Articles by Charles P. Pierce, Esquire

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Hell on Earth: Massacre in Nigeria
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2015

Massacre of somewhere north of 2000 people in the Nigerian fishing village of Baga. The details are horrifying. People fleeing the violence and drowning in a lake. Bodies still littering the streets and bushes. The idea that all of these individual acts of savagery are linked and there is one solution for the infinite facets of the problem — “More NSA spying!” “More torture!” “Immigration quotas!” — is as dangerous as it is fanciful.

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Club Gitmo
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2013

A lot of what we’ve done in our “war” on terror — including extrajudicial assassination, drumhead tribunals, and now this classically brutal response to a hunger strike, which is an act of dedicated non-violent resistance — we learned from the lessons taught by the British in Ireland and especially by Mrs. Thatcher who allowed an elected member of Parliament to starve to death.

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