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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 3 page contention that the provisions of the Patriot Act step well beyond the rights afforded by the U.S. Constitution. The
author of this paper questions whether it is fair to sentence a meth producer twelve years to life when under laws written to govern such
criminals six months is the typical or to find applications for the penalty provisions of this Act just because prosecutors want to take down a
high-profile businessman? Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPterPtr.rtf
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process at a time when our concerns were at an all-time high in regard to the perceived terrorist threat. On September 11, 2001 the Twin Towers of the World
Trade Center in New York had just disintegrated before our eyes as a result of a terrorist plane attack and even the Pentagon had been attacked. Just a few
years earlier, in 1993, we had witnessed another attack on the Twin Towers as well. Americans and politicians alike were shocked at the terrorist potential. We had finally
been awakened to the fact that our national boundaries were no longer exempt from terrorist attack. One of the results of that awareness was the Patriot Act.
In theory, the Patriot Act is designed to protect our country and its citizens from repeats of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. In practice, the
Patriot Act is an even more dangerous attack. It is an attack on the very premises upon which this country is founded. Section 15 of the Act technically
allows representatives of the federal government to: "march into libraries to demand records of books
that targeted individuals have checked out...to inspect records held by third parties, financial records, travel records, medical records, library records, without the knowledge or consent of the targeted individual". (Robinson,
2003). Wire taps on our phones, monitoring of our library and Internet use, and even
the ability of government officials to our home without a warrant, analyze the contents of the hard drives of our computers, and leave without ever informing us that they had
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