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An 11 page review of the various impacts to American ideology and rights we have witnessed in our societal response to terrorism. The author contends that the suspension of legal rights associated with counter-terrorist strategies are more in keeping with the martial law of militarized and totalitarian states than the rule of law that operates in the civil societies of democratic states. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Terrorism has had a horrendous impact on society as we once knew it. This impact has been both direct and indirect. We not only have to deal with
the physical and emotion scars caused by acts of terrorism, we have to deal with the societal scars caused by our reaction to terrorism. One of the most concerning of
those reactions is the attacks that we have been subjected to in terms of our legal rights. It can be contended, in fact, that the suspension of legal rights associated
with counter-terrorist strategies are more in keeping with the martial law of militarized and totalitarian states than the rule of law that operates in the civil societies of democratic states.
As individuals in a democratic system, U.S. citizens pride themselves on certain ideologies and personal rights that are afforded by that
democracy. Among the most sacred of these are our views of equality and our personal privacy rights. With the events that have unfolded in the aftermath of the
September 11, 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center and the subsequent attacks on the U.S. Pentagon, however, we have witnessed a significant percentage of such ideologies and rights erode
away almost overnight. At the same time we have become exceptionally aware of the fact that our political boundaries are no longer exempt from terrorist acts, an awareness that
first began to emerge after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and, as a point of interest, after the subsequent bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma by
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