Project: Minority Report

April 21 Minority Report work will focus on the Patriot Act and we will consider sci-fi film as a genre. Works such as George Orwell' s1984, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and Anthony Burgess' Clockwork Orange among others have forced us to face the horror of an imagined future.
Prepare a group trial related to the Patriot Act
You decide: 1) the issues of the case including defendents and plantiffs; 2) the players; and 3) the roles.

Patriot Act-site gives links to full materials but also subtopics covered by the Patriot Act .
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html

Socialist Action: (fair to say left-wing??) The USA Patriot Act: A Bastion for Scoundrels, A Menace for Labor
http://www.socialistaction.org/news/200209/patriot.html

ConservativeTruth.org
http://www.conservativetruth.org/archives/guest/pwalfield-12-15-02.shtml

Criticism: Grand Jury Secrecy weakened
http://www.probe.org/docs/c-patriot.html

How the USA-PATRIOT ACT allows for detention and deportation of people engaging in innocent associational activity
http://www.aclu.org/Redirect.cfm?pg=%2Fcongress%2Fl102301h%2Ehtml

The ACLU on new anti-terrorism legislation
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=12125&c=206