What rights of the american citizen has been taken away since the beginning of War on Terrorism?

Question

Or which do you think may be taken away in the future? Why?

how can you say privacy? if you are talking about while you are in public you dont have access to privacy no where does it say you have privacy in public....

Answer 1

Well, I know that with the Military Commission Act of 2006 the right to an attorney, right to Habeaus Corpus, right to a trial, right to see charges against you. Basically, it takes away your 5th and 6th ammendment rights. Not to mention the illegal wiretapping that violates your 4th ammendment rights.

Answer 2

None of our Rights have been taken away but yes there have been inconveniences sacrificed in the name of National Security. If you read the original Bill of Rights that this country was founded on it is evident that we have not really lost any of our rights. What a large number of the public assume are their rights are simply privileges. Just because we are American Citizens doesn't mean we don't have to have a passport to travel abroad. Until 9/11 we could travel to Canada and Mexico and simply state "I am an American Citizen" and expect to come back across the boarder. We all assumed we could just spout off a Social Security Number and would never be questioned. One of the rights and privileges that has not been sacrificed is the fact that we can say what we feel in this or any forum written of spoken in this country.

Answer 3

The one right that I can think of is our right to privacy. The U.S. Constitution says in the 4th. Amendment, " The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place ro be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

A telephone conversation between you and anyother person is private. The government has a list of key word that triggers search of phone conversations and record as to whom they were made to. Some of those words may be, but limited to, bomb, gun, kill(ed), etc., etc. You could be calling someone and in the course of your conversation you could tell them that the battery blew up in your car and it sounded like a gun was fired at you.

Oh, boy. Now you have triggered a key word and now the Government is searching your phone records to see if you just might be a terrorist. Of course you are not, but they just violated your privacy without a Warrant being issued.

The President is sticking by his order to allow monitoring certain phone calls ( which covers a lot of territory) which is in effect violating your 4th. Amend. rights. Now let's look at the duties of the President.

Art. 2, Sec. 3 in part, states that " he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed," Is he doing that? At least in this case, no. I realize the President has a very hard job at times and he is trying to do the best he can. Sometimes he may step across the line a little, but we should be able to overlook some of the things in the interest of National security. The President has to realize that he carries a two edged sword and sometimes he has to cut a little of the good while cutting the bad.

Anyway, I am glad we are fighting terrorism over there instead of over here.

American by birth, Constitutionalist by choice.

Answer 4

The angel Gabriel instructed me in Aug. 1973 that Jimmy Carter is the Anti-chist and that he is going to alter his call and divorce his spouse! Obama is going to die first and then the Anti-christ who became between the previous 7 Presidents will take his place! Rev. 17:10 And there are seven kings: 5 are fallen, and one is, [and] the different isn't yet come; and whilst he cometh, he ought to proceed a short area. those 7 kings have been; a million. Gerald Ford 2. Jimmy Carter 3. Ronald Reagan 4. George H. W. Bush 5. invoice Clinton 6. George W. Bush.... is spoken of in the present annoying (and one is) by using fact till Reagan died all 7 have been alive! 7. Barack Obama.......and one is yet to return! he will die some days after he will strengthen taxes! Obama is likewise in Dan. 11:20 Then shall arise in his assets a raiser of taxes [in] the honor of the dominion: yet interior of few days he would be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in conflict. Rev. 17:11 And the beast that became, and is no longer, even he's the 8th, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

Answer 5

None of my rights have been. At the same time I do acknowledge that technology has done away with privacy. Today the only place privacy exist is inside ones head. That privacy frequently leaks out of ones mouth.

Answer 6

Nothing has been taken from you as rights. If there missing then you as a people allowed them to be removed. Don't blame others for your own mistakes. Get out and be part of the process instead of quoting others that have no idea what they are saying.

Answer 7

Let me put it this way. When Homeland Security tracks down a 12 yr. old school girl for posting an unfavorable cartoon of Bush on a web site, then this country is ******-up.

You have to believe that HS knew it was a schoolgirl within 10 minutes. Big threat to national security, eh?

So, why did they waste our tax dollars going out to her state, pulling her out of class, and harrassing her?

What was the point of this?

In the meantime, thousands of ship containers enter our ports uninspected.

Answer 8

Read the Military Commision Act of 2006 which Mr. Bush signed a few weeks ago. All, I mean A-L-L of your rights are gone with the passage of the above. Just read upon it on the net.

Also, read The Patriot Act.

Answer 9

Our right to privacy and the ability to self govern. The only fear we need to adhere to is fear itself. We are being led to the slaughter house by the far right. Our fear is reminiscent of Nazi Germany, let's just give it all up and build concentration camps and build fences and return to the ignorance we so boldly fought off in Iwo Jima and Normandy.

Answer 10

Here's a nice example of one of the rights that has been taken away by the Patriot act