Matthew K. on the Patriot Act

Matthew K. sends in these comments on the The Patriot Act:

A continuation from Thursday’s class, in both the Daily Record and also in the NJ Herald there was an article dealing with an individual who was charged with blinding pilots while trying to land at Teterboro airport. The man faces 20 years in prison based on the Patriot Act charges. The man states that he was star gazing when his laser beam accidentally hit the planes. The charge against the man is for and I quote from the article “non-purposeful conduct”. The other article states that is was a reckless act, which endangered the safety of others.

For everyone to know big brother is always looking over your shoulders. Our personal freedoms have been limited further with the introduction of the Patriot Act. I fully understand that the intention was to keep my family safe from those wishing to do harm, but it would be nice if we had the ability to stop these people from entering our country. This may be too much for our politicians to handle and therefore will have to do this baby steps.


New Jersey Herald
Thursday March 24 2005
Laser Indictment Filed

Daily Record
Thursday March 24 2005
Laser-pointing Suspect Indicted