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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I get the feeling (as an outsider) that the US is more and more the country of a paranoid government who, despite their words, think that everybody is guilty unless proven innocent.
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Unfortunately, this is true. And the situation is getting worse every day. Once we were protected by the Constitution from 'illegal search and seizure.' No longer. Once we were protected by the Constitution with 'due process.' That doesn't exist any longer... if decided that the situation 'may be' a national threat. This mean that people can... and have been... arrested and detained for months without access to legal representation, in fact without ever even knowing why they were detained.
It's called the "Patriot Act" and it took away most of the Constitutional guaranteed rights we had under the Bill of Rights. They simply do not exist any longer as 'guaranteed rights.' If a representative of the government, be that a policeman, a postal worker, or even a TSA line checker without any education, decides that someone 'may be' a threat, they are guilty until proven innocent.
Stitchawl