warrants that can be executed in other specified judicial district (US DOJ, July 2004). It was used to investigate members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad that were later indicted for conspiring to assist a foreign terrorist organization and to the man who, in 2003, drove a vehicle onto the National Mall in our country’s capital while threatening to detonate a bomb. Clearly people should see this as a victory that was only made possible by the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act allowed the government ways to investigate the group and people that couldn’t be done legally before. If the government were not allowed to investigate those people as thoroughly as they did the outcome of those men’s actions could have been more destruction to the country and possible lives lost.
It also created penalties for harboring terrorists, increased maximum sentences for terrorism related activities, and most importantly eliminated the statue of limitations for terrorist activities (Landahl, 2007). Even though the PATRIOT Act will remain controversial among the American citizens as a lot of people might not be comfortable giving up their privacy for homeland security, but the success of the PATRIOT Act and the provisions it allows authorities to carry out is apparent by the fact that there has been no terrorist attack on the homeland since the passing of the act in
A rival party of the La Familia cartel, The Knights Templar, has split from La Familia a few years ago and we believe that this is a major cause of the violent attacks in Mexico.” One of the disturbing results of these gang wars is that the locals are desperately looking out for shelter which will eventually become a problem for the local government. In the end they are responsible for the living conditions of the people. But the remaining question is: who’s responsible for this? Last year one of the ruthless Mexican drug lords known as La Barbie was arrested in New York. This man has an American background so the people started to wonder where it all went wrong.
What if the people who was supposed to protect you from danger were the ones who put you in it? What if 9/11, one of the most tragic days in America’s history, was caused by our own government? What if this was an inside job? Could our government have masterminded this horrific crime? Actually, I believe they did, I personally believe that the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and the crashing of Flight 93 does not accurately add up to it’s ashes.
Controversial acts were passed in an effort to control terrorism, the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was passed by George Bush shortly after 9/11 to make it easier for the government to access personal information like; phone conversations, emails, and other private information. It also gives them the power to detain anyone who they suspect of terrorism for up to one week. The freedoms and privacy of all Americans have been curtailed because of this act. Even though most Americans are not terrorists, simply knowing that the government has these new powers and abilities to invade on their privacy is bothersome
The key provisions will be identified along with their meanings to both governmental agencies and the average citizen. Section 203 (b) and (d) information sharing: allows information from criminal probes to be shared with intelligence agencies and other parts of the government. These provisions are at the heart of the effort to break down the barriers that used to separate criminal and intelligence investigations. The United States Justice Department has frequently blamed these barriers for the failure to find and detain September 11th hijackers prior to the attacks. CIA agents had information significantly prior to the attacks that some of the hijackers were in the United States and were suspected terrorists, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claims they did not receive the information until August
This was not the first time they had tried to attack the world trade centre. In 1993 February 26th a truck bomb exploded in a parking garage below the world trade centre. Six people were killed and more than 1000 people where injured. A Pakistani was eventually captured and convicted for the bombing as were several Egyptians. The FBI believe that these terrorists plan was too explode one of the towers and make it lean and fall onto the other tower to destroy them both to try and kill and total of 250,000 civilian deaths.
In an attempt to prepare for and prevent future acts of terror, the government implemented the USA PATRIOT Act on October 26, 2001. This act lessened the restrictions on law enforcement agencies in regards to their gathering of intelligence within the United States. The act also gives law enforcement officers the right to search a home or business without the owner’s or the occupant’s consent or knowledge. The act of making these clear violations of a person’s privacy was highly controversial but approved in the unremitting post 9/11 pursuit of justice. According to The Washington Post, more than 263 government organizations were either created or reorganized following the attacks.
By doing this the government is invading the citizens privacy. Not only does everyone in America have the right to privacy but every human being that is a citizen to any country in the United Nations. The NSA say that this program is strictly for finding terrorists and preventing any future terrorism attack it still bothers many people that nothing is private. The only reason that the NSA can perform these actions is because they are a government supported program. The privacy of millions of people can be violated because the government believes its right.
Hoover held the power of secrets of the U.S government for nearly 50 years. Black activists stirred up a drive to fight in the ghettos but militant protest scared the United States government. Edgar Hoover called on the FBI to rid of the vanguard (black activists) and keep an eye on the black community in his two track system. In 1967 the FBI launched a counter-intelligence program that targeted civil rights movement leaders and black power activists. Under his counter intelligence program nicknamed the COINTELPRO operation, Hoover unlawfully manipulated and tracked many black leaders.