Are We Doomed To Be a Police State?

>>We have done nothing, nothing at all, to limit the access of Muslim terrorists to our shores<<

Amazing, isn't it?

Especially when kicking them out would be overwhelmingly popular.

How sickingly true!
A remarkably effective presentation.
The situation is slightly even worse, though. If the offense also violates a federal civil rights law, you now can be tried a second time.

Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; ~~nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb;~~ nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, ~~nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.~~

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