This editorial discusses the United States Patriot Act. This act gives the federal government the right to spy on anyone who may be suspected of being involved with terrorism. This bothers me because what if there is a person who truly does not like you and wants to cause you harm. So this person places an anonymous tip to the FBI and you are left to be searched, tapped, and copied without even knowing and the moment you mention anything about terrorists or bombs, you have the FBI banging down your door. I can understand people want to be safe and are willing to be searched but I just do not believe that it is right. Another thing that bothers me is the idea that people are willing to profile and torture people of different ethnicities. My favorite line from this editorial is “we want to open up the hearts of those all around us, peer in and see for ourselves what evil lurks in the hearts of men, women and neighbors” because this is not the way we should be treating others.
My Agenda Item is do you think the Patriot Act has helped or hurt this country and how do you feel about your freedoms with this new act in place?
Posted by Kayla Lukacs at April 7, 2005 04:07 PM | TrackBackI dont think that I am as free as I thought I once was after reading this essay. Racial profiling does bother me, it is also more so hurtful when it is done to you.
Posted by: Jasmine Urgent at April 13, 2005 06:51 PMI don't think Americans will ever be free. There will always be laws to limit our actions. Laws are a good thing to have, but technically Americans are not free because of the laws. To have complete freedom is to be able to do whatever a person want to do and the US will never have that. Americans I think are blessed to have as much freedom as we do though compared to other countries. The Patriot Act is just trying to keep Americans safe, but I don't think anything the US does will stop terrorists acts. The US can only do so much and if a terrorist wants to do something they will keep on trying until they succeed.
Posted by: Heather Chicotella at April 13, 2005 08:47 PMi think that the Partiot Act was kind of like a good thing and a bad thing.Heather is right when she says that americans cannot be free when there are laws because to be free means to be free of everything but however, Laws are supposed to be made because if people were left to do whatever they wanted the world would definitely not be better than what it is now
Posted by: ChinazomOnubogu at April 13, 2005 11:14 PM