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^ Read ! Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror - A Public Defender's Inside Account by Steven T. Wax ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror - A Public Defender's Inside Account "the work of the Federal Defender at its finest" according to A Morgan. Others here are saying it well enough, but I must add a quote from the book that for me best distills its moral:"If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."--Judge Learned Hand. "Kafka Comes to America" according to J. Inda. It's good to know that there are honorable people who will stand up to an out of control administration.. Thrilling and chilling inside view of our los
| Title | : | Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror - A Public Defender's Inside Account |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.87 (552 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590512952 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 380 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-28 |
| Language | : | English |
Wax offers personal insight and professional outrage; his is a powerful voice that deserves to reach all Americans. With considerable finesse, the author narrates these two gripping stories in alternating chapters through each stage of his clients' cases. The second story revolves around Adel Hamad, a Sudanese-born hospital administrator arrested in Pakistan while doing refugee relief work. . From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. All rights reserved. Wax follows the stories of two men he represented, both victims of post-9/11 counterterrorism measures. Imprisoned for six months in a fetid hell for alleged connections with al-Qaeda, Hamad was hooded and shackled and transferred to Guantánamo Bay, where he has languished for the past four years. Federal public defender Wax masterfully delivers a harrowing story of the erosion of civil liberties after the September 11 t
"the work of the Federal Defender at its finest" according to A Morgan. Others here are saying it well enough, but I must add a quote from the book that for me best distills its moral:"If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."--Judge Learned Hand. "Kafka Comes to America" according to J. Inda. It's good to know that there are honorable people who will stand up to an out of control administration.. Thrilling and chilling inside view of our lost rights D. Cannard This past week I lost several hours of sleep as I devoured Steven Wax's well written book that reads like a crime thriller and tells the sadly true stories of two innocent men caught up in a tangle of legal roadblocks and deceit as the Bush administration has abused its power and taken away the rights of Americans and foreigners alike in its overzealous "war on terror". I had expect
In his twenty-nine years as a public defender, Wax had never had to warn a client that he or she might be taken away to a military brig, or worse, a “black site,” one of our country’s dreaded secret prisons. It could happen to you.. But in America? Under the current Bush administration, not only are the civil rights of foreigners in jeopardy, but those of U.S. If these events could happen to Brandon Mayfield and Adel Hamad, they can happen to anyone. Kafka Comes to America reveals where and how our civil liberties have been eroded for a false security, and how each of us can make a difference. citizens. It could happen to us. How had our country come to this? The disappearance of people happens in places ruled by tyrants, military juntas, fascist strongmen—governments with such contempt for the rule of law that they strip their citizens of all rights. Wax interweaves the stories of two men that he and his team represented: Brandon Mayfield, an American-born small town lawyer and family man, arrested as a suspected terrorist in the Madrid train station bombings after a fingerprint was incorrectly traced back to him by the FBI; and Adel Hamad, a Sudanese hospital administrator taken from his apartment to a Pakistani prison and then flown in chains to th
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