>In the 2000's, we tried to detain non-U.S. citizens captured in Afghanistan on a military base that wasn't even on U.S. soil, and the Supreme Court smacked dow

>In the 2000's, we tried to detain non-U.S. citizens captured in Afghanistan on a military base that wasn't even on U.S. soil, and the Supreme Court smacked down the administration three different times and the detainees all got lawyers. Meanwhile, despite all the theatre, the same prison still operates and the same kind of things keep happening there. So on top of the very same things we had in 1940s, we also have a "theatre show" about right nowadays. So, the same, plus hypocrisy. This is supposed to be good? You also forgot tons of other ways people are not protected against the government (from the Patriot Act, to warantless wiretaps, to mass electronic surveillance of mail and web activity, etc) that didn't exist in the past. Oh, and as for that 40's example? That was at a time of OPEN WAR, with hundreds of thousands of American _common_ citizens fighting, and big domestic consequences to the USA. Nowadays Iraq and co are run like private wars, with the professional army and private contractors, that have little impact on the country (except the expense and some casualties of professional troops), which people only ever care about for ethical reasons. What would have happened to civil rights if the US was actually involved in a war of the WWII scale and impact is not something anybody can describe.