Post 9/11 Regulations

Why the Post 9/11 Laws and Regulations were harmful to American Society
The events on September 11, 2001 will always be remembered by the American people as the day that America was brought into the War on Terrorism. That day has forever changed when members from the Islamist terrorist group called Al-Qaida hijacked four American Airliners. Two of the airplane were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and killing all passengers on board including 2,606 people in the two buildings and 343 New York firefighters (OpenStax, 2014). The third aircraft flew into the Pentagon building in northern Virginia killing all the passengers on board including 125 people that was in the building. The last and fourth aircraft passengers found …show more content…
After the attack, the Bush administration pushed the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and later the USA Patriot Act Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and subsequent legislation of the same act in 2009 and 2011 (DOJ, 2011). Overall the Act was meant to help investigators disrupt and dismantle complex terrorist plots and it created new means and levels of surveillance for potential threats. This though also allowed law enforcement agencies to monitor U.S citizens with their emails and phone conversations without a warrant (OpenStax, 2014). This I believe is outrageous that this could happen and how it is not more ostracized about. In today’s world there are multiple advancement in technologies to protect yourself from government surveillance, but I believe that privacy should be an inherent right that you have always. Another example of unwarranted breach of privacy was the Terrorist Surveillance Program by the National Security Agency (NSA). The program allowed the NSA to wiretap citizens in the U.S and in 2006 it was later founded to be unconstitutional and was ordered to be stopped by a federal judge in Detroit (OpenStax, 2014). The Terrorist Surveillance Program by the NSA and the USA Patriot Act showed how little privacy U.S citizens had in that time which is …show more content…
One example of this is a process of extraordinary rendition, which is when the CIA, to bypass the law in the U.S that prohibits torture, would send their prisoners to another country where the local authorities of said country would use methods of interrogations that were not allowed in the U.S in behalf of the U.S (OpenStax, 2011). I believe that this is both ethically and morally wrong and should not be a method that we use. One example of an ethical issue is the path that the U.S took to enact revenge on Al-Qaida. International law is important to follow to preserve the interests and values of small and large sovereignty states. The U.S broke one of these laws as it was a requirement to receive a mandate from the UN Security Council prior to utilizing non-defensive use of force. As a key member of the UN breaking one of the international laws that were previously agreed voluntarily by sovereign states does not reflect what the U.S should be like morally and ethically (Falk, 2005). After the September attack the immigration policy would forever be viewed under the lens of national security as all 19 members of the hijackers entered the U.S by legal channels. Overall the immigration policies only detained and deport personnel that the officials believe had links to Al-Qaida. I believe

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