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The war on the Bill of Rights and the gathering resistance / Nat Hentoff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Seven Stories, 2004Edition: New editionDescription: 204 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1583226583
  • 9781583226582
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.490973 22
LOC classification:
  • JC599.U45 H46 2004
Contents:
1. "Why Should We Care? It's Only the Constitution" -- 2. How We Began to Lose Our Liberties -- 3. A Society Under Surveillance -- 4. J. Edgar Hoover Lives! -- 5. The FBI Eyeing What You Read -- 6. Burglars with Badges -- 7. The FBI's Magic Lantern -- 8. Computers Will Say Who We Are -- 9. The Patriot Enforcers -- 10. A Citizen Shorn of All Rights -- 11. Liberty's Court of Last Resort -- 12. Ashcroft's Detention Camp -- 13. The American Way of Torture -- 14. Our Designated Killers -- 15. Ashcroft's Master Plan to Spy on Us -- 16. The Apparent Death of Operation TIPS -- 17. Ashcroft Out of Control -- 18. Red Alert for the Bill of Rights -- 19. The Sons and Daughters of Liberty and Their Opponents -- 20. Grassroots of the Constitution -- 21. The Unilateral President -- 22. Spinning the Military Tribunal -- 23. Vanishing Liberties -- 24. Bush-Ashcroft vs. Homeland Security -- 25. Conservatives Rise for the Bill of Rights! -- 26. Protecting John Ashcroft from Congress-and Us -- 27. Will American Liberty Survive the War on Terrorism? -- 28. Dick Armey's Farewell Address -- 29. Knowing Enough of Our History to Save Our Future -- 30. A Secret Meeting in 1773 on Which "The Political Salvation of America Depends" -- 31. The Chilling Effect on Our Freedoms -- 32. In the Enduring Spirit of Sam Adams -- 33. Justice Denied at Its Source -- 34. Ashcroft in Conference -- 35. The Once and Former Rule of Law -- 36. J. Edgar Hoover Back at the "New" FBI -- 37. Secret Subpoenas -- 38. Bob Barr for the Defense -- 39. The Government's All-Knowing Black Box -- 40. Improving the Patriot Act -- 41. The Patriot Act in Trouble -- 42. Patriot Act Besieged -- 43. Declarations of Independence -- 44. Fred Korematsu v. George W. Bush -- 45. The Rumsfeld-Bush Legal Black Hole -- 46. Is Bush the Law? -- 47. Hoaxing the Supreme Court -- 48. Bush Put in His Place -- 49. Torture Trail -- 50. What Did Bush Know? -- 51. CIA's Disappearing Prisoners -- 52. The Ghost Prisoners -- 53. "Just Give Me Back My Son" -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author -- Other Books by Nat Hentoff.
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Includes index.

Previous ed.: 2003.

1. "Why Should We Care? It's Only the Constitution" -- 2. How We Began to Lose Our Liberties -- 3. A Society Under Surveillance -- 4. J. Edgar Hoover Lives! -- 5. The FBI Eyeing What You Read -- 6. Burglars with Badges -- 7. The FBI's Magic Lantern -- 8. Computers Will Say Who We Are -- 9. The Patriot Enforcers -- 10. A Citizen Shorn of All Rights -- 11. Liberty's Court of Last Resort -- 12. Ashcroft's Detention Camp -- 13. The American Way of Torture -- 14. Our Designated Killers -- 15. Ashcroft's Master Plan to Spy on Us -- 16. The Apparent Death of Operation TIPS -- 17. Ashcroft Out of Control -- 18. Red Alert for the Bill of Rights -- 19. The Sons and Daughters of Liberty and Their Opponents -- 20. Grassroots of the Constitution -- 21. The Unilateral President -- 22. Spinning the Military Tribunal -- 23. Vanishing Liberties -- 24. Bush-Ashcroft vs. Homeland Security -- 25. Conservatives Rise for the Bill of Rights! -- 26. Protecting John Ashcroft from Congress-and Us -- 27. Will American Liberty Survive the War on Terrorism? -- 28. Dick Armey's Farewell Address -- 29. Knowing Enough of Our History to Save Our Future -- 30. A Secret Meeting in 1773 on Which "The Political Salvation of America Depends" -- 31. The Chilling Effect on Our Freedoms -- 32. In the Enduring Spirit of Sam Adams -- 33. Justice Denied at Its Source -- 34. Ashcroft in Conference -- 35. The Once and Former Rule of Law -- 36. J. Edgar Hoover Back at the "New" FBI -- 37. Secret Subpoenas -- 38. Bob Barr for the Defense -- 39. The Government's All-Knowing Black Box -- 40. Improving the Patriot Act -- 41. The Patriot Act in Trouble -- 42. Patriot Act Besieged -- 43. Declarations of Independence -- 44. Fred Korematsu v. George W. Bush -- 45. The Rumsfeld-Bush Legal Black Hole -- 46. Is Bush the Law? -- 47. Hoaxing the Supreme Court -- 48. Bush Put in His Place -- 49. Torture Trail -- 50. What Did Bush Know? -- 51. CIA's Disappearing Prisoners -- 52. The Ghost Prisoners -- 53. "Just Give Me Back My Son" -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author -- Other Books by Nat Hentoff.

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