THE PATRIOT ACTManolo PalafoxAndreas Stenner

SecurityFreedom from risk or danger; to be safety.

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all”John F. Kennedy

LibertyThe right and power to act, believe, or express oneself in a manner of one's own choosing; no one imposes you what to do.“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”Thomas Jefferson

Security and liberty are two of the most important things you expect and search in life. There is no other place in which you will feel safer tan your home, surrounded of people that care about you. The 11 of September of 2001, two airplanes invaded the privacy of the U.S. citizens and crashed the planes into the World Trade Center. After this attack, people realized that they were no longer safe in their own home. As a reaction to this and to guarantee people security, the USA launched the PATRIOT Act. This act would fight terrorism and blamed Al Qaeda for the incident. USA attacked the countries of Afghanistan and Iraq in search of the terrorist Sadam Hussein. This was not the last terrorist attack the USA suffered, lately there was a bombing in a carrier in Boston, Massachusetts.

PATRIOT ACTThe USA PATRIOT Act (commonly known as the "Patriot Act") is an

Act of the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. The Act dramatically reduced restrictions on law enforcement agencies' ability to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records; eased restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States; expanded the Secretary of the Treasury’s authority to regulate financial transactions, particularly those involving foreign individuals and entities; and broadened the discretion of law enforcement and immigration authorities in detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts. The act also expanded the definition of terrorism to include domestic terrorism, thus enlarging the number of activities to which the USA PATRIOT Act’s expanded law enforcement powers can be applied.

PATRIOT ACT OBJECTIVES• The purpose of the USA PATRIOT Act is to try to prevent and punish terrorist acts in

the United States and around the world. This would be reached by incrementing the investigation agencies efficiency.

• To strengthen U.S. measures to prevent, detect and prosecute international money laundering and financing of terrorism

• To subject to special scrutiny foreign jurisdictions, foreign financial institutions, and classes of international transactions or types of accounts that are susceptible to criminal abuse;

• To require all appropriate elements of the financial services industry to report potential money laundering;

• To strengthen measures to prevent use of the U.S. financial system for personal gain by corrupt foreign officials and facilitate repatriation of stolen assets to the citizens of countries to whom such assets belong.

CONCLUSIONThe PATRIOT ACT is extremely because its encouraging the

discrimination towards the Middle East countries without having an accurate proof that the responsible of the 9/11 were from one of this countries. We also got to the conclusion that there can not be security and liberty at the same time. This is supported as Dwight D. Eisenhower stated: “If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”