America as a nation has always been drawn taut between its interests - intelligence, military, economic, political and otherwise - and its ideals which clearly

America as a nation has always been drawn taut between its interests - intelligence, military, economic, political and otherwise - and its ideals which clearly state that "all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights" which includes a right to a liberty which excludes suspicion-less search and seizure and a right to be secure in their persons. Throughout the history of America we've seen the tension shift to one side of this rope or the other. through a series of Supreme Court decisions in the very early 1900's (during the Spanish American war) it was settled at the highest level that American occupied territories do not have a right to self-determination nor to many other constitutional rights. Today this is status quo.