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With Liberty And Justice For Some
Glenn Greenwald
How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
Metropolitan Books
September 2011
On Sale: August 25, 2011
304 pages
ISBN: 0805092056
EAN: 9780805092059
Hardcover
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From "the most important voice to have entered the political
discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of
the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in America From the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great
equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of
rules for all. But over the past four decades, the principle
of equality before the law has been effectively abolished.
Instead, a two-tiered system of justice ensures that the
country's political and financial class is virtually immune
from prosecution, licensed to act without restraint, while
the politically powerless are imprisoned with greater ease
and in greater numbers than in any other country in the world. Starting with Watergate, continuing on through the
Iran-Contra scandal, and culminating with Obama's shielding
of Bush-era officials from prosecution, Glenn Greenwald lays
bare the mechanisms that have come to shield the elite from
accountability. He shows how the media, both political
parties, and the courts have abetted a process that has
produced torture, war crimes, domestic spying, and financial
fraud. Cogent, sharp, and urgent, this is a no-holds-barred
indictment of a profoundly un-American system that sanctions
immunity at the top and mercilessness for everyone else.
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