01-15-2004, 11:55 PM
I just finished my paper and here it is:
The USA Patriot Act
Opening Statement
The USA Patriot Act passed on October 24, 2001, to provide a stronger defense against terrorism. Under closer study of the bill it is revealed to be no more than a sheet to cover up an overestimation and a lack of action from the US government. The USA Patriot Act was passed in a fearful response to the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center Towers in New York City. The government was scared when the terrorists are not after the people but after them. This act does good for the people but it does even more harm. People in this country do not like being watched and in a response to that the people will revolt.
This bill I agree will help our country but will cause our people to panic and riot against this. It causes discontent among the people and that leads to the hate of our government, to the hate of our country and what itâs supposed to stand for, and eventually the cultural downfall of our great country.
âMany of the new security measures proposed by our government in the name of fighting the "war on terror" are not temporary. They are permanent changes to our laws. Even the measures that, on the surface, appear to have been adopted only as long as the war on terror lasts could be with us indefinitely. Because, as Homeland Security director Tom Ridge himself has warned, terrorism is a "permanent condition to which America must . . . adjust." âAmerican Civil Liberties Union, January 29
Terrorism is a permanent thing that will remain with us as the scar that was imprinted on us all with the 9-11 attacks but what we do about it is not panic, but develop a decision. The main idea of terrorism not to destroy us but instead slowly decay our people with fear and tear at us with Malice of unreal proportions. The people think it is the government that is destroying it but it is the terror and violence. The people of our country do not realize this so they riot and protest in the streets. Terror is not to destroy our nation but to drive fear into us like a stake in the ground. The thing that our people want is to be happy. An unruly bill taking away our privacy cannot reach this. This is the 21st century and these terror organizations use encrypted channels that cannot be deciphered.
âIt is not just the judicial branch of government which oversees the application of Section 215. Section 215 also provides for congressional oversight of demands for records pursuant to the provisions of the Patriot Act. As noted correctly by Mr. Ayoub, the Department of Justice has recently reported that, to date, the FBI has used Section 215 "exactly zero times." That hardly represents a wholesale onslaught on the civil liberties of American citizens.â
Why donât the people of our country have a say in this act? This act is supposed to be to ensure liberty to the people in the USA. The fact is people donât like being watched and their privacy violated.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
â Abraham Lincoln,
â Taken From âThe Gettysburg Addressâ
Tell me what you guys think. I am not for the patriot act myself though.
The USA Patriot Act
Opening Statement
The USA Patriot Act passed on October 24, 2001, to provide a stronger defense against terrorism. Under closer study of the bill it is revealed to be no more than a sheet to cover up an overestimation and a lack of action from the US government. The USA Patriot Act was passed in a fearful response to the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center Towers in New York City. The government was scared when the terrorists are not after the people but after them. This act does good for the people but it does even more harm. People in this country do not like being watched and in a response to that the people will revolt.
This bill I agree will help our country but will cause our people to panic and riot against this. It causes discontent among the people and that leads to the hate of our government, to the hate of our country and what itâs supposed to stand for, and eventually the cultural downfall of our great country.
âMany of the new security measures proposed by our government in the name of fighting the "war on terror" are not temporary. They are permanent changes to our laws. Even the measures that, on the surface, appear to have been adopted only as long as the war on terror lasts could be with us indefinitely. Because, as Homeland Security director Tom Ridge himself has warned, terrorism is a "permanent condition to which America must . . . adjust." âAmerican Civil Liberties Union, January 29
Terrorism is a permanent thing that will remain with us as the scar that was imprinted on us all with the 9-11 attacks but what we do about it is not panic, but develop a decision. The main idea of terrorism not to destroy us but instead slowly decay our people with fear and tear at us with Malice of unreal proportions. The people think it is the government that is destroying it but it is the terror and violence. The people of our country do not realize this so they riot and protest in the streets. Terror is not to destroy our nation but to drive fear into us like a stake in the ground. The thing that our people want is to be happy. An unruly bill taking away our privacy cannot reach this. This is the 21st century and these terror organizations use encrypted channels that cannot be deciphered.
âIt is not just the judicial branch of government which oversees the application of Section 215. Section 215 also provides for congressional oversight of demands for records pursuant to the provisions of the Patriot Act. As noted correctly by Mr. Ayoub, the Department of Justice has recently reported that, to date, the FBI has used Section 215 "exactly zero times." That hardly represents a wholesale onslaught on the civil liberties of American citizens.â
Why donât the people of our country have a say in this act? This act is supposed to be to ensure liberty to the people in the USA. The fact is people donât like being watched and their privacy violated.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
â Abraham Lincoln,
â Taken From âThe Gettysburg Addressâ
Tell me what you guys think. I am not for the patriot act myself though.