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Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism. By Bruce Ackerman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. 240 pp.
In the latest of a string of thoughtful and challenging public-policy proposals, Bruce Ackerman turns his attention to the dilemma of protecting civil liberties and the integrity of U.S. governance in light of the horrors of modern terrorism. Specifically, Ackerman fears normalizing states of emergency and what he sees as the preconditions for oppressive legislation and executive authority. The normalization of emergency is advanced when leading politicians conflate threats to the sovereign integrity of a nation and its continued existence with the threats to the physical well-being of the citizens. Ackerman argues persuasively that the latter form of threats does not truly jeopardize the U.S. political system. In effect, "war on terror" rhetoric is both misplaced... |
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