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We don't care if Muslims suspected of terrorism are made uncomfortable. We are not the ACLU. We are Americans.
This is America now, but we used to be so much more. In fact, we used to be the paragons of international justice. It's amazing how far we've come down from the heights of the Nuremberg trials, where the worst criminals in human history were given real due process, with full legal representation, rules of evidence, and the whole bit. In those days, we believed in the law as a source of moral strength, that we really were "a nation of laws, not of men."
It's sad that we have become so degenerate that none of the above is true anymore. America is a nation of craven, frightened bullies, and we simply do not have the courage to hold to our supposed principles. There should have been outrage across the country last year when Romney said "our most basic civil liberty is the right to be kept alive". How much further from "Give me liberty or give me death" can you get? We've betrayed the founding principles of this country and it's unclear whether we can resurrect them.
