... they are being accused of. It was during World War II that the last tribunals took place. The accusation of eight German citizens was sabotage. Their trials were held in secret. The sentencing for six out of the eight men was death. For such a serious charge, the defendants should have had a public trial in which something more could have come to ... for that they paid the ultimate price, their lives. Now, with "nearly 1,200 people detained" (Madden 1), each one may possibly face the same consequences, with President Bush serving as the police, judge, jury, and executioner. (Stephen 3) ...

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... are entering a pretty unfriendly environment. Cyberspace, especially the Internet, is full of those who embrace a frontier culture that is hostile to authority and fearful that any intrusions of police or government will destroy their self-regulating world.5 The self-regulating environment desired by the cyberpunks is an opportunity to do whatever they want. The Communications Decency Act is an ... the First Amendment.9 By laws previously set by the government, obscene pornography should not be accessible on the Internet. The government must police the Internet because people are breakin...

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Americans have rights to keep their communications secret. The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from "unreasonable searches and seizures" ("Bill of Right" am.4). As a result, a police officer or a government agency must acquire permission from a judge if he or she searches the private property or arrests someone. In order to get the warrant, he or she must ... using US telecoms transitional ones. "The programme is also the main data acquisition system for inside the US" (O'Cleirigh par.3). The NSA transfers the internet lines to "a secret room" in which specialists can take the data from ...

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... of the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation essentially provided for a jointing of relatively independent states. It was against this background of increasing Balkanization that the delegates met in a secret session in May 1787: out of the convention, however, came the Constitution of the U.S., a document very different from the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution provides for national powers to regulate ... 102nd justice appointed in the Supreme Court's history. A staff of about 320 people supports the justices most of these people, maintenance workers, secu...

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