Not on a political level, or in a right wrong kind of way, just besides the basics, what does it do that might take me a little longer to research online? (reaseach paper + me = LAZY BUM)
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that phone calls coming into the country or leaving the country can be listened to in order to gather intell on people who want to murder. The government is welcome to listen to my calls if it will help get those scumbags. I am smart enough to always assume my calls can be listened in on and I am fine with this one. It's not really a slippery slope because we know when the Gov. has gone to far. Get the evil humans Uncle Sam and I will help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/patriot_act...
Puts governmental secrecy before the constitutional rights of our citizens...in a nutshell.
The idea is supposed to be good. Allow the government quick tools to combat terrorism.
However, any tool that treads on the constitution had better be well approved by the highest legal authority...and it really hasn't.
read 1984.
You know you could probably find actual text of Patriot Act. May be at websites for US congress or some other gov websites. Or even some other websites that talk about legal junk.
There's probably tons of discussion on it at websites like ACLU's websites. May be check out AEI or one of those 'think tanks' or whatever they're called.
You could do research comparing it to previous legislation. Alot of the things in it, that freak out the opponents of it, were in previous laws such as RICO and other organized crime laws.
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