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This 3 page paper analyzes an article supporting the PATRIOT Act, both in terms of its construction as a literary work, and for its content. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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analyzes an article supporting the Act, both in terms of its construction as a literary work, and for its content. Discussion On September 11, 2003, Kevin Ryans pro-PATRIOT Act article
appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. Ryan is the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, and was appointed by President Bush, so an astute reader should first
of all recognize that the article will have a pro-administration slant. Ryan begins the article by revisiting the horror of September 11, referring to the "callous viciousness of our terrorist
enemies" and the fact that "more than 3,000 Americans lost their lives that day." We should notice that he begins by using very pejorative words ("callous," "viciousness," "enemies") and by
citing the tremendous loss of life. This appeals to the emotions of readers, most of whom are still angry, at some level, about what happened. His main points after
that, in order, are these: first, that it is his highest priority to defend his district from possible terrorist attacks, and that the PATRIOT Act is his main weapon in
this fight; second, that protests against the Act are based on misinformation; third, that the PATRIOT Act was passed by both the House and Senate with almost no opposition, even
from Democrats; and fourth, that the PATRIOT Act is a "key tool" in the fight against terror, and that it only provides "modest, incremental changes in the law" by taking
"existing legal principles" and retrofitting them to meet the new reality. In the next paragraphs he enumerates these changes, which include giving investigators the same tools to use in
terrorism cases as have been available for years in "drug, fraud and racketeering cases"; bringing the law up to date with technology; allowing information sharing and cooperation among government departments;
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