filled with vague statutes. The result is that every American unwittingly commits “three felonies a day” (as the title of a book by civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate puts it) and is in jeopardy of imprisonment whenever it suits the government’s needs. It’s this prosecutorial weaponry that makes Big Brother all-pow

filled with vague statutes. The result is that every American unwittingly commits “three felonies a day” (as the title of a book by civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate puts it) and is in jeopardy of imprisonment whenever it suits the government’s needs. It’s this prosecutorial weaponry that makes Big Brother all-pow

Association Journal 58 (Aug. 1972): 815. 4! AsT wrote in Why Terrorism Works: In my debates with two prominent civil libertarians, Floyd Abrams and Harvey Silverglate, both have acknowledged that they would want nonlethal torture to be used if it could prevent thousands of deaths, but they did not want torture to b