The definition of a patriot is one who loves and defends his or her country. On October 26, 2001, President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act Bill into law. This bill passed 98-1 in the United States Senate and 356-66 in the United States House of Representatives. The act is 342 pages long and c...

Abstract The Internet offers an amazing array of options to everyone. However, with that freedom also comes danger. The advent of the Internet has given once reclusive and hard to find criminals a wide-open playground. The crimes perpetrated on the Internet range from "victimless" whit...

Technology offers the potential for friendship, unity, and a lasting support to law enforcement, but is this friendship truly compatible or has technology increased the need for new and tougher laws, with a revision to most of the old laws already on the books. Technology has taken an average man&ap...

President George Washington led the patriots through the Revolutionary War, not to conquer but to begin building the American Dream. Since that time, the Constitution that bound the colonies into the United States of America has continued to represent the preservation of freedom. This precious docum...

The Age of Cyber Stalking Stalking is a form of harassment. The legal definition of harassment is "a course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress in such person and serves no legitimate purpose" or "words, gestures, and actions which ten...

If figures must be believed, the virtual world is not exactly a safe venue for business or private affairs. In its sixth annual Computer Crime and Security Survey in 2001, the Computer Security Institute of San Francisco reported on mounting financial losses to computer crimes and ot...

Teddy Mcminn National/Homeland Security Background Paper Participation in Government Introduction: Homeland Security with recent events dealing with 9/11 has only proven that our security in the world is not our biggest problem. Our borders within America are weak. Today techn...

Criminal justice in the United States is an expensive business. It is the only country in the west that routinely sentences offenders to prison terms longer than two years: 39 percent of state prisoners in 1991 had been sentenced to ten years or longer. It is also the only country in the ...

THE RUBY RIDGE CATASTROPHE "Federal agents in body armor and black ninja uniforms, armored cars crashing up hillsides, even the fabled helicopters of militia nightmares --Ruby Ridge had all the elements of a paranoid fantasy, with the difference that it was stamped in real flesh and blood. ...

Crime Date Submitted: 2000-01-24 Word Count: 2092 Crime refers to many types of misconduct forbidden by law. Crimes include such things as murder, stealing a car, resisting arrest, possessing or selling illegal drugs, appearing nude on a public street, drunken driving, and bank robbery. The ...

Anti-Terror Laws - What Americans Should Know Unaware to most people in the US, recently passed laws allow the government to watch them just about as much as they want. After the tragic terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 there have been many laws passed to protect our nation from these terr...

Eighteen years ago a 12 year old witnessed members of his family, neighbors and school friends slaughtered from a distance. He saw an army take on people with rocks and stones. As he watched this, he thought, "why can't Reagan [Ronald Reagan, president of the U.S. at that time] just tak...

The economic downturns of the Great Depression contributed to the county's fascination with gangster genres. As Americans lost their jobs or saw their farms foreclosed on by the once admired establishment or banking system; with public endorsement gangsters descended in spirit from America...

"At a time of national crisis, I think it is particularly apparent that we need to encourage the study of our past. Our children and grandchildren-indeed, all of us-need to know the ideas and ideals on which our nation has been built. We need to understand how fortunate we are to live in...

Trent Kenmai 5/15/00 DOMESTIC TERRORISM Over the past few years a new threat has been encountered by the United States. This threat does not come from away, but from within. It is know as domestic terrorism. This has been seen over the past decade in the f...

In the early morning hours of September 11, 2001, hijackers from the terrorist group al-Qaeda took control of four United States airplanes. Two of them brought down the Twin Towers in New York City. One of them severely damaged the Pentagon building in Washington D.C. The fourth plane crashed int...

On September 11th, America experienced something they never thought was possible. America faced the biggest terrorist attack on home soil when four airplanes were hijacked and crashed into one of New York's most crowded areas, and the United States' defense base. These locations include bo...

"All I smelled was rotten bodies," Texas Ranger, Roy Coffman said during his testimony at the murder and conspiracy trial of 11 Branch Davidians. The dead were found in the rubble of the April 19 fire that destroyed the compound, killing more than 75 Branch Davidians, including the sec...

THE SLOW DEATH OF "THE BILL OF RIGHTS" The American way of life changed for all citizens on the morning of September 11, 2001, in numerous fashion, some immediate and very obvious, other actions not apparent until much later. On October 26, 2001, a mere six weeks later, the greatest harm due to...

Security verses Privacy: How much do we need to be watched? You walk out of your house, get into your car, and drive down the street towards some unknown destination. However by leaving your house, someone sees you. They keep track of every move you make. This person already knows where you liv...

In the United States, decade following World War II should have been an era of prosperity and peace. After all, the Great Depression that had pervaded the 1920s through the 1930s was over. The United States had emerged victorious from the war. The country's position as a military superp...

Everyone has probably seen those people walking around with those shirts that say "I Read Your Email", but does one ever stop to think, "Who really does read my email besides myself?" This may be a question that people should start asking themselves. With today's technolog...