Respone to "The War on Civil Liberties"

Elaine Cassel presented that President George W. Bush, Attorney general John Ashcroft, a compliant Congress, and courts all have undermined the Bill of Right after September 11, 2011 in her book entitled, The War on Civil Liberties. In this book, the author focus on that the Bush administration's curtailment of civil liberties and how this policy is directly tied to the war on terrorism in response to the attacks of September 11, 2011. After I read this book, I am going to explain how the legislation and executive orders have undermined the Bill of Rights by specifying how provisions of each act violate constitutional rights.

First of all, what do you think of “Civil Liberties"? As Cassel presents in her book about "Civil Liberties", "In the strictest sense, civil liberties are liberties inherent in our bodies, our homes, our minds, our churches, our travels, and our associations. These most elemental of freedoms, along with rights of the people in the face of government power, were granted to Americans in the Bill of Rights" (Cassel 3). As we know, the Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution that severs to protect civil rights and property. She thinks that civil liberties refer to individual rights free from the powers of the government, and the way of life should be freely.

However, "A month after Bush's declaration of war, Attorney General John Ashcroft led a virtually unquestioning Congress to enact laws that would change the concept of what it means to be 'free' in America that dated back over 200 years" ( Cassel 2). We always think America is the land of the free, but after September 11, it has changed. “Dishonesty from politicians is nothing new for Americans. The real question is whether we are lying to ourselves when we call this country the land of the free" (Jonathan Turley, 10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free). Cassel focuses the three of pieces of legislation, dozens of lesser-known...