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"From "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in AmericaFrom the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over the past four decades, the principle of equality before the law has been effectively abolished. Instead, a two-tiered system of justice ensures that the country's political and financial class is virtually immune from prosecution, licensed to act without restraint, while the politically powerless are imprisoned with greater ease and in greater numbers than in any other country in the world. Starting with Watergate, continuing on through the Iran-Contra scandal, and culminating with the crimes of the Bush era, Glenn Greenwald lays bare the mechanisms that have come to shield the elite from accountability. He shows how the media, both political parties, and the courts have abetted a process that has produced torture, war crimes, domestic spying, and financial fraud. Cogent, sharp, and urgent, this is a no-holds-barred indictment of a profoundly un-American system that sanctions immunity at the top and mercilessness for everyone else"--
"A narrative examining how elites have been able to skirt the system with impunity"--
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Impunity, Sociological jurisprudence, Equality before the law, Law, Administration of Criminal justice, Discrimination in criminal justice administration, Privileges and immunities, Law and ethics, Administration of justice, Discrimination in administration of criminal justice, Political aspects, Law, political aspects, Law, united states, Justice, administration of, Administration of JusticePlaces
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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
Jul 03, 2012, Picador
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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
2011, Holt & Company, Henry
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With liberty and justice for some: how the law is used to destroy equality and protect the powerful
2011, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co.
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