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How Has 9/11 Changed Our Society

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After 9/11, the world as a whole took a turn. All of the sudden, we looked at the world as a scary and unsafe place. Why was our world becoming this? How was our world becoming this? What could be done about it? That is when Bush decided that he was going to change something to make sure that we felt safe and secure again in a place we all call home. “The NSA's broad data collection programs were originally authorized by President Bush on October 4, 2001” (ProPublica). Our government made a change immediately, only less than a month after September 11th, 2001. But only a short three years later it was found that the program that Bush had put into place has been illegal the entire time. He tried to fight, but he backed down quickly and let others …show more content…

Security and surveillance on the internet and phones weren’t the only things that changed after 9/11. Security in airports changed, tourism changed, immigration, and most of all trust in the government changed. Now before 9/11, airports were something that people could walk through, people could walk their loved ones to their plane and watch them take off and return back to their car. Today, there is security and loved ones have to have a great reason to walk to the plane. I think that security in the airport is a great thing, but if you think about security in DIA is far into the process of checking in and getting to a plane. Someone can check in, eat food, shop, and hang out, until they even reach security. That gives people a huge chance to walk in with a gun or bomb or anything and scout out something. So really, security is only keeping planes safe. Which is only half of the process, if airports really want protection, they will think of something of how to put security at the beginning of the process rather than in the middle of it. At the end of the day though, airports have has a lot of success in their security and have had minimal attacks since …show more content…

Presidents wanted to stop immigration because of the fear that they didn’t know who was coming into our country. Over the years that has obviously changed and tourism has become popular again because we as a country have regained trust in our government and immigration has many laws and guidelines to keep our country safe. I do agree with watching how much immigration came into our country and how much remains to go into our country. It is a scary thing that it cannot be controlled, how does one watch every person who comes into our country? They don’t, it’s impossible. We have to trust that they are here for the right reasons and are safe. I will admit that as a tourists to some places, it is still scary. It’s scary to go to an unknown place and think that they have good security there as

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