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DSandra

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8. I remember when Islamic terrorists were used as an excuse to infringe on many rights on Americans in the 2000s
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 12:13 PM
Aug 8

Including pushing through the Patriot act and sending people without due process to Guantanamo Bay. The Republicans back then did use the Constitution as toilet paper, infringing on the following sections:

Article 1, Section 9: Suspension of habeas corpus for "unlawful enemy combatants"
1st Amendment: Bush Wiretapping Program, Free Speech Zones that forced protesters to protest a mile or more away from an event (sometimes even in cages), violations against the separation of church and state,
4th Amendment: Patriot Act
6th Amendment: using military tribunals to conduct secret trials with secret evidence
8th Amendment: committing torture on terrorism suspects and using extraordinary renditioning to send them to other countries to be tortured

Muslim communities in the United States were being terrorized by the federal government back then as well.

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