The Importance Of Protecting The United States Of America

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Can it be possible to protect The United States of America without risking the civil liberties? Our democracy has been customized to fit empty characters that profit by monopolizing people 's fears. Maneuvering their ideals against a herd of zombies who attentive and progressively believe that the U.S is at war. By controlling the people with constant fear and foreign threats, Washington manages to control the most valuable gift, U.S citizen’s liberties. Washington has mastered their skills over the years; people believed that we have enemies who are powerful even more powerful than this great nation. To subjugate its citizen’s freedom, so they surrender all that they have, their liberties. It is marvelous to witness how quickly modern man …show more content…
Because Al-Qaeda is neither a nations nor a signatory of the Geneva Convention, and Al Qaeda fighters did not fallow under the procedures for prisoners of war to be entitle incase if capture by the enemy, Bush administration imprisoned possible suspects, maltreated or even killed them without the U.S citizens knowing it, only when classified information started to lick was when the public realized what the government was doing in foreign afairsva. They acted very precocious by taking “enemies” to foreign ground. “The Fifth Amendment provides that no person shall be charged with “ capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces or in the Militia, when service in time of war or public danger Yeser Esam Hamdi, an U.S citizen who was captured in Afghanistan, held at Guantanamo Bay who was designated an enemy combatant, but was not charged was held with out assess to a legal attorney in 2004 the U.S supreme Court release Hamndi do to the fact that he was involved in the Taliban fighting the continued civil war and was not found guilty of being associated directly against the United States. After Hamndi surrendered and give his weapon to the Northern Alliance forces who classified him as an enemy combatant although congress gave authorization to the President to exercise any necessary and appropriate force this too became problematic. The Fourth Circuit judge juggled two values: the judiciary’s duty to protect constitutional rights versus the deference that courts should grant to military decisions reached by the Presodential

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