Another point in the video that was talked about is how holding military detainees as suspects and not as criminals is a threat to civil liberties. It is a controversial issue and some people will actually say that the United States has lowered their threshold of civil liberties to be able to get their hands on more suspected terrorists. I personally do think that especially after the 9/11 events, that the government should have stricter enforcements, and if it means detaining people who make threats against our country, so be it. Who’s to say that someone that makes a threat is just doing that and won’t actually act out their threat, even after being reprimanded. It is noted in the video that “a threat is not just simply intention, it is also accessibility to methods”, which I agree with completely. If someone makes a threat to do something, more times than not they have the methods to go through with their threat, or there are chances that they have accessibility to those methods through someone else. Also, another reason for detaining certain suspects regardless of civil liberties is because if they are released back into the community, they are apt to either commit the crime they threatened to do, or they will retry to commit the terrorist act that they attempted in the first place.
In the past two years there have been over 120 people indicted in federal court on terrorism charges, about 50 of those being United States citizens. I think that detaining those who make threats regardless of any criminal activity, is only helping our government and our nation as a whole become a better and safer place. Without our military and government taking a stand and detaining all of those who make threats, there could very well be even more terrorist attacks that are attempted against us
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