A month and a half after the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington, the still controversial Patriot Act was passed through Congress with little in the way of debate. Though the act was passed under the ideology that it would strengthen national security and go a tong ways towards giving the appropriate government agencies the privileges and powers that they need to hunt down and stop terrorists before they strike, many argue that it infringes upon those civil liberties guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States of America.
What this documentary (and many related essays, books, speeches, films and whatnot) sets out to prove is how the Patriot Act has been used by the American government to obtain private information, detain innocent civilians of Arab descent, and enforce extended periods of confinement without due representation. In other words, it seems to have given the government the power to state that certain persons (the majority being Arabic in origin) are guilty until proven innocent. The US constitution states it is supposed to work the other way around? Is patriotism to support your government no matter what? Or is patriotism to support your humanistic constitution no matter what, and your government when it abides by it?
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