Surveillance and the downfall of rights to privacy

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Surveillance technology has been advancing at breakneck speed and it will only grow in a rising market of “safety” with the ever present threat of terrorism and rising concerns over the safety of the general population; there are technologies that can see for miles and miles away and they can be completely stealth-like so that its almost impossible to think that technology that should be used to protect the public is actually being used to carefully observe and record data of every individual and can be easily abused if someone with wrong intentions gains a hold of that data and tried to misuse that data in any way shape or form. This on going issue has made many question the legitimacy of laws such as “The Patriot Act” and other actions of our National Security Agency which sees to only be good at targeting American citizens in their searches for threats to the nation.
The need for more surveillance technology dramatically increased with the passage of the infamous “Patriot Act” that was so hastily passed by congress and signed by President Bush that it was put into effect without much of the checks of the legal committees in the house and the senate and if those flaws were corrected as they should have been maybe there would be less controversy over the surveillance issue. Now this flawed law is quickly becoming the primary tool for keeping a veil over the NSA’s deceptive face and allows them to continue working in secret; that was until Edward
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Snowden stepped forward and pulled the veil off of this shady organization and how did America repay him? We made him flee for his dear life...

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... a power they didn’t have before, they still do not know how to handle the awesome power that they have been instilled with and yet we still are trying to give them more power over us because we are afraid of the dangers of life, life is full of dangers but expecting that the federal government do everything for us to fix it is not the answer because then we degrade ourselves down to a level in which we are creating a path to avoid. The world is not ready for surveillance technologies that are more advanced because in the end we will end up as the same totalitarian society that is

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in Orwell’s 1984; until we can learn to use the power given to us for its intended purposes then we will be able to use them to their most effective degree

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