Monday, February 14, 2011

Security and Liberty Post-9/11

I do agree that after what our country has had to overcome post 9/11, we should do whatever it takes to keep this country safe, however, we are dealing with people, not objects, and most of these people are not guilty of anything. By arresting 'suspects' and intgerogating them for hours, and keeping them locked up is taking away all of their habeas corpus rights, and is illegal in the United States. This country has turned into a country that would rather just blame another group of people, like in the host's senerio, they took a sixth generation Arabic into custody without having any information to show he had any connections to the bombings. If the United States has any suspicion to hold a possible terrorist, they should be told what the reason is and they should also be allowed to consult a lawyer, just like a suspect would be allowed to in a murder case, even though the stakes are a lot higher, why make it any different? If the suspect didn't have any hatred towards the country before being detained, they probably will after, and then that could possibly put the country at jeopardy. We need to remeber that even though terrorism is a huge problem, not every person who's from the Middle East is guilty of it, and also we need to remeber that this country has been known for the fact that everyone is innocent until proven guilty, and this has to apply in cases of possible terrorism as well.

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