Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...well. As he sees it, 9/11 was a tragedy for America, a career move for Bush. The attacks allowed the President to push through Congress restrictive laws that would have been defeated in any climate but the ?war on terror? chill. ?Fahrenheit 9/11? shows some tragicomic effects of the Patriot Act: a man quizzed by the FBI for casually mentioning at his health club that he thought Bush was an ?asshole?; a benign peace group in Fresno, Cal., infiltrated by an undercover police agent...
...narrator and guiding force, though he does make a few piquant appearances. While chatting with Unger across the street from the Saudi embassy in Washington, he is approached and quizzed by Secret Service agents. Hearing from Rep. John Conyers that no member of Congress had read the complete Patriot Act before voting for it, he hires a Mister Softee truck and patrols downtown D.C. reading the act to members of Congress over a loudspeaker. Toward the end, he tries to get Congressmen to enlist their sons in the military. Surprise: no volunteers...
...sheet tells Harvard’s librarians how to respond to unexpected requests for information from federal agents. Since Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act passed in October 2001, government officials no longer need a court order to review records—including users’ borrowing histories—at libraries and bookstores across the nation...
Concern at Harvard peaked at a series of Faculty meetings last spring, when some faculty members criticized the Patriot Act’s library clause as a violation of their academic freedom. Some expressed concern that the nature of their own research could be misinterpreted if it were to come under scrutiny by federal agents not acquainted with their fields...
Even so, Bloom says the response from the higher-education community as a whole could be stronger. “I would like to see a greater thrust of all the universities to modify the PATRIOT...