I have learned from the newspaper that a law is pending that basically ignores Habeas Corpus. 

A couple of years ago, the Bush Administration passed a law in which they may hold a non-U.S. citizen under the suspicion of terrorism. Proof or a writ by a judge is not required for the Non-U.S. Citizen.

Now, the same law is pending for U.S. Citizens. Habeas Corpus declares that you cannot be held for over 48 hours without writ by a judge. But if this law passes, any citizen under suspicion of terrorism can be held for however long because of a suspicion. Your right to fair trial and verdict by jury may be void.

The Obama Administration apparently may try to nullify this act, but we all know that 2/3 vote will override his decision.

I find myself quite torn by this act. We have had a man who gave up his U.S. Citizenship to join taliban a couple of years ago. The threat of terrorism is indeed real, as we have seen in the past. I suppose I find myself worried. On 9/11 of this year, a boy I grew up with wrote online that he never imagined how 9/11 would affect his life as he grew. He was 10 when it happened, and he didn’t understand what or why it happened, nor was he apart of it. Yet he found himself in later years judged by his religion, his race, and for things he was never apart of or believed in. He is an American. He was born here. Yet, he had been stopped so many times at the airport—checked for dangerous equipment on his body. All because of racial profiling. We all know biases exist here. And we all know there are ignorant individuals in this country. He is a different kind of victim of 9/11. And such a law concerns me.

It’s intentions are good. It intends to protect the people from terrorism, but at the same time, a specific portion of the people will be vulnerable to the biased suspicion of men and women who may judge another American man or woman for being a certain race or religion. The people will have the power to condemn condemn their fellow people into jail.

However, though I may not completely agree nor disagree with such a law (since of course there is the chance that a person who IS involved is confined and by doing so, has prevented a possible future act of terrorism), I couldn’t provide a solution to fixing it. And I suppose thats the tricky part when it comes to government, isn’t it?

There has always been flaws with our judicial system, as it were, after all, the most ambiguously described branch of government out of the three in the Bill of Rights. Innocent people have been mistakenly confined and kept before, and the guilty man has escaped from the sentence he deserves. I suppose this is not a new issue in our country.

I just want to know what will happen to this country and it’s people. And I have to admit, I am afraid.