" စြမ္း " ရဲ႕ အဂၤလိပ္ဆရာ က ဒီတစ္ပတ္စာစီစာကံုးအတြက္ လက္ရွိေခတ္နဲ႕ေလ်ာ္ညီျပီး မၾကာေသးခင္က အျဖစ္အပ်က္ သတင္းအတိုအစမ်ိဳးစံုပါဝင္တဲ႕ Guidelines စာရြက္ ( ၆ ) ရြက္ေပးျပီး ကိုယ္ပိုင္ေခါင္းစဥ္နဲ႕ေရးခိုင္းပါတယ္ ။
Swan Ye Htut
Mr. Guarino
English 9, 3rd
October 17, 2013
One Nation …. Under Surveillance?
There has been a controversial topic being debated across the United States: whether or not the government has gone too far with the use of surveillance. License-plate readers and surveillance alike have spread since it was first introduced in the late 1960’s. We should not keep these cameras and license plate readers because of a variety of reasons.
One Nation …. Under Surveillance?
There has been a controversial topic being debated across the United States: whether or not the government has gone too far with the use of surveillance. License-plate readers and surveillance alike have spread since it was first introduced in the late 1960’s. We should not keep these cameras and license plate readers because of a variety of reasons.
The surveillance should not be kept because it is a violation of our civil liberties. For example, innocent people like Mr. Katz-Lacabe, a vocal critic of San Leandro’s surveillance program, have had their information stored in a massive database even though they did nothing wrong. The local police are tracking these innocent citizens’ vehicles automatically without their consent. Being unaware of police tracking makes the people uneasy and gives them a different image of the police. In addition, according to Katz-Lacabe, storing information about innocent citizens outs too much power in the hands of the police. Such a big database of information makes it too tempting to do something else with it besides catching criminals. There was a particular instance where a police officer used this information to blackmail the owners of some vehicles parked near a gay bar. This showed that even the police are human and have the possibility to misuse power. Even though some people are against surveillance, many departments embrace this new technology.
About 37% of large police
departments embrace this technology because they think that citizens’ giving up
their privacy for safety is worth it. That is not the case however. For
example, the Founding Fathers taught us to not give up liberty for safety. Even
though they were in far more danger than us, they refused to give up their liberty
and stood up for what they thought was right. These great men created the
foundation of our country. If we were to not listen to their wise words, the
essential ideas and principles of the nation would slowly fade away and this
country will no longer be the United State of America that they sought it out
to be. In addition, according to Heidi Boghosian, spying actually makes us less
safe. It is slowly depleting our relations with foreign countries and is making
Americans lose their trust and confidence in their own government. This idea of
the United States supposedly being a nation alongside its people is going to be
shattered if this surveillance continues. This topic also brings up the
legitimacy behind the government’s use of this power.
The surveillance also shouldn’t be kept because the government uses this power in an illegitimate way. For example, since 9/11 the number of lawyers that the government is spying on has increased. This spying gives an unfair advantage to the lawyer’s prosecution and almost removes the opportunity for fairness and justice. People will start to lose faith in the judicial system and ultimately the government. This will lead to the idea of being a peoples’ nation being challenged yet again. In addition, according to Robert Scheer, if the government leaks information, it is legitimate while in contrast if a non-government citizen does the same, it becomes espionage. This is like saying if the government were to assassinate an innocent citizen, it would be legitimate while if a random person were to do the same, they would have to suffer punishment. The government attempts to support its policies by revealing and leaking “classified” information to the general public. This makes the people wonder if they can really trust the government with this said information.
Although many departments already have this program in use, this technology should not be abused in the form of surveillance. The benefits of these programs simply cannot outweigh the potential loss of the people’s trust and faith towards the government. If the government disagrees to stop these programs, a compromise should be reached to limit this data to only be saved until an agreed point of time after the information is collected.
“ စြမ္း “ ကိုယ္စား
The surveillance also shouldn’t be kept because the government uses this power in an illegitimate way. For example, since 9/11 the number of lawyers that the government is spying on has increased. This spying gives an unfair advantage to the lawyer’s prosecution and almost removes the opportunity for fairness and justice. People will start to lose faith in the judicial system and ultimately the government. This will lead to the idea of being a peoples’ nation being challenged yet again. In addition, according to Robert Scheer, if the government leaks information, it is legitimate while in contrast if a non-government citizen does the same, it becomes espionage. This is like saying if the government were to assassinate an innocent citizen, it would be legitimate while if a random person were to do the same, they would have to suffer punishment. The government attempts to support its policies by revealing and leaking “classified” information to the general public. This makes the people wonder if they can really trust the government with this said information.
Although many departments already have this program in use, this technology should not be abused in the form of surveillance. The benefits of these programs simply cannot outweigh the potential loss of the people’s trust and faith towards the government. If the government disagrees to stop these programs, a compromise should be reached to limit this data to only be saved until an agreed point of time after the information is collected.
“ စြမ္း “ ကိုယ္စား
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