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Submitted by kvillano311 on February 27, 2008
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The United States is a democracy in which the First Amendment was written to protect the people’s rights of speech, press, assembly and redress of grievance. If the government is allowed to step in and prohibit or limit any of these rights, democracy then becomes a dictatorship. Telephone taps, secrecy, invasion of privacy and control of the media are just the beginning. History has shown a pattern of the government smothering the rights of its citizens when it believes that national security is jeopardized. Ever since the beginning of the “war on terrorism,” the Bush administration has asserted that the continuing of this unclear and undefined conflict is more important than the basic democratic rights preserved in the Constitution.
In the aftermath of September 11th, the Bush administration rounded up hundreds of Arabs and Muslims and placed them in prisons. (Mears,2) The government claimed they were going after terrorists. Many of these people were innocent of any crime, but were held in the prisons and possibly tortured. “The Justice Department last year, found definite issues with the imprisonments, including accusations of physical ill-treatment.”(Mears,1) The Supreme Court of the United States allowed the government to continue this behavior and, in addition, keep secret the names of the prisoners from the press. The press has the right to inform the public of current events. However, by suppressing information and keeping secret their actions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Bush administration prevented freedom of the press.
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