George Takei Fears NSA Spying Will Lead to Something Much Worse

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22. That American citizens were rounded up and put in prison camps with barbed wire and machine guns

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pointed at them in the absence of probable cause was a stark violation of their constitutional rights for which the nation later publicly apologized. If government had so egregiously violated the constitutional rights of tens of thousands of citizens more than seventy years ago solely due to their having the same ethnicity/ancestry as an enemy, why is it so hard for Americans to come to grips with the fact that big brother might again violate their constitutional rights in the wake of a major terraist attack on American soil after which big brother created a climate of mass hysteria, passed the patently unconstitutional The Patriot Act, and launched a pre-emptive war of aggression?