Fortress America: On the Front Lines of Homeland Security - An Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State

Anthricite said Facinating analysis. In depth portrait of the changes in America in the post 9/11 era. Brzezinski provides both a micro-level and macro-level perspective on the impact terrorism has made on American life.. Necessary Discourse FORTRESS AMERICA is a well written, engrossing account of what we know so far and what COULD happen if forces go unchecked. We are, thankfully, a government of checks and balances and while most of the extreme scenarios in this book may not become a reality, it makes me even more vigilant that small measures (like the Patriot Act) do not snowball int. Interesting This book does shed some light on previously little known topics. It is a book that must be read carefully.

Is this the new price of freedom? Mandatory chips installed in all cell phones and automobiles that can locate you instantly within a dozen yards Patriot II legislation that can arbitrarily revoke citizenship and allow terrorist sympathizers to vanish without a trace Transponder implants that could be injected into the bodies of prisoners, foreign nationals, and perhaps one day all US citizens. Citizens deemed "suspicious" taken away without formal charges or legal counsel. But the costs of safeguarding our country will require not only unprecedented amounts of funding, but dramatic changes in the way Americans lead their everyday lives. The result is this startling, sometimes controversial look at what it will take to achieve genuine homeland security and what it may be like to live inside Fortress America. Such high-tech measures are not the stuff of science fiction but in many cases are already being implemented. As Brzezinski discovers, similar measures have been in use for years in security states like Israel. Would a "safe" America even look like America anymore? One of the few journalists to penetrate the new counter terror initiative, Matthew Brzezinski