Germany's Interior Minister Otto Schily, who as a lawyer used to represent terror suspects, has proposed loosening restrictions on surveillance, in effect giving investigators the right to pry without any stated suspicion.
When Felix Dzerzhinsky founded the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police, in December 1917, announcing, "We represent terror - this must be stated openly - a terror that is absolutely essential in the revolutionary period we are passing through," Ransome defended this too, in a way that may ring bells today.
The fact that President Bush's DOJ also hired lawyers who represented terror suspects hasn't fazed right-wing media shills.
If you or someone you know fits that bill, please consult your physician and be sure to read Media Matters' memo to right-wing media: Bush DOJ lawyers also represented terror suspects.
The way we interpret terror represents an unspoken decision to elevate it from banality to sublime evil.
Some are lawyers representing accused terror suspects in the United States and often need to communicate with the suspects' family members or acquaintances outside of the country.
Sometimes she seems to rage against terror, her voice a shield; in other moments, it is as though she were trying to represent that terror, conjuring our scabrous traditions as sound.
A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday rejected a request that he appoint a lawyer to represent a terror suspect who was captured last weekend in Libya and was said to be undergoing interrogation while in military custody on a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea.
This is designed to represent the terror that was projected onto the people of Hungary by the totalitarian regimes of the 20th Century.
Waterstreet had represented another terror suspect, Belal Khazaal, who at the time of his arrest was accused of authoring a terrorist manual for Australian-based jihadists. .
