1. The USA Patriot Act and the Violation of Human Rights
... the "War on Terror" affected foreign policy, he argues that "there is now an established literature on the flaws and limitations of the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 which grants unprecedented for homeland security agencies to invade the privacy of individual citizens on the slimmest circumstantial evidence, and with few mechanisms of accountability" (p. 26). Wilson's main argument is ... , as evidenced by the Patriot Act. This is an example of the overreach of the modern bureaucratic state, violating one of the fundamental human rights, which is the freedom of privacy. One of the most importa...
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