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Pocket-size text argues that in balancing liberty and security we have consistently relied on a double standard; imposing measures on foreigners that we would not tolerate if they were applied more broadly to us all. DLC: Aliens--United States.
New Press
July 2005
316 pages
ISBN: 1565849388
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A revised edition of the award-winning civil liberties scholar's condemnation of the USA PATRIOT Act. When David Cole was first writing Enemy Aliens, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the anti-immigrant brand of American patriotism was at 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.
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