America's Unpatriotic Acts: The Federal Government's Violation Of Constitutional And Civil Rights (Paperback)

by Walter M. Brasch (Author) "In February 1993, a car packed with more than a thousand pounds of explosives blew up in a garage beneath the World Trade Center..." (more)
Key Phrases: passenger data, expedited processing, prisoner abuse, Department of Justice, United States, First Amendment (more...)

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« 'America's Unpatriotic Acts' is a powerful, persuasive, and expertly documented indictment against the tactics of fear that resulted in the Patriot Act and the Bush administration's use of it to skirt the Bill of Rights and promote a political agenda. Walter Brash comprehensively reports the story with page-turning suspense.

Product Description
Within six weeks of 9/11, in a nation gripped by fear and hatred, Congress overwhelmingly approved the USA PATRIOT Act, drafted in secret by the Department of Justice. There was almost no debate, and few in Congress were given more than a few hours to read the 342-page document. In America's Unpatriotic Acts, award-winning journalist and university professor Walter M. Brasch looks not just at the effects of the PATRIOT Act upon the nation, but also at the innumerable civil rights violations conducted in the United States, as well as by the United States in foreign countries during the three years following 9/11.

Product Details

• Paperback: 231 pages
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing (January 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0820476080
• ISBN-13: 978-0820476087
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #465,244 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And We Trust Them Why?, March 20, 2007

By	Book & Music Lover (Louisville, Kentucky USA) - See all my reviews

Let me relate, we have a passive media, that would really have something to report if they would really report real news. The abuses of our freedoms conducted by this government post 9/11, hardly registered a blimp on the radar screens of our media outlets. But let Russell Crow blow his nose, and we get the blow by blow, how much and what color.

Our Constitution, is slowly but surely being destroyed, and most of America knows nothing about it. Our so called free press is missing in action. But we know what color Brad Pitt's undies are.

This author is sending up flares, left and right, and we are too star struck to realize what is happening. Our Civil Rights are being flushed, and we hardly notice. Human Rights are being trampled, and I will bet the government with all of its snoping knows whether or not you are even wearing underwear. All of this and where is the common everyday citizen, he/she is too busy to care. Somewhat like the people in pre-World War II Germany. The people just looked the other way, and Hitler became the world's worst mass murderer in the history of this world. Look out America.

Here is a book that is sounding the alarm and we do not notice. We send our troops into a war zone and "Well it is not my Son or Daughter". Every one in the Iraqi war is someone's mother, father, sister, or brother. Someone's friend, or fellow citizen. The author here is trying to get the American people to wake up. We have a Tyrant in the White House, and he is being so evasive. Our lesgistative branch, and even the judical branch are all in this together. Notice no restraints, no real attempts to put a stop to the madness. And legislators who rarely read what they vote for.

Read how this government is begining to look like every other dictatorship in the history of the world. Deportations, secret arrests, wiretaps, torture, it is all here, and we appear to be afraid to look at ourselves in the mirror. How we continue to want to call our nation free. How if you criticize what is going on, on Capitol Hill, provided you know in the first place, you are labelled as "UNPATRIOTIC".

Wake up America, pick up this book and read it, and pass it on.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A chilling portrayal of the increased trampling of civil rights in America today, September 8, 2005

By	Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

America's Unpatriotic Acts: The Federal Government's Violation Of Constitutional And Civil Rights is a stinging indictment of America's abusive acts, particularly against its own residents and citizens, in the twenty-first century. Chapters address how post-9/11 hysteria prompted the passing of vague legislation that attacked civil liberties; the secret rounding up, jailing, and deportation of American residents who had committed no crime whatsoever due, largely due to ethnicity; the abominations perpetrated at Guantanamo Bay; how restricting protestors of any kind to "free-speech zones" around the president and government officials does not protect them (anyone meaning harm simply has to avoid carrying a protest sign) but creates the media illusion that their policies are supported without dissent; and more. A chilling portrayal of the increased trampling of civil rights in America today.