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Anti Transportation Security Agency ( Tsa )

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After losing 2,977 lives one fateful September morning, we realized we left the doors to our country wide open to attack. As a result, we ramped up our security and instituted new programs to combat terrorism to make ourselves invulnerable to similar attacks. But as the government began to develop programs within the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) to prevent such an attack from ever happening again, the government began to infringe on the rights which were laid down in the Constitution by our founding fathers. Although the American government protected its people from another possible attack, the government itself attacked its own people by denying the rights which it formerly recognized. Traditionally speaking, the government realizes every person has unalienable rights, but it may choose to only recognize those which it deems fit. In times of war, many rights which we feel are inherent may not be acknowledged. For example during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus allowing for public dissenters of the war to be arrested and held without formal charges to prevent antiwar sentiment, and more recently the USA PATRIOT (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) Act instituted shortly after 11 Sep 01 expanded the government’s power to monitor its citizens and to catch another terrorist before another attack occurred (“Patriot

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