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Originally Posted by FunkyTown
You lost the right of Habeas Corpus under the Patriot Act.
That's just a fancy schmancy way of saying the government can take someone off the street and put them in a place where no human rights agencies are allowed to go and the government can keep you there for as long as the goverment wants. The caveat to that is that they have to suspect you of terrorism, but the government refuse to define what terrorism means.
So yes, you have lost rights: A very basic human right, in fact, that has been around since the 13th century. RIP Magna Carta.
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Lincoln suspended habeus corpus during the war between the states and I am guessing that Roosevelt also with the Japanese interment camps.
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