Our Nation Unhinged (eBook)

The Human Consequences of the War on Terror

Peter Jan Honigsberg (Autor)

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2009
334 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-94312-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Jose Padilla short-shackled and wearing blackened goggles and earmuffs to block out all light and sound on his way to the dentist. Fifteen-year-old Omar Khadr crying out to an American soldier, "Kill me!" Hunger strikers at Guantánamo being restrained and force-fed through tubes up their nostrils. John Walker Lindh lying naked and blindfolded in a metal container, bound by his hands and feet, in the freezing Afghan winter night. This is the story of the Bush administration's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001—and of how we have been led down a path of executive abuses, human tragedies, abandonment of the Constitution, and the erosion of due process and liberty. In this vitally important book, Peter Jan Honigsberg chronicles the black hole of the American judicial system from 2001 to the present, providing an incisive analysis of exactly what we have lost over the past seven years and where we are now headed.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.5.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 2001 • 21st Century • Afghanistan • America • american judicial system • American policy • American soldiers • Bush Administration • criminal investigation • Dark • discussion books • engaging • foreign policy • Guantanamo • human rights abuses • hunger strikers • Imprisonment • injustices • intense • Litigation • Men at war • national security • Nonfiction • Political • September 11 • terrorism • terrorist imprisonment • tragedies • Trial • US Constitution • warfare • War on Terror
• ISBN-10: 0-520-94312-0 / 0520943120
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-94312-4 / 9780520943124