However, he believes deeply in the constitution, and is horrified at how constitutional rights have been eroded, particularly under Bush and the Patriot Act. He is a great explainer, always illustrating legal points with a prosaic example.

He has his own website.

You would be amazed, as an American citizen, or a tourist in America, how you have almost none of the traditional civil rights or legal safeguards left. All manner of law-enforcement officials can do whatever they want to you with nothing more than a self-written warrant.

The CIA like to joke that their assassinations are "suicides involuntarily administered," to be carried out by the Agency’s "Health Alteration Committee."

The U.S. government not only routinely practices torture, it trains torturers all over the world. The "School of the Americas" in Ft. Benning, Georgia, for instance, is devoted to the training of torturers from all over Latin America.