The Benefits Of The Patriot Act

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The Patriot Act, created forty- five days after the terrorist attack on September 11th, to protect the lives of American citizens; although it is frequently not viewed as protection more of an invasion of privacy. The Patriot Act was created to so the government could watch and prevent terrorism, drug scandals, fraud, and organized crimes in the United States. The United States government is keeping an eye on interactions on your devices to protect us from crime and events that could harm us. Americans do not like the idea of being watched 24/7 by our government officials, but it is indeed benefitting us as citizens. The government keeping an eye on us has prevented several crimes and terrorist attacks even though some claimed that the Patriot Act has not benefited the U.S. in any way and turns regular citizens into suspects.…show more content…
The Patriot Act has prevented the U.S. from multiple terrorist attacks within the last 19 years of being created. Since September eleven, the U.S. has not had a direct terrorist attack. The Patriot Act has prevented the U.S. from being an open target for a missile. The idea of the Patriot Act is to stop the crime before it happens. Because the Patriot Act prevents a crime from happening before it happens, it saves many issues in the U.S. and even saves lives. It is the responsibility of the government to preserve the lives and liberty of the people the Patriot Act was made to do so, as stated in the third article. So clearly in article three, it claims that The Patriot Act was created to protect American citizens, not harm
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