Criminology Counterrorism the USA Patriot Thesis

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These liberties are those on which this country was formed and have been upheld for many years as absolute certainties.

The Patriot Act has put a lot of doubt on whether these liberties are still protected guarantees. With this act giving the Government the power to use wiretaps to spy on people, search warrants to look for things that they don't even have to tell you about and the ability to look at ones private computer records it makes you wonder what this country is coming to. How is it that we the people have allowed it to come to this? What has happened to the guts on which this country was built? Back then this type of act would never have been passed and put into practice. Although it can be argued that this is because times are so much different now than they were back in the day, I wonder if they really are.

The people in this country have always been fighting some type of domination.

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When this country was formed it was England and their ability to tax us with out letting us participate in the government. In the era of the World War I and II it was the domination of other country's political powers. During the cold war it was who have the bigger nuclear arsenal. And now it's the domination of our own government in regards to our privacy. The difference this time is that we are being dominated by a Government that was created on the very principle that its citizens would have the right to privacy and yet they have somehow managed to takes some of these rights away from us and nobody even knows how it happened......

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