Before agencies were not allowed to share information and then the act was made into law and the agencies were allowed to share information regarding suspects. The US Patriot Act has three basic ares on trying to control counterfeit money, first expand the authority of the secretary of the treasury to regulate the U.S. financial institutes, such as require businesses to report cash transactions larger then 10,000 dollars (100). Second, create new crimes to control money laundering and enhanced punishment (100). Third, the act modified the ways forfeitures could be carried out and granted the government greater power to confiscate the property of anyone thought to support, plan, aid, authorize, or participate in an act of domestic or international terrorism (100). The Patriot Act allows border protection to use new ways for dealing with the potential for terrorism and raise the cap and allowing them to hire more border patrol agents (101). The Patriot Act created loads of controversy since it was passed. People that disagree with the act think that the acted was passed too fast. Jim McDermott, a Senator, said alleged "that no Senator had read the bill" while John Conyers stated, "We don 't read most of the bills. Do you really know what that would entail if we read every bill that we passed?"(Patriot Act 2011) That really surprised me because it 's like some of the new gun laws they are trying to pass, knowing the fact that they might not have been thought out or even read all the way makes me scared of what the government is capable of doing without even realizing it. I really do believe the government should the people of the United States agree on certain laws and since they agree on it they might even follow it, instead of disagreeing with it and breaking it. They need to slow the processes down, but then again if they did read it all way it would take forever. Its like us when we get new Tv service we just want signal and sometimes don 't even bother to read the fine print. United States v. Antoine Jones a night club, that was believed to
Before agencies were not allowed to share information and then the act was made into law and the agencies were allowed to share information regarding suspects. The US Patriot Act has three basic ares on trying to control counterfeit money, first expand the authority of the secretary of the treasury to regulate the U.S. financial institutes, such as require businesses to report cash transactions larger then 10,000 dollars (100). Second, create new crimes to control money laundering and enhanced punishment (100). Third, the act modified the ways forfeitures could be carried out and granted the government greater power to confiscate the property of anyone thought to support, plan, aid, authorize, or participate in an act of domestic or international terrorism (100). The Patriot Act allows border protection to use new ways for dealing with the potential for terrorism and raise the cap and allowing them to hire more border patrol agents (101). The Patriot Act created loads of controversy since it was passed. People that disagree with the act think that the acted was passed too fast. Jim McDermott, a Senator, said alleged "that no Senator had read the bill" while John Conyers stated, "We don 't read most of the bills. Do you really know what that would entail if we read every bill that we passed?"(Patriot Act 2011) That really surprised me because it 's like some of the new gun laws they are trying to pass, knowing the fact that they might not have been thought out or even read all the way makes me scared of what the government is capable of doing without even realizing it. I really do believe the government should the people of the United States agree on certain laws and since they agree on it they might even follow it, instead of disagreeing with it and breaking it. They need to slow the processes down, but then again if they did read it all way it would take forever. Its like us when we get new Tv service we just want signal and sometimes don 't even bother to read the fine print. United States v. Antoine Jones a night club, that was believed to