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Originally Posted by NCB
Exactly what rights have you personally lost since 9/11?
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If one person has lost civil liberties since 9/11 beacuse of the Patroit Act, isn't that enough?
The Patriot Act amends at least 15 separate federal laws, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/), the Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986 (
http://www.cpsr.org/issues/privacy/ecpa86), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (
http://www.panix.com/~eck/computer-fraud-act.html), and the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (
http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html).
The law permits roving wiretaps and so-called “sneak and peek” warrants, adds new terrorist crimes, knocks down the wall between foreign and domestic intelligence, amends the definition of domestic terrorism and makes many other changes too numerous to catalog.
This is already effecting people. Have you flown in the past few years? I have about a dozen times. 3 out of 12 times (reduced to 1/4 of the time for you math people) I have been taken aside to be searched more than everyone around me. Why? There doesn't have to be a reason why anymore. They can profile me all they want. Is it stopping terrorism? Studies say no. After the airport changes, a local news team went undercover and snuck weapons unto a plane at our local international airport. They had an Arab reporter sneak on several knives.