"The USA Patriot Act and other actions that expanded the powers of the executive branch in matters of national security are necessary to protect the citizens of the United States from foreign and domestic threats."
I do not agree with this statement what so ever, this act is not necessary or needed in anyway. This act goes above and beyond invading other persons personal privacy that they have a right to keep to them self's. it is not right to the cite zens. it its unfair and unconstitutional to go through ones personal privacy with out having reasonable suspicion. this act and the ways that they are taking care of things is just over all wrong every way to try and solve the problem so far is reading through peoples personal privacy, recording them on camera without them knowing, scanning their things on the Internet ETC. and as we see from the movie "Spying on the Home Front" no result comes out of this besides angry americans not agreeing what the government does and will no longer want to support the government in what they do.
Privay is important but i feel that safety is more of a concern then anything else your record has to say. Unless you look suspicious then i think the CIA might possibly look through your stuff and when they find nothing then they wont be worried about you anymore.
I agree with Mike, privacy is important, but safety is definitely more of a concern. Looking through innocent people's data, to find things that stand out as terrorism acts, does not affect the innocent people. Anything that could bring them closer to catching a terrorist is a good thing.
Personally i would rather have my personal life violated to save american lives. Even if its not someone i know personally or myself as a victim of terrorism. My personal Info and what im doing is not as important as someone elses life.
*citizens :) but i agree with you
I agree with most of the things but i think its okay to give up a little freedom to save lives in america.
Oh and BTW its citizens NOT cite zens
No y give up even more to the government and make them even more powerfull than they already are?
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We are giving up privacy for a greater good so that american lives can be saved.
But at what point in time have you seen this system work to save any of our lives?
Go look up your facts the system has saved lives and caught terrorists. HA
I would love to see the link you found Showing that any of these programs have saved a life in the US! in this day and age. GOOD LUCK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act_Terrorist_Exclusion_List This is the list that the patriot act has and now when any of these people enter the US the government can identify the people and catch them.
I do agree with you when you say it invades peoples personal lives but I defentaly disagree when you say it has no purpose at all, the purpose is to keep us safe.
I agree with Molly, the patriot act is a litle invasive, but it does keep us safe and its worth the trade off in my opinion.
they arent going to bother anyone if they arent doing anything wrong.
I agree with Molly, there's definitely a purpose. The Gov. wouldn't spend time carfully going trough tons of files, if there wasn't a purpose. The purpose is to do anything they can to catch a lead and keep us safe.
I'm worried that Americans feel giving a little freedom away for the purpose of safety is acceptable. The government often has used fear to lessen our liberties. Think about the Japanese Americans during WWII. They were imprisoned falsely to protect our country.
I agree completely. The government doesnt just get the right to be so big as to be able to search through our lives. If we give them these powers now, wont they just exect to keep getting more power to invade our right and the cycle will never stop,
I never really thought about the whole WWII thing.. That is kind of scary since thinking someone is a terrorist is so much easier if anyone does the least-bit suspicious things now
why should we allow terrorist to walk around our country free when we could get them by collecting data. we for the most part give the government the power to collect data in the constituion because they are using it to protect us from terrorist. if your not a terrorist its not going to really affect you. it not like they are going to be looking at your data for no reason they may collect it but its not really going to be viewed unless you say or do something that trigger there attention.