | 352 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |