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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Prologue -- CHAPTER 1: Growing Up among the Myths -- CHAPTER 2: Berkeley and Beyond -- CHAPTER 3: What Was Taught, and What Was Learned, In Law School -- CHAPTER 4: Washington-Unemployment Compensation -- CHAPTER 5: Like a Bird on a Wire -- CHAPTER 6: Civil Wrongs -- CHAPTER 7: Draft Board Days and Nights -- CHAPTER 8: Military Justice Is to Justice . . . -- CHAPTER 9: Chicago Blues, Seattle Times, Free Angela -- CHAPTER 10: Connecting Life, Law, and Social Change -- CHAPTER 11: By Any Means Necessary -- CHAPTER 12: Speech Plus -- CHAPTER 13: Death-and That's Final -- CHAPTER 14: Politics Not as Usual -- CHAPTER 15: Human and Global Rights -- CHAPTER 16: What to Do While Enjoying Medicare -- CHAPTER 17: Envoi -- Notes and Sources -- Index.

We who are engaged in the struggle for change might ask: "Through what lens of refraction is the evidence of events recalled and related?" If we are to resist the genocidal use of military force, and to oppose the environmental depredation that follows in its wake, we need to see the roots and laws of motion of colonialism and empire

Critically analyzes the US Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 & the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Attention is given to the key concepts of "enemy combatant" & "material support" for terrorism & the Acts' assault on the US Constitution. Discussion is supported by review of major legal decisions from US history. Adapted from the source document.