2007-06-05 12:07:35 · 11 answers · asked by Urrka N Da CLuB 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Sadly, yes. Wartime leads to the suspension of many people's rights - include the right to life, one that, sadly, can't be re-instated at the end of the war.
Examples of American presidents who have suspended citizens' rights durring wartime and yet gone down in history as great men would include Abraham Lincoln and FDR.
2007-06-05 12:16:32 · answer #1 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, the government is never justified in suspending citizens' rights during wartime. I don't care what the Constitution says.
2007-06-05 12:13:01 · answer #2 · answered by TheOrange Evil 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, this country is built on the belief that individual have rights, that should always be protected.
In the current situation with the PATRIOT act, the government wants US citizens to give up their rights to help catch terrorists. However, terrorists are attacking us because of our rights. So doesn't that defeat the purpose?
Another example is when President Roosevelt put lots of Japanese Americans in internment camps during WWII, which was also wrong.
2007-06-05 12:14:24 · answer #3 · answered by greencoke 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends on which rights you mean. The right to be out at night can be curtailed with a curfew. The right to travel freely can be limited by requiring paper and having checkpoints to search your belongings and question you in public. The right to speak to others without government eavesdropping can be limited by official wiretaps. Oh, wait, we already have these today, in the name of "security".
The miliary curfew and internment camps for Japanese-Americans were, by the way, ruled "constitutional" by the U.S. Supreme Court, if that is any indication of which way such things may go in the future. Funny how they ignored the German-Americans.
2007-06-05 13:08:22 · answer #4 · answered by Nuff Sed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like when the Democrats locked up the Japanese-Americans?
Or like when Bush started tapping cross-border phone calls to and from radical Muslims overseas?
You idiots can vote thumbs down all you want, the NSA isn't listening to you.
Unless you're calling radical imams in foreign countries that is.
2007-06-05 12:11:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, if it compromises the security of the nation in a way that everyone can readily understand.
2007-06-05 12:27:13 · answer #6 · answered by Brixton B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If they can be suspended, they are not "Inalienable" therefore the government can suspend them whenever it feels good.
2007-06-05 12:15:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is a shame we don't practice that anymore. Lot of anti Americans living here. These people have no idea how they got it, they think everyone else is better off, yet they don't move to this "better" country. Hmmmmm!!!! wonder why??
2007-06-05 12:13:43 · answer #8 · answered by driver 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If we were being invaded I could accept it, I could also accept rationing commodities like some foods and gas.
2007-06-05 12:45:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler did. So did Bush when he tapped the phone calls of his political opponents and millions of other Americans.
That is one of the reasons they both started their wars.
2007-06-05 12:16:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋