Patriot Act Pros And Cons Essay
Let’s look at a few cons of the Patriot Act.
"Under the Patriot Act, law enforcement officials may have broad access to any record — academic, library, financial and medical — without probable cause of a crime.
The Patriot Act prohibits the holder of such information, like university librarians, from disclosing that they have produced such records, under the threat of imprisonment.
A University of Illinois survey of U.S. public libraries found that at least 545 libraries have been asked for records by law enforcement in the year after Sept. 11, 2001.
According to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions officers, about 200 colleges and universities have turned over student information to the FBI, INS …show more content…
The U.S. Government is grossly hypocritical on torture of prisoners.
In the case of POWs captured and held at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, an anonymous official said ‘We don’t kick the [expletive] out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the [expletive] out of them.’
The USA Patriot Act was rushed into law in the post-9/11 hysteria and with many congressional offices closed to the Anthrax scare. Many of the senators and representatives voting for it admitted they had not read the entire bill, but voted for it anyway…"
- Stop the PATRIOT Act II
CONS OF THE PATRIOT ACT: WAR ON THE PRESS
"Using many of the questionable surveillance and monitoring techniques that brought both questions and criticism to his administration, President George W. Bush has launched a war against reporters who write stories unfavorable to his actions and is planning to prosecute journalists to make examples of them in his "War on Terrorism.
Bush recently directed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to use "whatever means at your disposal" to wiretap, follow, harass and investigate journalists who have published stories about the administration's illegal use of warrant-less wiretaps, use of faulty intelligence and anything else he deems "detrimental to the War on
"Under the Patriot Act, law enforcement officials may have broad access to any record — academic, library, financial and medical — without probable cause of a crime.
The Patriot Act prohibits the holder of such information, like university librarians, from disclosing that they have produced such records, under the threat of imprisonment.
A University of Illinois survey of U.S. public libraries found that at least 545 libraries have been asked for records by law enforcement in the year after Sept. 11, 2001.
According to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions officers, about 200 colleges and universities have turned over student information to the FBI, INS …show more content…
The U.S. Government is grossly hypocritical on torture of prisoners.
In the case of POWs captured and held at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, an anonymous official said ‘We don’t kick the [expletive] out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the [expletive] out of them.’
The USA Patriot Act was rushed into law in the post-9/11 hysteria and with many congressional offices closed to the Anthrax scare. Many of the senators and representatives voting for it admitted they had not read the entire bill, but voted for it anyway…"
- Stop the PATRIOT Act II
CONS OF THE PATRIOT ACT: WAR ON THE PRESS
"Using many of the questionable surveillance and monitoring techniques that brought both questions and criticism to his administration, President George W. Bush has launched a war against reporters who write stories unfavorable to his actions and is planning to prosecute journalists to make examples of them in his "War on Terrorism.
Bush recently directed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to use "whatever means at your disposal" to wiretap, follow, harass and investigate journalists who have published stories about the administration's illegal use of warrant-less wiretaps, use of faulty intelligence and anything else he deems "detrimental to the War on