Anonymous: Protective Citizens Not Domestic Terrorists

One of the most controversial policies to pass legislation within the United States congress with the approval of our president at the time, George W. Bush, was the USA PATRIOT Act. The USA PATRIOT Act is actually a acronym for the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. This Act reduced the restrictions, which now allowed the law the power to search various electronic communications records as well as medical and financial records. It also enabled fewer restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering, broadened the immigration enforcement laws to allow them to more easily detain and deport immigrants suspected of involvement with

The Patriot Act of 2001 has in many ways changed the way that acts of terrorism and other crimes related to terrorism are handled within the Federal system. The Patriot Act in many ways unites under one law code a few different important clauses relating to tools available to federal law enforcement and also to the new more pressed penalties for terrorist acts. The entire act within itself provides law enforcement a new set of measures and procedures to combating terrorist on the financial field as well as the domestic home front. The most basic of tools that many law enforcement agencies have took advantage of were with the passing of the Patriot Act of 2001 becoming newly available to that of federal investigatory

The American people, including many big corporations such as Apple, disagree with the government collecting the personal information of the American people. President, Barack Obama, stated that intelligence committees and all congress members were briefed on the Patriot Act and its contents (Obama). The congressmen knew what the Patriot Act did involving the personal commutations in the United States. Nevertheless, the Patriot act was voted into being a law almost unanimously in the senate, 98-1, and 357-66 in the House of Representatives (Patriot Act). When Ed Snowden leaked that the NSA was obtaining personal information and how it was handled, the American people became shocked and outraged towards the government, and created a tension from the American people towards the government.

Ever since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 the patriot act was launched, but tragically failed, so could the patriot act be threatening your liberty and your rights as a citizen or could it be reducing terrorism and making the world a safer place?.

Although the main concern of this case had to do with Computin and protecting national security, Shelton can also technically be charged for possessing marijuana since it is illegal under federal law. However, it is important to look at how the FBI kept surveillance on him and the questionable manner in which they entered and searched his apartment. Shelton does have substantial grounds on which he can move to suppress the evidence of marijuana against him; however, there is no guarantee that he will be successful in court.

On October 26, 2001, a law was signed into congress by George W. Bush known as the Patriot Act. The initial purpose of the act was to monitor terrorist like activity that could happen on U.S. soil and that could affect the way of the American life. Although its sole purpose was to monitor suspect activity, it gives citizens little to no privacy. In Martin Letter from Birmingham Jail, he explains how he believed that a just laws should follow the code of ethics. However, this law is the farthest from having morals or being ethical, it’s used to invaded the privacy of U.S. citizen. The USA Patriot Act is an unjust law, it violates the right to freedom and abuses the right to have privacy, and it can lead to unlawful consequences.

DHS's primary tasks are to foster the sharing of foreign and domestic intelligence information between federal, state, and local intelligence and law enforcement agencies and improve border security. This has important implications in terms of personal privacy.

The September 11 terrorist attacks led to the Patriot Act, which was a law passed just six weeks after the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were hit. This Act was passed by the Senate the day before by a vote of 98-1. The Bush Administration considered this Act a form of "anti-terrorism weapon."* Despite his opinion many citizens consider this Act unconstitutional and a violation of our rights. In addition, some felt that their privacy was being invaded and soon coming to an end. On the other-hand some consider this Act reasonable due to the safety it would bring the citizens because many lives are threatened here in America. The Patriot Act expands the powers of the Executive Branch, such as search, surveillance, and INS powers

After the devastating attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, this country scrambled to take action to provide future protection. New techniques had to be developed to protect the nation from the menace of terrorism. Along with the new techniques came the decision to enact laws that some believed crossed the threshold of violating civil liberties this county and those living in it were guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. “On October 26, 2001, the Public Law 107-56, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, also known as the USA Patriot Act, was signed into effect” (Stern, 2004, p. 1112). While speaking to Congress,

Also, the author explains these groups have found a hole in the Cyber law. Since they are not showing any signs of cyber terrorism and they have an unknown number of people the US government cannot convict them. This means that Congress has to find a way to rewrite the laws, which were written in 1986, so they can take this case to court. This article concludes by stating these hacking collectives are not a threat to the security of the US and the government should consider hiring

Much of public protest in recent Western society has been typified by a decidedly social character—that is, the social movement—the likes of which has occurred on an unprecedented scale in the 20th century. In Gabriella Colman's 2013 paper “Anonymous in Context: The Power and Politics Behind the Mask”, she identifies the group Anonymous to work within these paradigms while acting entirely outside customary limits on candour. Through their absolute commitment to freedom in the face of tyranny—and lulz in response to dictators and oligarchs—Anonymous is a definite force of good against evil, and their intentions a net positive to the world.

Throughout history, America has been confronted by opponents who wish to challenge its sovereignty. Over time, these challenges have been coined terrorism, and those that engage in terrorism have been known as terrorists. While allowing terrorism to thrive is an option that the leader of the free world rejects, the effects of combatting terrorism can appear to be just as damaging. As times have evolved, so has this threat of terrorism; with the evolution of terror comes the evolution of methodology in combating terror. Since its development, the nation’s rivals have campaigned to disrupt the American way of life, and though written in the Constitution, it is understandable to reason that these liberties American citizens hold so dearly must be suspended in order to successfully combat the nature of today’s threat from terror. Prevention of terror is vital in today’s age. Terrorism has plagued the nation and in an effort to prevent such acts, the nation has embraced the belief of infringing upon civil liberties in an effort to safeguard its borders from terrorism in America in the name of national security.

September 11, 2001. 19 terrorists killed 2,976 people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Over 400 police officers and firefighters lost their lives trying to rescue people from the World Trade Center (Encyclopædia Britannica). The firefighters and police officers could only do so much to save the people. Senators and Representatives realized the incredible risk of future attacks and took action. The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (Encyclopædia Britannica), more commonly known as the Patriot Act, was their response. The Patriot Act gives more powers to law enforcement agencies for investigating and abating terrorist attacks (Encyclopædia

Anonymous is a hacking group that is like a law against the law. They have hacked into a news channel in 2015 and 2016. Sometimes they stand up to bullies. But they usually try to stay unknown so they wear masks. The mask has a robotic face with a mustache that is smiling and the eyes had holes in them so you could see their eyes and you can move the mouth think a puppet. They will do anything to get more people to join them. In every sentence they start out by saying we are anonymous to remind everyone who they are. The things that they do is probably just too get more attention. They are so well known that people try to pretend to be anonymous to either scare people or prank people. There are videos on youtube of grown men or teenagers trolling

A huge issue in our society in the past few years has been whether or not a person on a suspected terrorist watch list should have their Second Amendment rights restricted or not. People have been arguing back and forth on the topic laying out the pros and cons. Some individuals believe it is a right for a person to own a firearm. Others think rights to own a gun should be taken away from people suspected of terrorism. There are many other things that could be done to better our country. Restricting the Second Amendment rights of suspected terrorists is not a great idea because everyone has the right to own a firearm, this will not change anything, and the list is supposed to be private.