The Patrior Act is Unconstitutional Essay - 966 Words

On September 11th, hijackers took over four planes; collided into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and the fourth into a field near Skanksville, Pennsylvania. 2,973 victims and the 19 hijackers died in a result of these attacks. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks) They were conceived to be a range of suicides by al-Qaeda. In return, Americans assembled together like never before. The Nation was in need of answers and subject to vulnerability. The president at the time, George W. Bush, launched the War On Terror and also put into effect the Patriot Act. This Act gave law enforcement the right to search telephone, e-mail, medical, financial, and other records. It also gave the law enforcement an†¦show more content†¦After the attacks, Arab Muslim men were arrested by the FBI, numbers in the thousands. Javaid Iqbal, who was one of these men and considered â€Å"high interest†, was imprisoned at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York. After being released, Javaid accused the Detention Center of mistreatment while in their custody. A few of these accusations included: confinement from the other prisoners, direct contact with blinding light for twenty-three hour spans, and the air conditioning in full blast, even during the winter months. Javaid brought a suit against the Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, and FBI alleging 21 violations of his statutory and constitutional right. The Us court of appeals for the second circuit stated that since these allegations were directly after the attacks of September 11th the court is going to hold them in to special regards. The court acknowledged all accounts by the district court except the right to due process. Due process is the act in which the government respects all of the legal rights of a person according to the law. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_process) The government was protected under immunity in regards to due process. Since the other accounts were considered serious allegations of gross