'Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism' by David Cole

Oct. 18, 2003

Type: discussion

Anthony Lewis reviews David Cole's important book 'Enemy Aliens: Double
Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism' at
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16673

The review is rather gripping reading.

Read this important review to see not only how 'aliens' are being treated in
the USA but how citizens of the USA are being treated by their own
government. Here are the last two paragraphs of Lewis's review:

"Commitment to law has been the great secret of America's rise to wealth and
power, and a main reason for the world's admiration of our system. Law binds
us all, great and small: so we believed. The Bush administration's
abandonment of legal norms