Security vs. Rights essays

Security vs. Rights essays "The detentions from the beginning have been veiled in secrecy. This decision will help to lift that veil so ... at least we can put names to prisoners' faces, and the families will know if their loved ones have been arrested." - Curt Goering. Although this may sound like some fascist, 1984 Orwellian "disappearing" of people against the government, it is actually your milk man. Ever since the events of September 11th, government officials have taken away many "suspected" terrorists to undisclosed locations. This includes your electrician, plumber, professor and city counsel member. The Bush Administration is in wrong doing by not granting constitutional rights to the 1,200 foreign nationals held in secretive detainment; especially issuing no warrants during their arrest. These rights are set forth to all people on American soil, as is the moral and law abiding thing to do. Granting these people their rights is morally justified. These "material witnesses" are nothing more than your next door neighbor, John Snackle, who works at the supermarket, and not part of a hidden terrorism cell. John Sanckle is your everyday law following citizen; however, he broke the unwritten law of being a foreign national, someone born in another country. By breaking this "law", John was detained by an undercover FBI agent on his way home from work and flown off to a maximum security prison. In essence, the government is running a gross racial profiling of all unofficial United States citizens of any decent from the "Axis of Evil" and shipping them off to a secretive location. It is in no way humanitarian to barge into someone's life, without a warrant, and "disappear" them. The Washington Post reported September 14th that "after countless investigations of thousands of suspects" a trio of men were the first "since the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and th e Pentagon to be accused of operating a terrorist cell in the United States"...