Being A Patriot Act Essay

3. The U.S.A. Patriot Act is an antiterrorism policy set forth immediately following the attacks of 9/11, in which various federal agencies are given increased power in determining the reach of domestic surveillance, interagency data sharing, law enforcement, immigration, individual privacy, civil liberties, and overall authority. The consequences of such an extensive act include endangerment of privacy, discouragement of free speech, potential abuses of civil liberties, an imbalanced and unchecked government authority, and increases in discrimination and profiling against Muslims, Arabs, and people who appear related to those two previous labels.
Guantanamo Bay is an off shore military prison that holds people whom the U.S. consider to be suspected terrorists. Technically prisoners of the Bay are supposed to be guaranteed “humane treatment, free exercise of religion and medical treatment”(Civil Liberties). However at the same time they are restricted from challenging their imprisonment or sentences. A substantial consequence of this is that it stretches the power of the executive branch of the government and allows them to imprison people, even citizens, under any basis that they deem as terror related. Innocent people can be easily tangled into this detainment …show more content…
to in some ways wash its hands of the offenses and atrocities that are committed there. Out of sight, out of mind applies to Guantanamo Bay, its secretive nontransparent operations allows for free range handling of prisoners without great criticism from the media and the public. The consequences of that are less accountability, potential human rights infringements, violations of ethical standards, inhuman treatment of prisoners, torture (which could cause false confessions), and more innocent individuals being