Subtopic One: Removed Restrictions on the Ability for Law Enforcement to Gather Intelligence
1. John Ashcroft: "It allows law enforcement to use proven tactic long used in the fight against organized crime and drug dealers."
2. Alice Fisher (Deputy Attorney General): "... the Act has removed many restrictions on law enforcement's ability to gather intelligence through physical searches, wiretaps, electronic surveillance, and increased access to criminal records."
3. Kevin V. Ryan: "... the Patriot Act ensured that investigators could use the same tools in terrorism cases that have been available for many years in drug, fraud and racketeering cases."
Subtopic Two: Information Sharing Provisions are Necessary for Efficient Information Flow
4. John Ashcroft: "... law enforcement can share information and cooperate better with each other. From prosecutors to intelligence agents, the Act allows law enforcement to 'connect the dots.' "
5. President Bush: "You cannot fight the war on terror unless all bodies of your government at federal, state and local levels are capable of sharing intelligence on a real time basis."
Subtopic Three: Strengthened Penalties for Crimes of Terror
6. President Bush: "The Patriot Act strengthened the penalties for crimes committed by terrorists, such as arsons, or attacks on power plants and mass transit systems. In other words, we needed to get-- we needed to send a signal..."
7. Alice Fisher: "... the USA Patriot Act substantially strengthened criminal law, helping us pursue criminals in the most extensive criminal investigation in history."
8. Alice Fisher: "It is not a crime for anyone subject to US jurisdiction to provide anything of value-- including their own efforts or expertise-- to organizations designated as 'foreign terrorist organizations.'
Subtopic Four (Counterargument): Features Court Tested Safeguards
9. John Ashcroft (Attorney General): "The Act uses court-tested safegaurds and time-honored ideas to aid against terrorism, while protected the rights and lives of citizens."
10. John Ashcroft: "The Patriot Act grants the executive branch critical tools in the war on terrorism. It provides the legislative branch extensive oversight. It honors the judicial branch with court supervision over the Act's most important powers."
11. Senator Dianne Feinstein recently said, quote, "I have never had a single abuse of the Patriot Act reported to me. My staff emailed the ACLU and asked them for instances of actual abuses. They emailed back and said that they had none."
1. John Ashcroft: "It allows law enforcement to use proven tactic long used in the fight against organized crime and drug dealers."
2. Alice Fisher (Deputy Attorney General): "... the Act has removed many restrictions on law enforcement's ability to gather intelligence through physical searches, wiretaps, electronic surveillance, and increased access to criminal records."
3. Kevin V. Ryan: "... the Patriot Act ensured that investigators could use the same tools in terrorism cases that have been available for many years in drug, fraud and racketeering cases."
Subtopic Two: Information Sharing Provisions are Necessary for Efficient Information Flow
4. John Ashcroft: "... law enforcement can share information and cooperate better with each other. From prosecutors to intelligence agents, the Act allows law enforcement to 'connect the dots.' "
5. President Bush: "You cannot fight the war on terror unless all bodies of your government at federal, state and local levels are capable of sharing intelligence on a real time basis."
Subtopic Three: Strengthened Penalties for Crimes of Terror
6. President Bush: "The Patriot Act strengthened the penalties for crimes committed by terrorists, such as arsons, or attacks on power plants and mass transit systems. In other words, we needed to get-- we needed to send a signal..."
7. Alice Fisher: "... the USA Patriot Act substantially strengthened criminal law, helping us pursue criminals in the most extensive criminal investigation in history."
8. Alice Fisher: "It is not a crime for anyone subject to US jurisdiction to provide anything of value-- including their own efforts or expertise-- to organizations designated as 'foreign terrorist organizations.'
Subtopic Four (Counterargument): Features Court Tested Safeguards
9. John Ashcroft (Attorney General): "The Act uses court-tested safegaurds and time-honored ideas to aid against terrorism, while protected the rights and lives of citizens."
10. John Ashcroft: "The Patriot Act grants the executive branch critical tools in the war on terrorism. It provides the legislative branch extensive oversight. It honors the judicial branch with court supervision over the Act's most important powers."
11. Senator Dianne Feinstein recently said, quote, "I have never had a single abuse of the Patriot Act reported to me. My staff emailed the ACLU and asked them for instances of actual abuses. They emailed back and said that they had none."
3 comments:
As far as my third subtopic goes, it basically covers the effects that may result from the government interferring with the eating of children in schools etc. It covers eating disorders, and the economic pressures many lower and middle class Americans would feel.
In response to your "experts", I think you have some really good quotes; they should help you a lot while writing your paper.
Did you chose to make your fourth topic a counter-argument? That's and interesting decision, I was curious as to why you decided upon that.
It was easiest to make my fourth argument more of a counter-argument because, to be honest, as I am not a lawyer it is difficult to really understand some of the more complicated legal implications of the Act. Therefore it was easier for my to discuss counters to possible abuses then to cite why actual abuses are not allowed. (That sounds really odd, sorry...)
That sounds like a really interesting subtopic- I can't wait to read your rough draft. (It's coming up quickly!)
Your quotes reinforce your subtopics. They give outside opinion giving the arguments depth good job!!
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