The USA PATRIOT ACT, commonly known as the Patriot Act, is an acronym for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate tools required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001. On October 23, 2001, Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner introduced H.R. 3162 incorporating provisions from a previously sponsored House bill and a Senate bill also introduced earlier in the month. The next day on October 24, 2001, the Act passed the House 357 to 66, with Democrats comprising the overwhelming
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The USA PATRIOT ACT, commonly known as the Patriot Act, is an acronym for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate tools required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001. On October 23, 2001, Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner introduced H.R. 3162 incorporating provisions from a previously sponsored House bill and a Senate bill also introduced earlier in the month. The next day on October 24, 2001, the Act passed the House 357 to 66, with Democrats comprising the overwhelming
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is stating that the majority of the people seem to find that their safety is of uttermost concern, and one could say possibly even more than their liberties. The United States government is always tasked with having to balance between providing more security for the people and less liberties or more liberties and less security. Both security and liberty do not always have to be opposing factors for one another, but they often are, as they are always trading off with each other. There has of course
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america by providing appropriate tools required to intercept and obstruct terrorism act of 2001.” The Patriot Act is a U.S law that was passed just after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Its goals were to strengthen domestic security and broaden the powers of law-enforcement agencies with regards to identifying and stopping terrorists. This act is divided into 10 basic parts. Part one states the protection of civil liberties and authorizes the secret service to create a nationwide crime task
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Constitution Lawrence Olson February 29, 2016 The topic I am going to cover in this paper is Privacy Rights. The one thing I will cover is the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism or the USA Patriot Act. This Act has caused numerous concerns over the years of the federal government over stepping their bounds on their tactics of intelligence gathering after the terrorist attacks on September eleventh two thousand and eleven
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I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism-a human being is exercising extremism in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner – Malcolm X Extremism: The New Patriotism The recent rise of Islamic extremism on the international stage has alarmed many individuals around the world. Theories about the cause of its rapid and often time’s violent expansion have
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The final chapter in this book discusses the war on terror. The war on terror is focused on because, according to author Joycelyn Pollock, it is the largest issue facing our country today. The chapter begins by discussing 9/11 and the counter-terrorism measures the United States took as a result of the terrorist attack. With almost 3,000 people dying, the government began taking action and stepping up homeland security through detaining people, using private prisons in foreign countries, torturing
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individual liberties and violate personal privacy and in a manner that is unsupervised. Author tone The tone of the author is worried in second paragraph line 1 till 4 (Yes, i worry about potential government abuse of privacy from a programme designed to prevent another 9/11). Beside that , he also show the same expression in fourth paragraph line 1-2 (i worry about that even more).But in fourth paragraph line 3-4 , the tone of the author is caring (not because i don’t care about civil liberties, but
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ANTITERRORISM United States Anti-Terrorism Abstract There has been allot of debate regarding the war on terrorism. The most controversial debate is of the PATRIOT Act and if it violates civil rates. There are several topics that need to be addressed in order to justify the initiation of the PATRIOT Act. It is obvious that this Act has kept American’s safe since its existence, but we have to see how long our safety last without it. US Anti-Terrorism The US Government has to protect American’s
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overwhelmingly threatened in the name of the national security. In this way, not only a sacrifice of pure civil liberties comes along but precautionary measures are taking place in the form of preventive wars as well. These wars are supposed to constitute anti-terrorism measures. Basic human rights experience vague violation and this solely effect does not comprise a form of fundamental anti-terrorism measures. A vast number of innocent civilians is being enforced to embrangle in situations that are
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