THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA (The Choice is Yours) It is time for each of us to make a choice. Our country is on the verge of a Civil uprising unlike anything we have seen in our lifetimes. We have all read of the horrors of war but few have seen it. If our country falls into anarchy due to the results of this presidential election and the fallout from it, be it from internal or external forces or a combination of the two. I am not sure our nation will survive. The line has already been drawn in the sand by the protesters (Rioters). I said rioters, they stopped being protesting citizens when they resorted to vandalism and violence, arson, and looting. Most of the citizens of this country have already chosen sides, except for those …show more content…
In the words of Edmund Burke “The Only Thing Necessary For The Triumph Of Evil Is For good Men To Do Nothing”. I have no intention of doing nothing. The time is close at hand my fellow Americans. Will you fight for what's right? Or be led like sheep to slaughter. If you do not love our country GET OUT NOW. If you have an issue with my God, how I choose to worship, or that I do not acknowledge your God, LEAVE of your own volition. While you still can. If this becomes war within the borders of America, and by what we have all witnessed these past few years I'd say it already has. I not only cannot, but I will not guarantee your safe passage out. I do not have any concerns whatsoever if you worship differently from me. It is none of my business, however, if my worship of my god you have a problem with, that is when as Merle Haggard said “you're standing on the fighting side of me”. As I stated in the beginning, the time is now. We must each, for whatever your reasoning, choose. I will leave you with this quote from Samuel Adams ...“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They …show more content…
Everything is wonderful in and with America today our politicians and our government only want what's best we just are not smart enough to fully and truly comprehend improperly vetted immigrants and black lives matter are not terrorists in sheep's clothing. The mainstream media is not bought and paid for by the Democratic National Committee, which in turn is not funded by The Clinton Foundation. On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 the Obama Administration, in conjunction with the UN, did not launch a Global Police Force Networking operation to fight “Extremism” in US cities. Where our own F.B.I. Will be advisers instead of the other way around. United Nations vehicles, personnel, and equipment are not amassed in Boston, MA., New York City, N.Y., Houston, TX, and armories throughout the United States under the guise of a conspiracy theorist's worst nightmare come true. The government agencies like the NSA, C.I.A., D.H.S., G.S.A., S.S.S., S.T.B., and others are not using modern technology to watch, listen, and monitor United States Citizens through Cell towers and internet traffic, nor are they using the speakers, microphones, or cameras in our devices to aid in this endeavor. In 2013, the
In a world where terrorism, war, and economic instability are ever looming threats it’s not a wonder why the limits on the freedom of the individual can come into question. This is especially true when the country where these limits are brought into question is one of the world’s leading powers in: democracy, economics, social welfare, military force, and foreign politics in general. This country, of course, is the United States. Unfortunately, even with the country’s democratically centered government, there is still a debate on whether Americans have enough protections for civil liberties or not. A few key areas of argument on civil liberties and hopefully provide enough information to the reader so that he/she may deduce an educated opinion as to whether Americans have enough protection for civil liberties or not.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
To better understand the topic at hand it is important to understand what electronic surveillance is pertaining to Foreign Intelligence. The definition of “electronic surveillance”, as written is FISA, can be summarized best as acquisition of data from wire or radio communications using “an electronic, mechanical, or other surveillance device”. There are four specific criteria that further define electronic surveillance in more detail also included in FISA under Title 1, Section 101. This section also included definitions for those groups that surveillance may be authorized against. [2]
The people’s apprehensiveness does not come from the government’s ability to monitor their phone calls. It is the idea that they are listening to their individual conversations. The government needs to communicate to its citizens on the capabilities of the program. Most of the information on the limits of PRISM has come from the data leaks of Edward Snowden. The common consensus is that the government is able to access information by merely advising a meeting with a judge that is not withheld to the public. However, contrary to the popular belief that they are listening to phone calls, they are merely collecting the date and length of each phone call (Stray).
http://www.guntruths.com/guest% 20correspondent/american_citizens_have_a_right.htm. 28 July 1999. Schultz, Daniel J. "It's Hard to Argue With the Founders".
Whether the U.S. government should strongly keep monitoring U.S. citizens or not still is a long and fierce dispute. Recently, the debate became more brutal when technology, an indispensable tool for modern live, has been used by the law enforcement and national security officials to spy into American people’s domestic.
As stated In volume 23 of The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, First to Eighteenth Congress, “...one principle to make a nation great...is to protect every citizen...” and they found it a necessity to protect them as “[t]hese rights [were] essentially attacked, and war is the only means of redress...” Fighting for the protection of their rights established the notion that America would not tolerate disrespect and was not to be
The idea of freedom, that America, founded its principles on, has not always successfully held up. Undoubtedly when our country first started, we had the idea in mind, that our constitution would protect the needs of its people, even as those needs alter; therefore it’s wording needed to be, ductile and interpretive. In recent years, this plasticity has become functional and fair, yet in the past, politicians used it to give and revoke, power, to and from people. Prior to the civil war, though it helped spark many of the social/civil revolution we know today, liberty and freedom were a luxury enjoyed by a few people. Woman, non-whites, and low-income people had their liberties denied, questioned or altogether abolished. However these same groups
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should `make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”
Current advancements in technology has given the government more tools for surveillance and thus leads to growing concerns for privacy. The two main categories of surveillance technologies are the ones that allow the government to gather information where previously unavailable or harder to obtain, and the ones that allow the government to process public information more quickly and efficiently (Simmons, 2007). The first category includes technologies like eavesdropping devices and hidden cameras. These are clear offenders of privacy because they are capable of gathering information while being largely unnoticed. The second category would include technologies that are used in a public space, like cameras in a public park. While these devices
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
“Contemporary Americans” have a lot to earn from Thurgood Marshall here. In his eyes The Constitution does not deserve the high-praise that it gets. He uses context, logic, and emotion to convey his message, and his presentation facilitates
equally chosen that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed” (Jefferson).
“What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security didn’t depend upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter an enemy attack?”
However, government agencies, especially in America, continue to lobby for increased surveillance capabilities, particularly as technologies change and move in the direction of social media. Communications surveillance has extended to Internet and digital communications. law enforcement agencies, like the NSA, have required internet providers and telecommunications companies to monitor users’ traffic. Many of these activities are performed under ambiguous legal basis and remain unknown to the general public, although the media’s recent preoccupation with these surveillance and privacy issues is a setting a trending agenda.