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A 7 page paper which examines whether or not this policy violates civil liberties, discussing pros and cons. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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on September 11, 2001. In response to the most tragic act of terrorism in world history, the response of the Bush Administration was swift. First, a cabinet Office
of Homeland Security was established, under the leadership of former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, to develop programs and propose legislation to protect American citizens from future attacks on U.S. soil.
Unfortunately, while there has historically been a clear distinction made between domestic and foreign policies, the events of September 11 caused these two divergent areas to converge, and the
result has been conflict, debate and valid concerns about how the hastily drafted anti-terrorism policy, articulated in the USA Patriot Act (H.R. 3162) might violate the American civil liberties guaranteed
by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Act was overwhelmingly passed by the House of Representatives on October 24, by a vote of 357-66, by the Senate
on October 25, 98-1, and was signed by President George W. Bush on October 26 (Palmer, 2001, p. 2533). Two areas of particular concern in this aggressive pursuit of
terrorists has been the civil liberties of the right to receive due process of the law (the protection of "life, liberty and property") and the prohibition of any branch of
the U.S. government to conduct unlawful search and seizure investigations against private citizens. According to The USA Patriot Act, however, the
government, along with the FBI, should be allowed to actively pursue any suspected terrorist or terrorist group, utilizing whatever means are at their disposal to detain the suspect until questioning
is completed. NAACP Kweisi Mfume, somewhat surprisingly, supported this provision, explaining, "I recognize, like everybody else, the need to protect civil liberties... But at the same time, in order
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