Not a Suicide Pact
Posted by admin on Jan 5, 2007
Richard A. Posner. Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. KF4749 .P67 2006
From the publisher: Eavesdropping on the phone calls of U.S. citizens; demands by the FBI for records of library borrowings; establishment of military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, including U.S. citizens – many of the measures taken by the Bush administration since 9/11 have sparked heated protests. In Not a Suicide Pact, Judge Richard A. Posner offers a cogent response to these protests, arguing that personal liberty must be balanced with public safety in the face of grave national danger.