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1984 was a novel written by George Orwell, and exemplified his ideologies of big government. Orwell wrote this book as a social commentary at the start of the cold war. Orwell saw how communism truly was and it’s power to oppress people. He was very wary of large government. And wanted to inform the American people of what they were actually supporting in 1949. Although 1984 seemed like a distant dystopian future, the Bush and Obama administrations have been abusing their powers and unjustifiably limiting the civil liberties and rights of its people in the sake of claiming that it is all in the guise of “War on Terror”. The American public has torn between giving up their rights, and having more national security. But why do you have to chose …show more content…

Like the collection of millions of people’s phone records , without their consent or without reason. The NSA has many loopholes, one of which includes Prism, which collects information from Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo. Ackerman, Spencer, and James Ball. "NSA Performed Warrantless Searches on Americans' Calls and Emails – Clapper." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 2014. Web. 21 May 2016. IT violates many constitutional rights, it even prevent public trial from occurring for many months. Many have even claimed that the US’s attempt to try to protect us has mirrored that of Nazi Germany. America like the past Germany has become obsessed with monitoring, tracking, and watching the general population. Even increased gun control was something Hitler was very vocal about, and so has Obama, “Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.” Gun control never really affects the criminals, just law abiding citizens, just like many other laws that limit people’s

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