The coercion of international law is, from the perspective of the authors of the book, one of the central points that support anti-Americanism. It should also be demonstrated that this legal nihilism is significantly rooted in the social Darwinist structure of American society. This explains both the high degree of willingness to use violence among U.S. citizens, the brutal prison system, and the pronounced tendency towards class and (state) lynch justice. Using the example of Guantanamo Bay, this U.S. base in Cuba designed for the confinement of humans, it will further be shown how the U.S. system still exhibits traits of a slaveholding society. It is one of the standard arguments of Americanism to portray the United States as the epitome of a "liberal democracy." However, the liberalism of this reality is questionable.