Thinking about Terrorism: The Threat to Civil Liberties in Times of National EmergencyWritten by one of the top trial lawyers alive today, this is Michael Tigar's look at how government through history has responded to terrorism, with an analysis of our own government's response to the attacks of 9/11, particularly in regard to our own civil liberties. When does safety at any cost undermine the very basis for our republic? This book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the state of our civil liberties today. |
Contents
StateSponsored Terrorism and Its Perpetrators | |
B How to Judge StateSponsored TerrorWhere to Stand and What to Do | 8 |
C Judicial ProceedingsLetelierMoffttt | 22 |
D Judicial ProceedingsPinochet not Kissinger | 26 |
E Judicial Proceedingsthe French Cases | 40 |
1 Vichy FranceThe Background | 41 |
2 The Crime Against Humanity | 43 |
3 French Penal Code | 46 |
1 Terrorism in Anticolonial Struggles | 120 |
3 Ethnic and Religious Hostility Terror | 121 |
b Kenya | 122 |
c South Africa | 123 |
d Algeria | 124 |
e Peru | 126 |
D The Peoples Mojahedin of IranCase Study of a Flawed Policy | 132 |
E The Fourth Amendment Privacy and Social Danger | 144 |
4 The Barbie CaseToo Clever by Half | 47 |
5 Touviers Capture | 49 |
7 The Executions at RillieuxlaPape | 52 |
8 Maurice Papon and the Confession of Collaboration | 64 |
F Reconciliation Amnesty TruthSouth Africa Chile and Elsewhere | 69 |
G International Criminal TribunalsJurisdiction Procedure Fairness Limits | 74 |
Terrorism Liberty Security Profit | 86 |
Group and Individual TerrorismNonState Actors | 107 |
B The Colonial Roots of Terrorism and the Fallacy of NationBuilding | 111 |
C Revolutionary Violence Civil War and Terrorism | 115 |
1 Persons Houses Papers Effects | 147 |
2 The Warrant Clause | 148 |
3 Particularly Describing | 150 |
4 Executive Branch Seeks More Power | 152 |
F Judge Richard Posner Terrorism and the Constitution | 159 |
G Military Commissions Fairness and Americas Image | 184 |
H Conclusion | 187 |
INDEX | 197 |
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