| Author | : A. C. Grayling |
| File Size | : 55,9 Mb |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 19 April 2024 |
| ISBN | : UOM:39015080862603 |
| Pages | : 308 pages |
Liberty in the Age of Terror by A. C. Grayling Book PDF Summary
Our societies, says Anthony Grayling, are under attack not only from the threat of terrorism, but also from our governments' attempts to fight that threat by reducing freedom in our own societies - think the 42-day detention controversy, CCTV surveillance, increasing invasion of privacy, ID Cards, not to mention Abu Ghraib, rendition, Guantanamo As Grayling says: 'There should be a special place for political irony in the catalogues of human folly. Starting a war 'to promote freedom and democracy' could in certain though rare circumstances be a justified act; but in the case of the Second Gulf War that began in 2003, which involved reacting to criminals hiding in one country (Al Qaeda in Afghanistan or Pakistan) by invading another country (Iraq), one of the main fronts has, dismayingly, been the home front, where the War on Terror takes the form of a War on Civil Liberties in the spurious name of security.