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The Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Fighting the Lawless World of Guantanamo Bay
by Clive Smith
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ISBN13: 9781568583747 
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At a July 17, 2003 press conference held jointly with Prime Minister Tony Blair, President George W. Bush described the prisoners held in Guantanamo: "The only thing I know for certain is that these are bad people." They are, supposedly, the worst of the worst of the world's terrorists. Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith is one of the few people in the world who has had independent access to the prisoners at Guantanamo, representing more than fifty. Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side is his remarkable account of his descent into the darkly comic world of Guantanamo, a legal black hole in which the bleakness of the surroundings are punctuated by moments of humor and absurdity. From the absence of security at the airport, to the army protecting iguanas on the roads, Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side goes beyond the headlines to tell the true story of life at Guantanamo. By bearing witness to the prisoner's stories, Smith also asks what is done to our understanding of American democracy when the rule of law is jettisoned in the name of combating terrorism.
Synopsis:
Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith's remarkable account of his descent into the darkly comic world of Guantanamo, a legal black hole in which the bleakness of the surroundings are punctuated by moments of humor and absurdity.
About the Author
After graduating from Columbia Law School in New York, Clive spent nine years as a lawyer with the Southern Center for Human Rights working on death penalty cases and other civil rights issues. In 1993, he moved to New Orleans and launched the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center, a non-profit law office specializing in the defense of death penalty cases for impoverished defendants. In 1999 Clive Stafford Smith founded Reprieve and, the following year, he was awarded an OBE for ‘humanitarian services’. He moved back to the UK in 2004 where he is focusing on achieving due process for the detainees being held by the U.S. in Guantanamo Bay, as well as continuing his work on death penalty cases. Clive was made a Rowntree Visionary and Echoing Green Fellow in 2005. A duel citizen, he lives in London.
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fjakobci, March 3, 2008 (view all comments by fjakobci)
I just recently fnished reading AMINISTRATION OF TORTURE, or should I say I plowed my way through this interesting book, subtitle A Documentary Record from Washington to AUB GHRIAB and BEYOND, by Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh. It is full of military and beaurcratic red tape and jargon and censoring that in of itself is interersting if you can put up with the hair-splitting involved and fill in the holes. The people in the book use the same kind of convoluted logic that the United States Supreme Court used to elected geroge w. bush the first time. Not much to say about his second "election." I think those who use this convoluted hair-splitting are without doubt sick people and we have had a lot of them in the government of many moons, way before this present administration and the way things look now the trend will continue way beyond the present. This looks like a book I might want to read, but if I do I will order through my local independent bookseller, not any chains stores.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781568583747
- Subtitle:
- Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Nation Books
- Subject:
- Civil Rights
- Subject:
- Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights
- Subject:
- Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights
- Subject:
- Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism
- Subject:
- Prisoners of war
- Subject:
- Habeas corpus.
- Subject:
- POL040000
- Publication Date:
- September 2007
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 307
- Dimensions:
- 9.30x6.35x1.09 in. 1.11 lbs.
