The Emerging Police State: Resisting Illegitimate Authority

About this book

The defiance anger passion and optimism of Americas "most celebrated and most detested" radical lawyer William Kunstler ring throughout this selection of his unpublished speeches. The consequence of Kunstlers outspoken opposition to war racism and political repression was an extensive FBI file which included secretly recorded transcripts of many of his public speeches some of which are published here. The introduction by Michael Ratner President of the New York Center for Constitutional Rights and attorney for the Camp X-Ray prisoners from Afghanistan points out Kunstlers words are even more prescient today than in his time.