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Bob Aldridge s America in Peril is a wake-up call for Americans. Several such wake-up calls have been published recently, but this book is different. Aldridge not only points out that many developments since 9/11 have moved us toward fascism; he also discusses in detail these post-9/11 developments such as secret detentions, military commissions, extraordinary renditions, torture, the loss of habeas corpus, the patriot Act, extraordinary military spending, unprecedented government secrecy and unprecedented claims for presidential authority all in the name of national security. He also shows how the invasions of Iraq as well as of Afghanistan have been justified on the basis of 9/11 and demonstrates how these wars and most of the other recent developments are in line with neoconservative ideology, which 9/11 allowed the administration to turn into official policy. Aldridge s book is distinctive because, besides highlighting all these things, he brings this analysis to bear on our present peril which is the imminent danger of martial law. All that is needed is a catastrophic emergency to set the wheels of martial law in motion. 9/11 illustrates how easily such an emergency can be orchestrated. If Aldridge is right about this, and I believe he is, then America truly is in peril. Aldridge suggests that the remedy, in the first place, is simply truth. Another great American patriot who believed this was the Reverend William Sloane Coffin Jr. A remedy, needed to reverse the developments that have brought us to our present peril. Aldridge feels, will require a spiritual perception of life which engenders respect for all peoples and hence mobilizes us to work for the common good. --David Ray Griffin, Claremont School of Theology, CA

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