US security measures 'eroding civil rights'

US citizens now face greater surveillance, screenings and security checks, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

Civil liberties organisations, such as the ACLU, say those measures have come at the expense of personal freedom.

Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan reports from Washington.

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[Kryptonian250]

Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither and will get neither - Benjamin Franklin.

[ppkrex]

That is blackmail/extortion

[Mindcrime121]

They may have passed this as "law" but it is NOT "legal" because it is superceded by the constitution of the US, which says they CAN'T do this sort of shit. If Obama is so eager to point fingers at Bush for everything that is wrong in America, why the HELL hasn't Obama done something about THIS shit and overturned it?!?

[Rushour717]

this is almost like china!!

[ppkrex]

@MsColdCanada I totally agree. I had a similar thing happen when I was in high school the resource officers were trying to get me and a few other students in trouble, so that we could become informants on the student body. I told my parents, and got them reassigned. They were also getting students finger prints with out parental authority. All of this was done in the Fulton County School Systems, and they only ceased because the parents in Alpharetta, GA had the resources to stop them.

[rank666]

LOL people still think americans have freedom

amerlolicans

[JEG4RonPaul]

Go back to sleep America! Your government has everything under control. Go back to sleep America! Your government will take care of everything.

[healthhavencom]

When the vast majority of people have had enough and stop flying, the airlines will wake up, kick out the TSA and then beg people to come back.

[midwestcharm]

The government can bury you alive with a pile of dirt with no trial. Can you believe this? In America?

[MountainMan19831]

RON PAUL is the People's Choice in 2012! Join the rEVOLution!

[wabdinur]

If you Yanks think that your government will just spy and extort American Muslims...guess again. They always start on the weak and indefensible and start their way up :D

How ironic that the US government comes out with an annual report lambasting foreign regimes for their human rights record and yet this is what it's doing to its own people.