Domestic Terrorism Research Paper

Police officers can hold you for up to fourteen days if you are arrested under the Terrorism Act. Which includes any person that engages in domestic terrorism, any act dangerous to human life, that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to intimidate a civilian population, influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion. Indefinite detention is the incarceration of a person by a national government without trial. Government officials should not have the right to detain suspected terrorists without trial because it violates the essence of American process and the rule of law. Officials do not need to detain terror suspects without trial because they can be prosecuted under the U.S existing court and laws. And any law that purports to authorize the long-term detention of suspected terrorists on the basis of perceived future dangerousness rather than past criminal conduct will likely be invalidated by our federal courts. A system of detention without trial for terrorism suspects would rightly be viewed by Americans and throughout the world as an illegitimate continuation of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. Also often called Gitmo was used to house Muslim militants and suspected terrorists captures by the U.S forces in

The indefinite detention provision of the law was described as a “historic assault on American liberty”. United States District Judge Katherine B. Forrest, ruled the detention violates the first and fifth amendments of the Constitution and issued a Preliminary Injunction preventing the U.S government from enforcing it. As stated in Article 10, everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any charge against