The Patriot Act, however, blurs the line between keeping America safe and turning it into a police state (Nieves). ... Not only may these wiretaps be authorized secretly, but also they can be used on anyone that the government feels could be a terrorist suspect (Talanian). ... These areas include preparing emergency workers for chemical or biological attacks, improving security at ports and land borders, and giving police access to terrorist watch lists. ... "We want the local police to do what they were meant to do, protect their citizens," said co-director of the Bill of Rights Defense C...

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This spying was under secret for four years, only known by Congress, the Executive Branch, and the New York Times. ... This and many other cases occur, for example when another college student posted a tweet commenting about his Islam Studies class, the state police went to his school and made him a small interview and investigations in order to keep everything under control. ... "In this case, Bush didn't have a warrant for conducting his secret surveillance. ...

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It was against this background of increasing Balkanization that the delegates met in a secret session in May 1787: out of the convention, however, came the Constitution of the U.S., a document very different from the Articles of Confederation. ... A staff of about 320 people supports the justices most of these people, maintenance workers, security officers, and others who serve custodial and police functions report the Marshall of the Court. ... Some people feel that the Supreme Court has become to active in politics, that its major decisions and legal interpretations have had to much influe...

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Law enforcement may evolve into "thought police," because they are given the right to detain these alleged "terrorists," and even press charges based solely on one's beliefs (PFAW). ... There have been cases of secret hearings, which violate the individual's right to a public trial with a jury. ... As a result, America will transform into a police state, which prosecutes the beliefs of an individual, not their actions. ...

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In other words the government has the ability and legal right to weaken any secure private network by installing a secret pathway into a private system and accessing that system with its own password. ... To answer this question, we didn't know then, but now we have concrete evidence that America is transforming into a police state. ...

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This shows that the government is expecting privacy for itself by not allowing its sources to be known; yet by keeping these sources secret they are denying privacy to United States citizens. ... One such Supreme Court ruling found that "the police may legally search, without a warrant, trash or garbage that individuals leave out for collection" ("Privacy of Garbage"). ...

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