The USA PATRIOT ACT

Jose Ismael Coreas 

9/22/2016

Have you ever felt like you are been seen? 

 well you are being seen mostly every where you go but its for your own safety 

The Patriot Act allows investigators to use the tools that were already available to investigate organized crime and drug trafficking. Many of the tools the Act provides to law enforcement to fight terrorism have been used for decades to fight organized crime and drug dealers, and have been reviewed and approved by the courts.Before the Patriot Act, courts could permit law enforcement to conduct electronic surveillance to investigate many ordinary, non-terrorism crimes, such as drug crimes, mail fraud, and passport fraud. 

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2003/09/a_guide_to_the_patriot_act_part_3.html

Agents also could obtain wiretaps to investigate some, but not all, of the crimes that terrorists often commit.  Allows federal agents to ask a court for an order to obtain business records in national security terrorism cases. Examining business records often provides the key that investigators are looking for to solve a wide range of crimes. Investigators might seek select records from hardware stores or chemical plants, for example, to find out who bought materials to make a bomb, or bank records to see who's sending money to terrorists. 

The Patriot Act increased the penalties for those who commit terrorist crimes Americans are threatened as much by the terrorist who pays for a bomb as by the one who pushes the button. That's why the Patriot Act imposed tough new penalties on those who commit and support terrorist operations, both at home and abroad. In particular, the Act:

Prohibits the harboring of terrorists. The Act created a new offense that prohibits knowingly harboring persons who have committed or are about to commit a variety of terrorist offenses, such as: destruction of aircraft; use of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons; use of weapons of mass destruction; bombing of government property; sabotage of nuclear facilities; and aircraft piracy.

  As students we are reading the crucible in the crucible people were interrogated on the grounds of witchcraft. Though it was actually a satire of the Red Scare.The idea of the witch hunt reflects what was going on with the hunt for alleged communists. Or as it related to the patriot act - terrorists. Both situations are about finding scapegoats in order to temporarily relieve tensions in society and the way that other people do not respect others  privacy because in Salem since it was such a small town everybody knew everything about any body in the town especially if it is a bad situation.