Should the Patriot Act Should the Patriot Act be Repealed?be Repealed?

Should the Patriot Act Be Should the Patriot Act Be RepealedRepealed

Rosenzweig, Paul, et al. The Patriot Act. Ed. Lauri S. Friedman. Flemington  Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2006.

Should the Patriot Act Be Should the Patriot Act Be Repealed?Repealed?

“Generally, everything’s that’s been done in the Patriot Act has been helpful… while at the same time maintaining balance with respect to civil liberties.” –Former Attorney General Janet Reno in an address to the 9/11 commission

The Patriot Act The Patriot Act Doesn’t Efficiently Doesn’t Efficiently

Fight TerrorismFight Terrorism

Patriot Doesn’t Fight Patriot Doesn’t Fight TerrorismTerrorism

• “We have had the power to stop these terrorists. We have had sufficient money to have done so. We have simply made mistakes and errors in judgment…”- Bob Barr

• What was asked for was not narrowly tailored, limited, or designed to correct the provisions of existed laws that needed change

Pre-Patriot Laws AdequatePre-Patriot Laws Adequate

Patriot Act in response to 9/11

Illegal commercial aircraft guns

Illegally in country Fake Id’s Knowledge of aircrafts

through federal law breach

Rosenzweig, Paul, et al. The Patriot Act. Ed. Lauri S. Friedman. Flemington  Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2006.

Excuse to Grant Federal Excuse to Grant Federal PowersPowers

Federal agencies request funding/power Changes to wiretapping laws Search and seizure changes Easier access to tangible evidence All futile attempts to profile terrorists CIA unclassified report in 2001 – “…

terrorists take great pains to avoid being profiled: they don’t want to be caught, and in fact it is essentially impossible to profile terrorists…”

Better Law EnforcementBetter Law Enforcement

Providing bureaucrats and federal agencies access to more information does not aid enforcement

The Patriot Act The Patriot Act Efficiently Fights Efficiently Fights

TerrorismTerrorism

Patriot Act Fights TerrorismPatriot Act Fights Terrorism

Helps officers dismantle terror calls in various parts of country

Has prosecuted over 400 terrorists

Intelligence agencies were limited in search warrant for surveillance

FBI and CIA are still required a search warrant from court

Helps Extend and Distribute Helps Extend and Distribute PowerPower

Helps extend FBI power for record searches

Search warrants allows to secretly search homes and offices

Assisted in prosecution of Al Queda’s drugs and weapons involving antiaircraft missiles

Prosecuted Enaam Arnaout, the #2 mastermind behind 9/11

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Stops Terrorists PlotsStops Terrorists Plots

Makes it easier and legal to obtain information via phone companies and internet services providers

Email and cell phone terrorist plots have been foiled

Over 20 terrorists acts targeted at Seattle, Buffalo, and Detroit have been stopped

CIA has benefited in surveillance activities

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Effectively StoppedTerroristsEffectively StoppedTerrorists

It has charged at least 310 defendants with criminal offenses, 179 of them have been convicted.

Gives reasonable ways to strengthen intelligence and law enforcement against sworn enemies while doing no damage to traditional liberties.

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Effectively Stopped Terrorists Effectively Stopped Terrorists (Continued)(Continued)

The Patriot Act revise outdated rules that fatally hampered surveillance of suspected terrorists in America.

Also, more than 100 other individuals have been convicted or pled guilty to terrorists related crime.

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Stopped Future AttacksStopped Future Attacks

Ever since the September 11th attacks, there has not yet been another mass terrorist attack on our homeland.

Stopped terrorist threatening at John F. Kennedy Airport

This has resulted in increased airport security

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The Patriot Act The Patriot Act Infringes of Citizens’ Infringes of Citizens’ Constitutional RightsConstitutional Rights

Fourth Amendment ViolationFourth Amendment Violation

“…unreasonable searches and seizures…”

“….shall not be violated…”

“….No warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause…”

Violation of Students’ RightsViolation of Students’ Rights

1974 FERPA Students’ personal

information Politically volatile topics Threatens educational

freedoms Threatens diversity of

social/political debates Threatens free thought

Violation of Citizens’ RightsViolation of Citizens’ Rights

American Citizens have been put in jail

Foreign Power is an excuse for no search warrants

Banks, colleges, hotels, hospitals, and credit card companies being searched

Bush calls it “Enemy Combatant”

The Patriot Act The Patriot Act Doesn’t Infringe on Doesn’t Infringe on

Constitutional Constitutional RightsRights

Maintains Constitutional Maintains Constitutional PowerPower

Organization groups are required to get a court order

Does not violate any constitutional powers

Only surveillance potential suspects Allows to access an individual’s

personal but only after an appeal to a judge

Surveillance has been done only in war situations

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An Act of WarAn Act of War

The majority of Congress believe it’s necessary in war

Terrorists groups such as al-Qaida have been stopped

The enemy is present in America where the threats are biggest

Homeland security power had limited power for FB I and law enforcement agencies

Most of change in the law resulted to stop terror strikes before they occurred

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Doesn’t Violate Personal Doesn’t Violate Personal InformationInformation

Information is found about terrorist attacks before they happen.

DNA would be put into “terrorist’s identification databases”

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The Patriot Act The Patriot Act Doesn’t Unfairly Doesn’t Unfairly

Targets ImmigrantsTargets Immigrants

Looking Out For the Common Looking Out For the Common PersonPerson“Fighting terrorism is like being a

goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that the people remember is the one that gets by.” –Paul Wilkinson, London Daily Telegraph

“Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.”-Jacques Chirac

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Protection of Potential AttacksProtection of Potential Attacks

“This was not an act of terrorism but act of war.”-President George W. Bush

Another terrorist attack would be an even bigger catastrophes

Government doesn’t want another World War

Many potential attacks that were threatened have been stopped under the Act

More privacy under the Act in investigations

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The Patriot Act The Patriot Act Unfairly Targets Unfairly Targets

ImmigrantsImmigrants

Necessary for SafetyNecessary for Safety

Revised outdated rules that fatally hampered surveillance of suspect terrorist’s in America

Track non-immigrant visitors from high-risk Middle Eastern countries

The feds have busted 20 suspected al Qaeda cell members

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Targets Immigrants FreedomTargets Immigrants Freedom

Laws immigration provisions have been abused

Patriot Act punishes speech, and authorizes the use of secret evidence

Foreign students have fewer

privileges than US classmates

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Immigrants Being Immigrants Being Discriminated Discriminated

Government deported an Indian man because he set up a tent for prayer and food

Tariq Ramadan got Visa taken away for something he said

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Tariq RamadanTariq Ramadan

““Desperate Times call for Desperate Times call for Desperate Measures…”Desperate Measures…”