Week 5 - Person 1

After watching the four clips for the week five blog, I discovered that some of the other main points in those clips were the powers of Habeas Corpus, and how war is not between states anymore it is more or less between individuals with the powers of mass destruction. When it comes to the topic of Habeas Corpus, people that get taken into custody of the United States have the right to a writ of Habeas Corpus (which means that a prisoner can be asked to be released from an unlawful detention.) In some cases, there have been people that were detained mainly because of their race, religion, color, and creed. Even if we are in a state of war/terror, people still have civil liberties such as the right to a writ of Habeas Corpus.
The second main point that I found was that we really don’t fight other states aka countries. The last time we were at war with a country was really Iraq in desert storm (the last war with Iraq was mainly to help stop terrorism.) We face groups such as Al-Qaeda, which are small militia groups with radical views on our current society that do not run a country. Even now that we have taken over Iraq for the Iraqis’, there are still militia groups that are trying to take back the nation and get us out of the country. They may be small, but they have the power to make a huge effect in our day to day life’s—just look at what they did with 9/11.
The restrictions that are discussed in this program are very relevant to the issue at hand in the fictitious scenario. When it comes down to a chemical warfare kind of act, we need to have stricter sanctions so that we can better protect the welfare of our own people. People will view some of the restrictions as ridiculous, but in the end it all helps protect them from what could possibly happen (also when they detained some “suspicious” people, the food poisoning didn’t happen.)