Essay 4

Adversity, in the long run can create balance. There have been and will be times when the terrain is smooth and the climb effortless, but there will also be times we will be challenged, our mental, moral, and emotional limits tested. Chelsea Manning, a former Military Intelligence Analyst and Marsha Colemen-Adebayo, a former employee of the Enironmental Protection Agency, were face with these challenges, their mental, moral, and emotional limits were tested and both felt a moral confliction. Both fought a battle of morals and ethics and when they made their decisions to blow the whistle on their employers for reasons they felt held validity, they found themselves being fiercely reprimanded against. Manning and Coleman-Adebayo fought legal battles with their employers, and while by the end of Coleman-Adebayo's case she did not find herself in prison, Manning, on the other hand, was sentences to thirty-five years in a state penitentiary. Both were governmnet employees, what we can take from their experiences with whistleblowing, especially Manning's case, is that the protections and procedures in whistleblower cases must be reviewed and ultimately strengthened.

Calm multicolor waters, bold red leaf trees surrounding the warm, thick sand, intoxicating scents of vanilla, lavender, green tea, and Rainbath soap that flow through the air, a euphoric place only existent in imagination, at least until someone succeeds in making it reality. Most things begin with an idea; thoughts have a way of bringing themselves out of the realm of imagination and into actuality. We saw this in 1778 when the first whistleblower protection law was enacted by the Continental Congress, in 2002 when the NO FEAR Act was signed into law by president Bush, in ...

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... Act that agencies use to abide by their own laws will be filled. Laws are meant to be strong, they are to ensure that we live comfortably and this is precisely what SB 496 will aid in. It will strengthen existing law to protect employees from being reprimanded against by employers for whistleblowing and allow workers to exercise their moral and ethical instinct. If this bill were one that was insignificant or held no validity, it's subject matter would not have been introduced by the Senate. SB 496 is a bill that all social classes, ethnicities, nationalities etc. will benefit from because it targets "employees" without exclusions. This is a bill that has the potential to start a domino effect beginning in California, but what is ironic about it is that while domino are meant to fall down, the protections of employee whistleblowers will be strengthened and rise up.