It strips American citizens of all of their rights and grants the government and its private agents total immunity. ... Along with public databases such as library records, the new Act attacks private sectors such as medical databases, hence altering the Patient's Bill of Rights. According to Section 126, the government is granted the right to mine the entire spectrum of public and private sector information from bank records to educational and medical records. This is the enacting law to allow ECHELON and the Total Information Awareness Network to break down any and all walls of privacy....

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In other words the government has the ability and legal right to weaken any secure private network by installing a secret pathway into a private system and accessing that system with its own password. ... Since the Patriot act the Government ceased public immigration hearings and also withheld "sensitive information" by either removing the information from government web sites or just not informing the public. This is an attack on our freedom of information. ... If a person does have something they want to keep private it's none of my business and neither the governments. ... Hu...

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Where before it was illegal to intercept private telephone calls, it now says it is illegal to intercept private computer transmissions. ... In Virginia there is a law that became effective July 1, 1996 that prohibits state employees, including employees of state colleges and universities, from using state-owned or leased computer equipment to "access, download, print or store any information infrastructure files or services having sexually explicit content," except with the express permission of their agency head for "a bona fide, agency-approved research project or other agency-approved unde...

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This guarantees citizens of The United States a reasonable expectation of privacy for private belongings and protection against harassment from government officials invading personal property without a search warrant. ... Under the Patriot Act, without probable cause or reasonable suspicion, the government can issue NLTs to any public entity in order to gather private information about an individual. ... The Fifth Amendment in the Bill of Rights guarantees citizens of The United States the following: no one will be tried for the same crime twice, the right to due process if deprived of li...

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In sections 201 and 202 the government says it has the " authority to intercept wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism, computer fraud and abuse offenses" and may if they find it necessary, have the "authority to share criminal investigative information" with anyone, including other regular American citizens, as outlined in Section 203. ... This proves that the Patriot Act is clearly unconstitutional in that it gives authorities the power to invade and/or wiretap an individual's private living quarters for any reason at any given time without a warrant (as defined...

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Some of the facts were that the police with the Laguna beach police department received information that the respondent might be trafficking narcotics. ... Their contents are not any less private, and the respondent's desire to discard them in the manner in which he did does not diminish his expectation of privacy. ... The aspects and secrets of our private lives are concealed in out trash bags. ... It deprives people of life, because their life could be ruined by having to spend it in jail, because they couldn't defend themselves, and their private property is exposed. ...

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Due to legislation passed in 1938, President Roosevelt had the power to regulate the kind of information the media had access to. This legislation allowed the President to deem certain photographs, sketches, or maps of military bases as security risks, in addition to providing the President with "the authority to define which types of military information needed security protection" (Sweeney). ...

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The founders of the United States government tried to protect our liberty by assuring a free press, to gather and publish information without being under control or power of another, in the First Amendment to the Constitution. ... In these societies, the government censors views that are not in line with their policies, controlling controversial opinions on television, in newspapers, and even in public or private meetings. ...

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The Executive director of Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut and its medical director, a licensed physician, were convicted as accessories for giving married persons information and medical advice on how to prevent conception and , following examination, prescribing a contraceptive device or material for the wife's use. ... The sate failed to demonstrate that couples did not possess a right to make private decisions as to when and how many children they would have. ...

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In addition, expanded government surveillance allows the FBI to demand information from third parties. ... This means that law enforcement cannot enter an individual's private property and search the premises. ... PR/TT limited the FBI from receiving anything more than "transactional and addressing information". ... In regards to the Internet, they can monitor websites, online purchases and read registration information (ACLU). ... For instance, the FBI can receive information that reveals which books an individual has borrowed or purchased. ...

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For example, in 1993 the ATF received information that the Branch Davidians in Waco, TX had assembled large supplies of firearms. ... Americans need to pay close attention to the efforts of powerful people in the government and private institutions that believe it is their duty to restrain offensive language with speech codes or bans on certain kinds of behavior. ...

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The two men claimed the intimate nature of the conduct at issue, when engaged in by consenting adults in private, is beyond the scope of governmental interference. ... However, as this case surfaced, interests groups urged the Supreme Court to hear the case as well as submit an "amicus curiae" briefs, document that often provides the Court valuable information about legal arguments or how the case might affect people other than the parties to the case, in this case, that all homosexuals should be protected under the 14th Amendment and afforded equality to heterosexuals under the law. ...

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Terrorism has been a term that has long been a definition and example of daily life of other countries in our world for a dramatic period of time. But to the United States of America, this term was something that most citizens of this great country took for granted and felt confident that they would...

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Two of our most fundamental rights granted under the constitution are the right of due process of law, and the right to counsel: Amendment V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of ...

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Presently, about 192 million firearms are privately owned in the US. ... Due to the program, tens of thousands of people have been reached and educated about safeguarding their private information, cars, homes, and traveling via 2,300 volunteer instructors, 20 percent of whom are law enforcement officers***. ...

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n Myths10 America Is the most powerful country in the world, living in a dream? Well, ten of America's most widely know phrases; four of what we know as liberties, are myths. The American dream, just that a dream. Individualism, I am me, is something of the past. America's melting pot that is...

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They could always cry, "libel- if the press got wind of their behavior The purpose of the lawsuit against The New York Times, as Lewis states, was to change the libel laws and repair the reputation of a private party. ... It had to show that The New York Times had knowledge that the information was false and still proceeded to publish the ad. ...

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Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as the guardians of the United States Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity. In the light of the following documents and your knowledge of the 1820s and 1830s. To what extent do you agree with the Jacksonian...

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