I chose an article that was about a Secret Service Officer named Lee Robert Moore, who is being charged with attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor and faces a state court preliminary hearing Friday on two counts of sexual solicitation of a child under 18 and one count of providing obscene material to a person under 18. The federal complaint stated, “Moore often engaged in online chats while on duty, once asking the undercover officer to send him something “exciting” one day when he…
An act where the government can provide higher security for our country. An act that further protects Americans. The Patriot act strengthens and improves America by providing the appropriate tools to intercept terrorism in America. Providing America with the maximum security and doing everything to protect us from events such as 9/11 from happening again, is the governments goal with placing the Patriot Act. The one reason many Americans oppose the Patriot act is because of its little success.…
In 2005 Antoine Jones was arrested for drug possession. The police had been able to follow Mr. Jones by attaching a tracking device to the bottom of his car, which they did receive a warrant to do, but only for 10 days and only in DC. The police installed the tracker on the 11th day when the warrant had expired. This device was always on and tracked him for a month. He was convicted, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit stated in the 1983 case were a beeper was used to follow a car…
A normal day can turn into a tragedy and change millions of lives forever. That one day for Muslim across the United States was September 11, 2001. On this day, three thousand lives were taken by nineteen terrorist associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda. Those nineteen militants hijacked four full airplanes. Three out of the four planes crashed into heavily populated areas. The fourth plane was taken back by the passengers and was crashed into an empty Pennsylvania field. Ever…
Muslims Immigration A. Introduction Over the past decade, the rise of Muslim immigrants has increased dramatically. With the recent terrorist attacks like the San Bernardino shooting, people are becoming concerned about Muslims entering the United states, and that left many people questioning if we should allow Muslims to enter the United states anymore, Donald Trump the president candidate who called on complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United states have been recently backed by…
Many believe that the Anti Terrorism Act is in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. As stated in the charter that the guarantees are not absolute. The limits posed by Parliament on our basic rights and freedoms are reasonable but does not have a broad description of what this consists of. The fact is that these must be "demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.” This is a common issue found in the Constitution of Canada of who’s to determine what is reasonable…
Since the 9/11 attacks, the city of Baltimore has taken substantial steps to prepare for the possibility of another terrorist incident. With the evolution of homeland security and Maryland’s close proximity to Washington DC, Baltimore officials were forced to re-evaluate the terrorist threat and vulnerabilities that plagued their city. Maryland was confronted with a variety of issues stemming from their mass transit system, expansive private and public people infrastructure, oceanic ports, and…
There are many different types of terrorism in the world, the main two getting attention right now is cyber terrorism and guerrilla tactics acts of terrorism. Technology is the driving force in society communication and internet surfing being a focal point of how terrorism can be expressed or how terrorist reach out to their followers. Cyberterrorism come in the form denial of service attacks, phishing attacks to hold one’s data captive for a payment, the leaking off classified information. In…
Background: Recently, Apple was required to unlock a work-issued iPhone-5C to cooperate with FBI in a terrorist attack. However, Apple declined the request. Apple’s attitude on encryption: Law enforcement agents around the country have already said they have hundreds of iPhones they want Apple to unlock if the FBI wins this case. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks. Of course, Apple would do our best to protect…
What is the single biggest threat to the United States today? If a group of Americans were asked to answer this question, there would surely be much debate. The threat of terrorism certainly has had an effect on the American way of life. College students are being gunned down on their own campuses, buildings are being bombed, and co-workers are shooting each other. ISIS claims to be in the United States planning their next attack. Any informed American would be concerned. It could also be argued…