Friday, April 27, 2012

Didn't we solve this already?

While in class yesterday, we were discussing court cases that have shaped our laws that we have now. Pretty common sense stuff too. As I got to thinking, one of the cases that we started to discuss seemed way too familiar and relevant. Griswold v. Connecticut seemed to have ties to a current issue us Americans are facing right now.
The House recently passed a Cyber-security bill that is suppose to protect us from cyberattacks by other countries. This seems really fishy to me because it doesn't protect personal information. It just seems to protect big agencies and businesses. Boehner is all for the White House having complete control of the internet, but to me that infringes on our rights provided to us by the first 10 amendments. Who's to say that if the White House does gain control over the internet and they see things that aren't to their liking that they'll just nullify our rights and do what they want?
In high school we're all told to read certain assigned books and one seems to be ringing relevant now. 1984 by George Orwell has stated what it could be like if the government had enormous amounts of power. It's like Big Brother is coming alive and looking for every wrong doer and waiting to prosecute. That's not how governments should be in my opinion. Not even close.
It seems as if our government is just getting bored with all the powers we allow them to have now and don't have enough people to prosecute that they are just grabbing at whatever they can. Despite all this negativity I feel for this bill, I honestly think it has potential to be something useful. It just needs to be rewritten to state EXACTLY how it needs to operate. No loop holes. No sneaky tricks. It needs to state what it is allowed to do and what is not allowed. This seems vaguely familiar to writing the Constitution and deciding what powers should or should not be granted to the government. This is no different. If there's a risk of my freedoms being stripped away because of something so silly like what i'm posting on the internet, then i'm obviously going to go crazy and obnoxiously spread my opinion until my voice and the many other voices that believe the same thing are heard!

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