Posted on 02/13/2004 9:28:38 PM PST by chance33_98
From Library Journal In a cursory overview of international crime, Senator Kerry (D-Mass.) implausibly calls for foreign criminal law to be imported into the United States to prosecute nationals of other countries who plan crimes here then conduct them abroad. His rationale is that weak or corrupt countries cannot effectively prosecute crimes committed within their jurisdictions. At the same time, he suggests that crimes committed against Americans abroad be prosecuted here in "special courts." He also calls for transnational asset forfeiture, in which victimized countries would share in the forfeiture of assets seized in cooperating jurisdictions. While well intentioned, the book is short on specifics and contains no revelations about international crime. For general audiences.?Harry Charles, Attorney at Law, St. Louis, Mo. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist Fresh from a hard-fought win over Governor William Weld in the 1996 Massachusetts senatorial race, Kerry pulls together information he gathered as chairman and ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations (1987^-97). "Crime still seems only a local phenomenon to most of us," Kerry notes, but crime has globalized, with international groupings--"the Italian Mafia, the Russian mobs, the Japanese yakuza, the Chinese triads, and the Colombian... read more
Reviewer: matthew grocoff from los angeles, ca United States
Extraordinary book. It will give you chills. 5 years before 9/11 the author talked about the threat of terrorism. With prescience and intelligence he stated that "It will take only one mega-terrorist event in any of the great cities of the world to change the world in a single day." This guy is going to make a wonderful president.
With the end of the Cold War and the growing globalization of the world marketplace there has been a marked increase in the last decade of terrorist activities, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, being just two of the more conspicuous examples. In his book "The New War", Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts lays out a complete picture of the international crime syndicates which now threaten America's security and way of life. Senator Kerry lays out a compelling argument for America to take steps to protect our infrastructure from outside threats.
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