Repression Of Dissent Summary

The general public gives an problem with the government surveillance as a media for invading others privacy. With the government monitoring, collecting, and retaining people's personal data, one side would claim that it is an infringement of their freedom to the rights to privacy. While the National security associations justifies the reason for monitoring would be to maintain order. Their ways to maintain order would be to monitor criminal and terrorist activity and to detect incoming threats, terrorists, or problems that would harm their country. This issue shows that freedom cannot exist without order. Although the general public wants their freedom of their privacy, they can not achieve their most of their desires because it puts their lives at risk without protection. Order is necessary in order to have freedom. It is impossible to attain entire freedom for a cause, however, it is possible to attain freedom to a certain

When the colonist were drafting the constitution they couldn’t have imagined the tremendous growth we have achieved today. With innovation comes conflict. Many citizens feel the United States gives an illusion of freedom. Today the biggest conflicts are centered on basic rights spelled out in the constitution. It’s no secret the National Association of Surveillance illegally obtains information from the electronic devices of United States citizens. The actions of the NSA violate the 1st, 4th, 5th, and 9th amendment rights. The NSA’s use of information impedes on the first amendment in terms of freedom of press. For a journalist the source is the key, and the key stays confidential. With the NSA collecting digital trails there is a higher risk for whistle blowers to be charged with criminal act or even assassinated. The courts stand by the NSA, for

Whether it is calling someone on your phone or online shopping on the computer, people are more connected than ever to the internet. However, a person might be oblivious to the fact that they are being watched using these technologies. The NSA (National Security Agency) is an intelligence organization for the U.S. to protect information systems and foreign intelligence information. Recently the NSA has been accused of invading personal privacy through web encryption, tracking, and using personal information for their own uses and without permission. The surveillance of the NSA produces unlawful invasion of privacy causing an unsecure nation.

NSA infringes on the 1st and 4th Amendment rights. America was the safe zone: a lot of people came to the United States so that they would have the freedom to express who they are, what they believe, and their thoughts without punishment. Edward Snowden, NSA whistle blower, wasn’t allowed that freedom when he made it know what the NSA was doing with Verizon’s phone records. Snowden did break the law but he brought awareness of this dilemma to the average citizen, villain, and hero. In the end, it caused the NSA to change some policies but it doesn’t even make a difference because still the administration continues to collect data without a cause. Correction: the NSA uses surveillance to protect United States of America from terrorist, terrorism and terrorism related crimes… The agency’s interpretation: anyone and anything under the sun.

Government surveillance is beneficial in moderation, but can quite easily become excessive. A well-known example of this is the controversy regarding the NSA monitoring U.S. citizens discreetly on American soil. This unwarranted watch crosses the fine line between monitoring criminal suspects for security, and blatant overreach of authority in spying common citizens. The personal infringement of information has been commonly associated with the NSA’s PRISM, but their MUSCULAR program is much more disconcerting. According to Harry Bruinius in “Why Tech Giants Are Now Uniting Against U.S. Surveillance”:

“After years of denial, much of which likely constituted perjury, officials of the National Security Agency (NSA) admitted to having conducted unwarranted surveillance of Americans, a violation of the protections against such searches provided by the Fourth Amendment.” "NSA Admits Directly Targeting Americans for Warrantless Surveillance." NSA Admits Directly Targeting Americans for Warrantless Surveillance. Web. 8 Apr. 2015. The NSA abuses their power by going to the extreme and spying on innocent citizens warrantless. It isn’t fair to the society. The NSA shouldn’t be able to view anyone’s personal information without a warrant. With or without a warrant, The NSA should still have certain rules that will create boundaries. President Obama and the National Security Chief stated that they do not monitor the communications of

Often our nation sees as a symbol of freedom to the world; however, since the events of 9/11 the U.S congress signed into law the U.S Patriot Act. This legislation extends the power of the government by strengthening its oversight authority over the nation, claiming protection of the national security against potential foreign threats. As an American citizen, I agree with some of the terms and measures adopted under the Patriot Act in which the government needs to intercept, obstruct, and monitor terrorism actions keeping us safe from potential attacks without violating any of our civil rights. However, the act fails to secure American liberties, facilitating and encourages the government to become authoritarian with the pretext idea of national security purpose, exposing millions of Americans lives to serious and potential abuses of corruptions, fraud and discrimination by taking away our freedoms and liberty rights guarantee by the U.S Constitution, assuming that giving politicians authoritarian powers will make America a safer place to live. On the Other hand as a Law abiding citizen I’m not willing to sacrifice and been taking away my constitutional rights in exchange for national security purpose, because if we continue like that, we would be further away from an ideal democracy society, losing confidence and support to our government system that eliminates the American ideal of check and balance power for their own ends.

Human knowledge is one of the man impact of the community, once they find that they are looking into what they do and they are considered suspects every terrorist attack they will soon begin to become paranoid. though this paranoia isn't due to the fact that they may have done something wrong, but that they didn't do a thing and the FBI might make the criminals for making one too many calls or for having different medical involvement. Plenty of citizens would refuse to be under that kind of surveillance, due to the about if observation the patriot act puts on people they would no longer feel comfortable in the way they are living. In source 2, the author claims "The NSA and FBI use the Patriot Act to collect the phone records of millions of people who have never even been suspected or accused of a crime" (source 2), this is not only portraying that they have records of what people are doing and not just that they hardly ever even find the actual people that are guilty of terrorism attacks, invading people's lives is much greater than being just illegal it is harassment toward the community as a

The National Security Association (NSA) monitors the communications without warrant or viable cause, except for the threat of terrorist attacks. Allowing the U.S. Government to monitor its people violates their Fourth Amendment right to privacy. Not only is monitoring a violation of right, but the NSA is also keeping

Ernesto Aguilar and Melissa Chiprin’s article “Criminalization of Culture and the Rise of Dissent” examines the U.S. justice system’s use of discriminatory treatment towards African American citizens in order to maintain social order (41). The state oppresses minority races through the use of racism and criminal injustice (42). Furthermore, the majority of the population has limited knowledge on the history of enslavement; thus, they are unaware of past events that have led to an increase in the number of incarcerated African Americans (43). The present U.S. criminal justice system is a reflection of European colonialism and imperialism (44). Moreover, the article illustrates the immense amount of racism that exists within current American

Surveillance was one of the biggest changes to the foreign policy in the United States. The Patriot Act was created under PResident Bush which allowed the United States government to track phone records, text messages, and call logs from individuals to help track down terrorists. After recent debate the surveillance portion of the Patriot Act has now expired and is currently weaving through Congress. Some believe that the surveillance is important in tracking terrorists, but some see the other side where is is a breach of the illegal search portion of the Amendments.

Muslims are disproportionately surveilled by the NSA regardless of probable cause. [Murtaza and Greenwald] One may wonder how it is possible for the government to do these things without probable cause but the issues in the Patriot Act explain it all. The NSA does not have to go through typical methods of obtaining a warrant like police departments. Instead, they go through things called FISA courts which approve or reject requests for warrants. The FISA courts however are a result of a corrupt system with very loose regulations. Since September 11th 2001 the FISA courts have rejected 11 requests for surveillance among thousands. [Washington Post] This essentially means that because groups like Al Qaeda or ISIS are Islamic radical groups, the National Security Agency is free to target Muslims regardless of whether or not the people being surveilled are legitimate suspects because the two . Of course this method can be proven ineffective simply by the logic that not all followers of Islam are violent and nothing about the religion mandates terrorism. In fact, an FBI report revealed that only 6% of all terrorism in the United States since 1980 has been caused by Islamic radicals. The prejudice has allowed for society to label things like the Sandy Hook shooting to be instances of “mental illness” whereas Islamic radical attacks are always labeled “terrorism”. [Wise] Even those who advocate the end of profiling are subject to heavy surveillance.

Because of this program, which is unconstitutional, it is also extremely easy to land on the terror watch list, and as a result, many people are treated as terrorists because their names show up on this list, and their lives become much more difficult because they are treated differently. However, the main concern is that because of the government’s knowledge about every detail of the lives of Americans, this information can be used against them. Americans also believe that the government has gone far enough to prevent terrorism, and therefore the government is only overstepping its boundaries by monitoring the calls and other activities of Americans. As Ben Franklin states, “when the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” Again, Americans are afraid that the government could come after them, and as a result they are forced to change their habits to reduce this

“The consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival” (Orwell). The world today is full of many dangers domestic and abroad. It has become a routine in the news to report on the daily mass shooting or update with the war on terror. We live in a world where being worried is justified; however, we should not give up our constitutional rights in the face of fear. The NSA’s dragnet surveillance programs, such as PRISM, are both ineffective and are surpassed by less questionable national security programs. The FISA court's’ approval of NSA actions are not only illegal, but exist as an embarrassing formality. Surveillance is a necessary

The cause of terrorist attacks like 9/11 tragedy the government has ramped ups the security and surveillance of the activist, journalist and dissidents. It is no secret that the government are able to have assess of people phone call records and text messages but for that reason that, activists avoid using telephones, instead they use tools like Skype. Which they think they are immune to interception but they are wrong. Over the last years there has been an industry of companies who provide surveillance technology to the government, technology that allows the government to hack into computers. Rather that intercepting the commutations as they go over the wire, instead the government now hacks into your computer, enable your webcam and your microphone and able to steal and look through documents from your computer. In the article “ Quasi- Constitutional Protection and Government Surveillance” by Emily Berman argues “ The government may collect and analyze unprecedented amounts of information about U.S persons’ communications, but without concomitant safeguards against infringing on individual privacy” (781). According to this, it indicates that all the access the government is able to see and how it is invading American’s privacy.