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Besides the documentation of Patriot Act abuse described above, there's another fundamental flaw with your aunt's logic.
She believes it is all right to curtail the freedom of criminals.
How does one determine who is a "criminal" or a "terrorist" for whom the rules do not apply?
In the past, when innocence was presumed until guilt was proved, a court of law would apply the "criminal" label.
Today, the Executive Branch does this without a trial and without giving the accused a chance to make a fair defense of their case.
So someone like Jose Padilla can be held indefinitely because he is a "terrorist," and because he is a "terrorist" he does not have the right to a trial.
Ask your aunt how she would like to be erroneously designated a "terrorist" and then denied the chance to disprove those charges because of that label.
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