Civil liberties we are losing?

[BlueK]

Originally Posted by Tex

Your experience is obviously narrower than your swipe.



And somehow Arch gets away with claiming that I'm most condescending poster ever.



You didn't point out anything of the sort. We're all talking in hypotheticals.

What about the guy in Iraq that was detained for 97 days? I don't know if that case fell directly under the Patriot Act or not, but it does fall under the broader issue of whether civil liberties may be eroding. You'd expect a US civilian citizen under control of the US army to still have Constitutional rights, yet he was specifically told those didn't apply and they were going to hold him as long as they felt like it. Finally they checked his story that he had been working for the FBI and found out he was telling the truth. But it took 97 days of harsh imprisonment before they even bothered to find out. Had he been allowed to speak to a lawyer it could have been cleared up a lot faster. The current attitude of the government towards civil liberties is what allows stuff like this to happen.