Civil Liberties extra credit

Our civil liberties are becoming more and more pressured every day. Hundreds of people every day are subjected to civil liberty abuse. Our government always thinks of bullshit excuses to why they would ever need to violate peoples civil liberties and many people do not really understand or believe that the government is doing this.
Programs such as ACLU (American Civil Liberty Union), try to protect and expose the government for what they are doing. The ACLU's National Security Project (NSP) is for national security policies that are consistent with the Constitution, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights. "The Project litigates cases relating to detention, torture, discrimination, surveillance, censorship, and secrecy". They have been part of many major cases that opposed the governments security policies that violated civil liberties. Such cases were the AAR v. Chertoff and ASA v. Chertoff, ACLU v. DOD (Torture FOIA), Al-Marri v. Pucciarelli, Amnesty v. McConnell, and Doe v. Ashcroft.
Many people are taken for years and tortured for being false accused of being a terrorist or being a threat to national security. Such as Zacarias Moussaoui who was almost given the death penalty for being falsely accused of being the 20th hijacker of 9/11. Also, after the terrible terrorist attacks of 9/11 the government authorized for many people to have their phones, computers and pretty much all of their civil liberties violated because they were "suspicious". Still after the authorization happened not a single on of those persons were proven as terrorists.
People need to realize that their government might not always be the protector of the people. They need to start to question the intense amount of secrecy and censorship that the government has kept over the people. Its important to question the reasons and drastic moves that the government makes and to not always trust in everything the government does. Even if they say that their intentions were "for the national security of the people."