false 2309236 1 <b>&#8220;OUR GOVERNMENT CAN MAKE YOU DISAPPEAR.&#8221; </b><br><br>Those were words Steven T. Wax never imagined he would hear himself say. In his thirty-four years as a lawyer, Wax didn&#8217;t have to warn a client that he or she might be taken away to a military brig, or worse, a &#8220;black site,&#8221; one of our country&#8217;s dreaded secret prisons. So how had we come to this? The disappearance of people happens in places ruled by tyrants, military juntas, fascist strongmen&#8211;governments with such contempt for the rule of law that they strip their citizens of all rights. But in America?<br><br>Under the Bush administration, not only have the civil rights of foreigners been in jeopardy, but also those of U.S. citizens. In <i>Kafka Comes to America</i>, Wax interweaves the stories of two men he represented who were caught up in our government&#8217;s post-9/11 counterterrorism measures. Brandon Mayfield, an American-born, small-town lawyer and family man, was arrested as a terrorist suspect in the Madrid train station bombings after a fingerprint was mistakenly traced back to him by the FBI. Adel Hamad, a Sudanese hospital administrator working in Pakistan, was taken from his apartment and flown in chains to the United States military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for no substantiated reason. <i>Kafka Comes</i> <i>to America </i>reveals where and how our civil liberties have been eroded in favor of a false security, and how each of us can make a difference. If these events could happen to Brandon Mayfield and Adel Hamad, they could happen to anyone. They could happen to you. 2315652 3 6 2008 Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror - A Public Defender's Inside Account total:29|5:7|4:16|3:6|2:0|1:0| 29 117 65 15 4 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 07:07:48 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 08:59:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 13:09:15 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 05:37:07 -0700 2009 Kafka Comes to America is part memoir, part criticism of the US government and it's practices and part exploration of freedom. It's a brilliant and exceptional book. While many non-fiction books can't get that page-turner as...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 13 15:11:56 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 15:11:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 21:04:22 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 21:32:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Dec 20 14:23:44 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 14:24:01 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Jul 08 08:43:09 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 21 09:50:10 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 08 08:43:09 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 26 06:14:09 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 08:40:19 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 06:14:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 19:49:18 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 18:19:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 10:03:43 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 03:57:25 -0700 2008
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