Secondly, with the passing of the Patriot Act, the use of secret military tribunals is a serious danger to the public’s civil liberties. These trails do not abide by many of the same regulations and rights that our civilian courts maintain. These military courts do not provide a choice of lawyer, they accept various types of evidence that would not be credible in a civilian court, they accept various methods of extracting data that are not legal to perform on civilians, including but not limited to denial of their …show more content…
Homes, businesses, mosques and Muslim schools have been vandalized, children tormented, and students harassed on college campuses. Outside of the regular hate crimes perpetrated by the people of the American public, the US government started racially profiling potential terrorists based on “Arab” features. (Hunt, 2014) This not only was a direct violation of the civil rights of the American people, but useless in identifying potential terrorists. (Hunt, 2014; Williams,