What do you think of the patriot act?

Question

I've been readint it but i'm not even half way through it, can anyone give me an overview of it? liberal or conservative points of view, pro and cons, thank you.

Answer 1

The USA Patriot Act clamps down on:

FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: Government may monitor religious labor, and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity, to assist terror investigation.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records requests.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation.
RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION: Government may monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.
FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCHES: Government may search and seize Americans' personal records, business documents and telephone/internet activity without probable cause to assist terror investigation.
RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.

RIGHT TO LIBERTY: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront the witnesses against them.

While many Americans were led by the Bush administration to believe that the Patriot Act was solely directed at foreign nationals in the U.S. who may pose a military threat to citizens and property (specifically people of Southwest Asian and North African descent--a version of racial profiling), it swiftly emerged that the actual day-to-day targets of the Patriot Act were U.S. citizens and legal aliens. Overwhelmingly, they have suffered the abuses of federal police policies which have led to public humiliation, invasion of personal privacy, intimidation, movement control and monitoring, capricious arrest and detention, and denial of legal remedy in the court system.

This document will demonstrate the following:

The USA Patriot Act was not necessarily a response to the September 11, 2001 Massacre, but an anti-civil liberties agenda that has gray whiskers, which found political life in the fear and confusion that followed September 11, 2001.


The USA Patriot Act targets the civil liberties of Americans, and effectively stifles domestic political dissent, religious freedom and labor union activism. It also promotes racial profiling as federal government policy.


City and county governments can play a leading role in the popular movement to resist and repeal the USA Patriot Act and all legislation and Executive Orders that violate the Bill of Rights.


SEDITION OR SEDATION

In an ironical twist of history, the federal government, once viewed as the guardian of constitutional values against the political caprice of local governments--especially in the South--is now the chief promoter of repressive extra-constitutional police policies, primarily based upon race, religion and national origin, or perceived sympathy for proscribed categories of citizens and legal aliens.

Answer 2

It was a knee-jerk paranoid reaction that drastically reduced the requirement for the government to respect people's privacy.

While that may have been fine in the days and weeks immediately following 9/11, it's long past time that the country stop hiding under the covers, face the reality that terrorists have always been around and always will be around, and stop acting like a little baby who is afraid of the dark.

If we are going to continue to call ourselves the land of the free and the home of the brave, it's time we start acting like it again.

Answer 3

Andy g has not read it, (like most of the Congress or Senate), or he has and has no interest in preserving the republic of the United States or the freedoms and liberties Americans were used to.

The USA PATRIOT act is a treasonous attack on the constitution and Bill of Rights.

BTW, Seeing as how you Americans are not using your constitution anymore, Could we europeans have it? It's a darn site better than anything we have been able to come up with.

Answer 4

hell no Progressivism is the situation. it is the action of attempting to repair what isn’t broke and interior the approach completely breaking it. I optimistic felt freer before all the do good liberals stepped in and desperate to keep me from myself whilst all they actually had to do to keep usa became to end corrupting it and ruining it interior the 1st place. Had they only committed suicide instead then we would all nonetheless be loose. What they have executed is unforgivable. they have waged racial McCarthyism on the traditional Joe and declared each undesirable white guy a racist until shown in any different case, stepped throughout our freedoms, stepped throughout our freedom of religion and gave us a clean faith in it is place that demands entire obedience. What we've right this is the snobby elitist enlightened wealthy liberals actual forcing their faith/perception device on us and making us an grant we will not refuse. they are persecuting the undesirable. apart from no longer in basic terms are they forcing their ideals on us and not letting us have the alternative of refusing it. they are additionally removing each little thing from us on the comparable time. we will not also have a rustic with borders or they say we are Nazis basically with the aid of fact we decide for borders and the preserve feeling that is composed of understanding that we are nonetheless a loose and sovereign us of a. And for that we are Nazis? i thought we had the constitutional top to experience risk-free and preserve in our very own us of a. you be responsive to who the Nazis are? wealthy, Little white ******* liberals.THAT"S WHO!

Answer 5

I think it's just another sham to secretly (deceptively) strip away Americans rights and call it Protecting the American Public.

This is a dictatorship disguised as a democracy

Answer 6

I think it is great. If you are against it you must have something to hide.