America

            
             On January ninth, 2003, the United States Congressed passed the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, also known as the PATRIOT Act II. This document was originally in response to the event that took place on September 11th, 2001. The rights of Americans and the balance of powers in the United States was stopping the federal government to help and protect the American people along with our Enterprise System. Only according to the government, that is. With new issues including one's right to protect their DNA, America is only getting closer to martial law. As the challenged government executes plans to destroy terrorism, it is only destroying the American dream.
             To begin with, the federal government created the PATRIOT Act not to stop terrorism but to win the balance between the powers of the legal system. Ninety percent of the Act has nothing to do with terrorism and is instead a giant federal power-grab with tentacles reaching into every facet of society. It strips American citizens of all of their rights and grants the government and its private agents total immunity. A great example is under Section 501of the PATRIOT Act II a US citizen engaging in lawful activities can be grabbed off the street and thrown into a van never to be seen again. The Justice Department states that they can do this because the person would "had inferred from conduct" that they were not a US citizen. Government-given rights such as this can obviously be applied to the basic terrorist, but the facts are that it is applied to any person, which makes one question its context.
             Secondly, the new PATRIOT Act took away a company's right to privacy. Along with public databases such as library records, the new Act attacks private sectors such as medical databases, hence altering the Patient's Bill of Rights. According to Section 126, the government is granted the right to mine the entire spectrum of public and private sector information from bank records to educational and medical records.