The State of Constitutional Rights on the Anniversary of 9/11

By Greg Camp

U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Eighteen years ago, the United States was attacked by al-Qaeda. I am told on a regular basis that we must never forget this. What I also cannot forget is that around seventeen years and eleven months ago, Congress passed one of the largest assaults on the Bill of Rights in our history, the USA PATRIOT Act, a piece of legislation whose title and provisions sound like something out of George Orwell’s 1984. In the years since, the three branches of the federal government have battled with each other to determine what balancing we will have between security and liberty in a country that all too often has made demands out of fear, rather than reflection.

On the 4th of September this year, U.S. Eastern District of Virginia Judge Anthony Trenga ruled that the database of suspects who are called “known or suspected terrorists” by the federal government is “too vague,” lacking sufficient due process protections for people who find themselves on the list, including some 4,600 Americans. This watchlist ballooned in response to the 9/11 attacks, and even for people not on the more limited No Fly List—which has also been challenged on constitutional grounds—the …Read the Rest

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