Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil by James Bovard
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- Pub. Date: September 2003
- 448pp
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- Pub. Date: September 2003
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Format: Hardcover, 448pp
- ISBN-13: 9781403963680
- ISBN: 1403963681
- Edition Description: REV
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"The war on terrorism is the first political growth industry of the new Millennium." So begins Jim Bovard's newest and, in some ways, most provocative book as he casts yet another jaundiced eye on Washington and the motives behind protecting "the homeland" and prosecuting a wildly unpopular war with Iraq. For James Bovard, as always, it all comes down to a trampling of personal liberty and an end to privacy as we know it. From airport security follies that protect no one to increased surveillance of individuals and skyrocketing numbers of detainees, the war on terrorism is taking a toll on individual liberty and no one tells the whole grisly story better than Bovard.
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Journalist Bovard, who has written for the Wall Street Journal and the American Spectator, among others, looks at the post-September 11 policies and actions of the government and finds them sorely lacking. (He also has a lot to say about how the government let the terrorist attacks happen in the first place.) Instead of fighting the terrorist menace, he argues, the Bush administration's cosmetic gestures reward incompetence and establish dangerous legal precedents. While dealing with civil rights issues (the Patriot Act "treats every citizen like a suspected terrorist"), the book casts a wider net, including the intertwining of the wars on drugs and terrorism and the continued bungling of flight security (additional guards at airports "did little more than take up space and consume oxygen"). Meticulously documented from contemporary news accounts, this rant against Bush's "aura of righteousness" may well leave readers as angry as its author. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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James Bovard has written for The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, the American Spectator, The New York Times, Reader's Digest, The New Republic, The Washington Post and Newsweek. He is one of Washington's most controversial journalists.
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Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evilby Anonymous
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July 24, 2008: This is an incredible piece of literature for anyone interested in understanding the current unique situation U.S.A. finds itself in, its fight against terrorism. The primordial problem stems on semantics with the word terrorism. When U.S.A. is supplying financial or military support to governments committing atrocities against their people it is not considered terrorism. When these sectors of individuals respond with revenge against their government and its supporters for encouraging these attacks and they get support from other nations then we encounter the real danger. They see themselves with the right to attack not only military but civilian individuals to get their point across. Our future position should be based on finding ways to minimize the current Islamic teachings that promote hate against everything that is or represents the U.S.A. It has been proved again and again that supporting some of the Middle East groups or governments at one time, protecting our interests, can hurt us later on as our interests and theirs do shift in different directions.
Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evilby Anonymous
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February 19, 2004: James Bovard delivers a clear and concise story of the continued destruction of liberty and constitutional rights by the Government of the United States. It is a shameful picture of the deceit and lies used to justify continued government intrusion and confiscation of life, liberty and property. A book that is difficult to read for long because of the shame it reflects upon our nation. Time and time again it portrays the near dictatorial actions of the Executive branch and the failure of Congress, the Judiciary, and the People to raise their voices and demand adherence to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It leaves one feeling that we are quickly becoming one of the hapless creatures in the Matrix -- simply here to provide the energy necessary to feed and serve an all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-controlling government.
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