Steven Wax | Kafka, Justice & Terror

June 6, 2008

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Through the gripping inside-stories of two of the most highly publicized terrorism cases of the 21st century, KAFKA COMES TO AMERICA: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE IN THE WAR ON TERROR (Other Press; June 3, 2008) by Steven Wax shines a spotlight on one of the most critical issues faced by Americans today. This is the saga of one public defender’s struggle to rescue two innocent men from the often absurd practices of our judicial system – a system now tainted by the loss of our civil liberties in the name of the war on terror. It presents the well-known true story of Brandon Mayfield, an American-born lawyer and family man living in Oregon, who was mistakenly arrested as a suspected terrorist in the Madrid bombings because of an incorrectly identified fingerprint. It also describes the lesser-known story of Adel Hamad, a Sudanese Hospital administrator, who was taken from his apartment in Pakistan and imprisoned in Guantanamo as part of an anti-Arab sweep intended to satisfy the American government’s new security initiatives. Together, these stories present a clear and immediate picture that everyone’s rights are in jeopardy in the war on terror. A patriotic American and strong believer in our judicial system, Wax has served twenty-five years as a federal public defender. As a result, he is well positioned to present a sharp picture of both how we’ve come to lose our civil liberties and how we must all fight for our constitutional rights. http://www.otherpress.com/bookpage.php?bkID=540

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