Heather asks a good question to the scenario that Frank Sesno made up “is it okay to hold these people without giving them legal counsel and really not having any hard evidence to support what they are doing”. She believes that it is right because they are only trying to protect our nation. We both agree that if we were suspects, we would be okay with being held. Because we know we are innocent, we might be upset in the beginning, but at least we know we haven’t done anything and that they are doing everything they can to try and catch the attackers.
Jess says, “I believe that we, as American’s, should have the right to legal counsel. The government should take measures to ensure the US citizen rights to legal counsel within reasonable time, and a certain length of time needs to be set with regards to a person being detained”. I agree with this and that those people shouldn’t have been denied the right to a legal counsel. However, who is to say what a reasonable time is? When it comes to protecting our country and our citizens, should it matter how long we keep people. I think that once a suspect is found to be completely innocent they can be released and that is a reasonable amount of time. I wouldn’t want a suspect to be released just because they have been held for too long. If they actually are the attackers, we just made a huge mistake.
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