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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful Hardcover – October 25, 2011

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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Metropolitan Books; First Edition, First Printing edition (October 25, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0805092056
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805092059
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
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4.0 out of 5 starsGlenn Addresses an Important Issue
By Keith Boyea on November 7, 2011
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I am a long time reader of Glenn's at his blog on salon.com. He's written a book that basically tracks his last few years of blogging, but in a longer format. Starting with Ford's pardon of Nixon, Glenn documents the various ways that political and financial elites have developed a two-tiered justice system with the elites generally immune to the laws and the rest of us harshly punished for even the most minor crime.

The best section, for me at least, was the final chapter on the second and third tiers of the justice system. America's prison state is appalling, and most of this section's material was brand new to me.

If I had one criticism it would be that if you've followed his blog as closely as I have, almost none of this--the last chapter partially excepted--is going to be new to you. But Glenn has published many thousands of words over the past three or four years, if you haven't read them all you'll find Glenn's aggressive style refreshing. He pulls no punches, names names, and doesn't necessarily play nice with the Beltway establishment. But that's what makes his voice so unique and needed--even if you disagree, you won't say that Glenn is pandering to anyone.
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5.0 out of 5 starsEveryone in the United States should read this book
By Christopher Hallquist on November 22, 2011
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Glenn Greenwald's With Liberty and Justice for Some is an extremely important book. I don't exaggerate when I say it's a book everyone in the United States should read, something I don't normally say about even my favorite books.

Greenwald makes the case in the United States today, rule of law is disappearing. Instead, we have what he calls "The Principle of Elite Immunity,"-the idea that political and business elites are never to be punished for their crimes, except perhaps if their crimes harm other elites. Greenwald blames the current mindset on Ford for pardoning Nixon and justifying the pardon on the grounds that prosecuting Nixon would be too divisive.

Now, personally, I don't think the pardon of Nixon would have been such a bad thing if it had been a one-time thing and the country had gotten back on course afterwards. However, Greenwald convincingly argues that the Nixon pardon was the beginning of a pattern of bad excuses for forgiving any and all high-level wrong doing in this country. Thus, we get pardons for Iran-Contra criminals, Bill Clinton suppressing inquiry into Regan and Bush's illegally providing of weapons to Iraq in spite of having promised investigations, and Obama's failure to prosecute the crimes of the Bush administration.

It's important to stress that the excuses really are ridiculous-read the book for the full recitation, but here's one especially bad example, both in terms of the flimsiness of the rationale and the fact that it was given by a member of our government's alleged watchdog, the media.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsSome useful observations in the service of a fantastic argument.
By John Winters on October 29, 2011
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When I say fantastic, I mean of or relating to fantasy. And that fantasy is the idea that the "law" or the "state" ever equally represented people, that it was ever not a tool ultimately under the control of the economically powerful, that it ever functioned to provide liberty and justice for ALL.

As he does on his blog, Glenn fills his book with example after example of the legal double standards in the United States. It is in pointing out these double standards that he's at his most impassioned and readable. But just as his strengths carry over from his blog to the book, so do his weaknesses. The biggest one is that Glenn never really gets beyond the listing of grievances to offer a compelling explanation of why injustice has grown in recent decades (although, to Glenn's credit, he notes it has coincided with a massively growing economic gap). In other words, Glenn describes well, but explains poorly.

His attempt to provide an over arching framework is to cite the pardon of Nixon as a watershed moment, as if the pardon was a consciousness raising moment for political elites who were then emboldened to break the law with impunity. The problem with this historical narrative isn't that Nixon's pardon wasn't exceptional. It was indeed exceptional, but for a completely different reason. It symbolized a brief moment in U.S. history where grassroots pressure resulted in the exposure of crimes at the highest level of government. It was the exposure of the crimes, crimes which LBJ, JFK, and so many other previous presidents (of both parties) engaged in, that was remarkable. Not the fact that political leaders were getting away with the crimes, not the fact that political leaders began to expect to get away with their misdeeds.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsJustice for Just Us
By Dienne TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on November 10, 2011
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Glenn Greenwald's subtitle, "How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful", is an apt summation of the thesis of his book. He argues that, despite the intent of the Founders (admittedly not always applied in reality) that no one should be either above or below the law, American jurisprudence as it now de facto exists, creates two tiers of "justice": one level for the elite (government and business leaders and other rich and powerful individuals) which allows virtual immunity from all prosecution or consequences from nearly unlimited law-breaking, and another level for the rest of us.

For Greenwald, the Watergate scandal and President Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon represented a fundamental break in American history. He doesn't argue that government and business elites never broke the law before that or even that they never got away with it, but in theory at least, the law was supposed to apply equally to everyone. Ford's pardon set the precedent for, and provided the justification of, immunity for the highest officials and defended such immunity as a good thing. The pardon raised the idea that reconciliation and prevention of future problems outweigh and overshadow punishment for past misbehavior (as if the former can happen without the latter), the idea that prosecution is too "messy" and divisive for the country, and the idea that certain positions are just too important to undermine for our national unity and security.

From that foundation, Greenwald touches briefly on the Iran-Contra scandal and the pardons and immunity granted to high level actors (which such protections, conveniently enough, protected those even higher on the food chain). But mostly Greenwald focuses his attention on the events of the past ten years.Read more ›
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