Homeland Security Policy The US Patriot Act

Question: Discuss about analysis of US Patriot Act? Answer: The US Patriot Act (USPA) was passed by the Congress after the terrorist attacks of 11th September, 2001. This act enabled the federal officers greater influence in the tracking and interception of the communications (Smith, 2003). Thos would support the law enforcement as well as the benefit of the foreign intelligence. It is also vested with the duty to regulate the corruption of US financial institutions for foreign money laundering, to close the borders to foreign terrorists and to detain the terrorist within the borders. The Act also puts forward new crimes, penalties and procedural techniques to use it against the domestic and the international terrorists (Best, Richard, Jr. (June 22, 2010)). The main purpose of the act is to prevent and punish the terrorist activities in the United States and the rest of the world. The other purposes that are included in this act are: The Act aims to assess the measurement of the US to detect and prosecute the financial laundering on terrorism. The Act also scrutinizes the foreign jurisdiction, foreign financial institutions and different kinds of financial transactions done in the international level to prevent criminal abuse. The Act aims to stop the use of the financial system of US by the corrupt officials for the personal gains and repatriation of stolen assets from the citizens. The attack on the September 11th was a fatal incident that hindered the human rights and the human security. This is because this incident killed innocent people and also the people had to face the tough regulations and restrictions on civil liberties. National security is regarded to be grave for the survival of any country or state. On the other hand the civil liberties are considered to be the building blocks of the national security (Van Cleef, 2004). The difference between the democracy and the dictatorship is derived from the peoples state when they face different internal and external threats. In this regard the anti-terrorism is like a war which needs to be fought for good ends but in this course the powers of the state must not be expanded. The USPA was passed after the attacks of September 11th which impact Americans as well as the rest of the people around the world. A 2002 Gallop survey revealed that nine Muslim countries had weak opinion about the US. According to Weathe rford, the political legitimacy depended on the interaction between the personal traits and the performance which must ensure that the political process, civic pride, interpersonal trust and government accountability are fair (Kraft Furlong, 2004). The USPA violates 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 14th amendments that freedom of the citizens of unreasonable searches was removed because the government started to search for terrorism ('The U.S.A. Patriot Act of 2001: balancing civil liberties and national security: a reference handbook', 2005). The act also suppressed the right to public trial. There was two parts that were declared to be unconstitutional which is the search and the seizures as this meant violation of the privacy of the citizens (Swart, Lydia and Cile Page. (March 1, 2015)). Since the Act has a lot of flaws and ineffectiveness, it is regarded to be unethical because it compromises the personal lives of the people by disrupting the communication privacy in an unprecedent ed way (Warshawsky, 2013). References Smith, M. (2003). Government Relations: The USA Patriot Act.Academe,89(6), 93. doi:10.2307/40252568 The U.S.A. Patriot Act of 2001: balancing civil liberties and national security: a reference handbook. (2005).Choice Reviews Online,42(06), 42-3688-42-3688. doi:10.5860/choice.42-3688 Van Cleef, C. (2004). 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