Terrorists posed as American citizens roam our streets every day, acting like normal Americans while plotting their next attack on our soil. The only way to find and stop these terrorists is to allow the NSA to track emails, phone records, text messages and pictures that travel in and out of the United States. The ethically correct thing to do in this scenario is to let the government track these items in order to ensure our safety in order to solidify our nation from attack and to help put these terrorist behind bars. The Patriot Act gives this power to the NSA and repealing the Patriot act would be detrimental to US safety and security because it would takeaway the government’s power to track these dangerous individuals. Opponents to the
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The naysayers stated that the Patriot act has only foiled 1 actual terrorist plot, when in reality it has stopped dozens of sleeper cells before they ever even got to the phase of planning an actual attack. The American Patriot act is a leading solution to this problem of terrorism even with our allies overseas, Britain has been falling behind in terrorist prevention defense mechanisms such as the patriot act and that is why they have faced so many more fatal incidents after 9-11. “The world is more dangerous than it used to be: technological changes have made it easier to build, miniaturize and conceal dangerous weapons, as a result of which terrorists can launch more devastating attacks today than they have in the past. Defensive technologies have not kept up.” If defensive technologies like the PRISM software are not kept up to date and powerful then we could face catastrophes unlike any we have ever seen before, if we don’t expand our defensive while the terrorist expand their offense then when they strike we will not be prepared. For example, in the USA when a terrorist tried to set a bomb off in Chicago the attempt was thwarted well before the bomber could execute, while in France (another ally lacking sufficient defense) terrorist were able to infiltrate a well known office of the Charlie Hedbo magazine and massacre the workers inside. The biggest difference in this case was that in America all interactions amongst that terror group would have been mined into the PRISM software and the FBI could have acted before any progress was made. And that would have been the ethical thing to do. Is it bad to let the government have access to all our media transaction? Maybe. But is it worse than having innocent people die when we had the power to save their
The naysayers stated that the Patriot act has only foiled 1 actual terrorist plot, when in reality it has stopped dozens of sleeper cells before they ever even got to the phase of planning an actual attack. The American Patriot act is a leading solution to this problem of terrorism even with our allies overseas, Britain has been falling behind in terrorist prevention defense mechanisms such as the patriot act and that is why they have faced so many more fatal incidents after 9-11. “The world is more dangerous than it used to be: technological changes have made it easier to build, miniaturize and conceal dangerous weapons, as a result of which terrorists can launch more devastating attacks today than they have in the past. Defensive technologies have not kept up.” If defensive technologies like the PRISM software are not kept up to date and powerful then we could face catastrophes unlike any we have ever seen before, if we don’t expand our defensive while the terrorist expand their offense then when they strike we will not be prepared. For example, in the USA when a terrorist tried to set a bomb off in Chicago the attempt was thwarted well before the bomber could execute, while in France (another ally lacking sufficient defense) terrorist were able to infiltrate a well known office of the Charlie Hedbo magazine and massacre the workers inside. The biggest difference in this case was that in America all interactions amongst that terror group would have been mined into the PRISM software and the FBI could have acted before any progress was made. And that would have been the ethical thing to do. Is it bad to let the government have access to all our media transaction? Maybe. But is it worse than having innocent people die when we had the power to save their