Law and Disorder July 17, 2006
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Ten Minutes To Midnight DVD or CD – The Law and Disorder panel at the Left Forum. The Law and Disorder panel was named Ten Minutes To Midnight, a reference Michael Smith explains as he parallels the current legislative and judicial direction of the US to similar police state tactics employed by Nazi Germany. Law and Disorder co-host Michael Ratner and president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, lays out a similar framework and cites recent supreme court decisions, the Patriot Act expansion and a weak kneed Congress as key stepping stones to a police state build-up.
Articles of Impeachment Against George W Bush – (The following is from the CCR website) Congress must go beyond censure and consider impeachment. Recent calls for a censure resolution show that some senators finally realize that President Bush is out of control. But a censure resolution will not: Remove a single wiretap from American phones; End the Iraq War; Halt U.S. Torture; or stop President Bush’s reckless abuse of power. The Center for Constitutional Rights new book, Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush, makes the case for impeaching President Bush for illegally spying on U.S. citizens, lying to the American people about the Iraq war, seizing undue executive power, and sending people to be tortured overseas. We need your help to grow this movement.
The Emerging Police State – Includes transcripts of secretly recorded speeches from Kunstler’s FBI file. The defiance, anger, passion and optimism of America’s most celebrated and most detested radical lawyer William Kunstler ring throughout this selection of his unpublished speeches.
Kunstler’s outspoken opposition to war, racism and political repression resulted in an extensive FBI file, which included secretly recorded transcripts of many of his public speeches.
The introduction by Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, highlights the fact that Kunstler’s warning about the encroaching police state is even more prescient today.
“William Kunstler refused to remain silent in the face of Chronic and systematic injustice.”
- – - - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A warrior whose weapons were words” – - – - Mumia Abu Jamal
“The Emerging Police State contains the distilled wisdom of the most effective and eloquent civil liberties lawyer of our times.” – - – - Holly Maguigan, Co-President of the Society of American Law Teachers
