The problems caused by the Patriot Act are affecting ordinary civilian, especially legal immigrants. This law authorizes of indefinite detentions of immigrants; law enforcement officers search a home or business without the owner’s or the occupant’s permission or knowledge; allows the FBI to search telephone, e-mail, and financial records without a court order. Most of the Act only affects to the immigrants. Martin Luther King Jr. writes, “An unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on a minority that is not binding on itself” (par. 15).
After this Harrison verbally agreed to let the investigators search his apartment. During the search a gun was found hidden under a sink. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. The Fourth Amendment is not a guarantee against all searches and seizures, but only those that are deemed unreasonable under the law. The Exclusionary Rule prevents the court from using any evidence collected after an unreasonable search and seizure.
The U.S. Government takes a lot of safety precautions to protect its property and people, but sometimes they go too far even as far as to invade the privacy of its citizens. In the new film Bourne Ultimatum many example of privacy invasion is demonstrated. Some of these examples of privacy invasion are acceptable under extreme circumstances, but others are not. In one scene the government’s agents received information that a British news reporter uncovered something about an operation called Black Briary, so they tried to track him down by looking up his record. They were able to find his personal information including his address, cell-phone numbers, and job location.
In the essay “Why Fear National ID Cards?” by Alan Dershowitz, Dershowitz elaborates his views on national identity cards and the benefits of having one. He sums it up by stating “A little less anonymity for a lot more security.” With that being said what makes him so sure that something as simple as a national identity card would make society secure? What would stop a person with a national ID from committing a crime or other acts of terror? Yes having one would make it easier to pin point a suspected terrorist but the reality of the situation is there would be no change in the level of security with or without a national identity card. Dershowitz makes it clear that he is skeptical about the idea of national ID cards and states that he supports national identity cards with chips matching a person’s fingerprints.
What is the Patriot Act? (ACLU: Keep America Safe and Free) 1. The official title of the USA PATRIOT Act is "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism 2. An Act of the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001 that dramatically reduced restrictions on law enforcement agencies' ability to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records; eased restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States; expanded the Secretary of the Treasury’s authority to regulate financial transactions, particularly those involving foreign individuals and entities; and made it easier for law enforcement and immigration authorities to detain and deport immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts. B.
According to O’Connor (2009) “The USA Patriot Act, for example, violates the First Amendment’s free speech guarantees by barring those who have been subject to search orders from telling anyone about those orders, even in situations where no need for secrecy can be proven. It also authorizes the FBI to investigate citizens who choose to exercise their freedom of speech with no need to prove that any parts of their speech might be labeled illegal”. I think if someone says something that would cause the FBI to investigate it than there must be something behind it. I don’t think the FBI would intentionally waste their own time investigating an
The First Amendment reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The First Amendment makes it legal to burn the American Flag. Lastly, flag burning should not be illegal because, if it were to be, Americans would have their right taken away. As Supreme Court Justice William Brennan stated, in a flag burning case, "Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so
USA Patriot Act of 2001 As a result of September 11th and the 2001 anthrax attacks, congress passed the USA Patriot act. It was developed as an effort to protect and prevent the society from in future foreign or domestic terrorist. Once the act was passed and put into place, people immediate noticed some possible limitations to the act. The USA Patriot act has some aspects that protect the people very well, while other aspects create more risk for the society. The USA Patriot act is a legislation passed by congress for stronger security controls ("USA patriot act," 2001).
What are the strengths and weaknesses of a distributed Homeland Security Intelligence production? Homeland Security is everyone working together is a concerted national effort by federal, states and all local governments, private sectors and all citizens in order to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism, and minimizing the damaged and recovering from any type of attack that does occur (Connor 2006). What that means is that homeland security is not a federal effort but partnership. State, local, and tribal law enforcement play a significant role in homeland security, and their intelligence functions support their hometown and the nation. After the terrorist attack of 9/11 several criticized the intelligence community for failing to warn about the terrorist attacks.
2013.) Living up to its name the USA PATRIOT Act is designed to allow and expand the use of the tools that the government feels necessary to intercept and obstruct terrorism. From my personal experience I don’t think the general public knows that most of these tools were already in place. There were just more structured and restrictive rules put into place to cover our