Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties

Unconstitutional The War on Our Civil Liberties is an American 2004 political documentary about the legal problems with the PATRIOT Act. It posits that the law, hastily passed in the wake of the 911 attacks, is used to justify a variety of abuses of civil rights that are guaranteed by the US Constitution.

A few weeks after the Septemberattacks in 2001, the United States Congress passed a complicated and controversial law purportedly designed to help with tracking future terrorist threats. Unconstitutionals purpose is to explain the USA PATRIOT Act to its viewers and expose its alleged failings.Primary among these is the way in which post911 law enforcement detained Muslims and others with Arabic names for unspecified lengths of time without due process or criminal charges. As examples of this, Unconstitutional presents the stories of Safouh Mamoui, a Syrian living in Seattle, who was arrested without charges and imprisoned for ten months after the FBI cleared him of suspicion Jose Padilla, a US citizen and Muslim convert, who was arrested as a material witness in the 911 attacks, and later designated an enemy combatant so he could be kept behind bars by the military in the absence of evidence or charges and Aquil Adbullah, an American Catholic Olympic athlete who was put on the nofly list as a result of his Arabic name. The film claims at least 1000 lesserknown people have been similarly abused. It also addresses the situation of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. ........

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