In the movie "The Siege," Denzel Washington's character Anthony Hubbard explains the violated rights in the last speech he makes to General William Devereaux (Bruce Willis), and virtually covers all of the Amendments and rights that were completely trampled on by General Devereaux, his men, and the Federal Government. In the "detention" center where the "prisoners" of the army are being held in the movie there was a scene of torture in order to "extract" information from a man, which is prohibited by the Eighth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution which prohibit "cruel and unusual punishments" and the right to silence in the fifth. The man was then executed probably by Devereaux, which is also prohibited by the constitution, in the Fifth Amendment "...no person shall be deprived of Life, Liberty, or Property without due process of law." not to mention it was murder which is against the law.
             The movie is an excellent example of what happens when people are afraid, the fear of the people caused them to overreact, just as after the September eleventh terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Towers, Arab Americans were unjustly prosecuted by so-called "patriots" and racial profiling was put into use at airports and other mass transportation centers. Thankfully the insane reaction in the movie was not mirrored after the terrible attacks on September eleventh. The false imprisonment of thousands of Arab Americans in the movie is an obvious and obscene violation of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, which guarantee a fair trial, that the accused will not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without a fair trial, and that the accused be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation. These repugnant violations of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights show what fear does to our society and disclose the need for the Bill of Rights.
             The Bill of Rights is the greatest protection of our civil liberties afforded to ...