Argumentative Essay: Should The Government Surveillance?

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Why are we so worried about being watch? It’s not like you’re doing anything wrong, right? Surveillance is a very talked about topic as of the present day. Should the government or any funded entity have the ability to watch us? Ask yourself this, are you doing anything wrong. I think the government should have surveillance, because for this reason, to prevent harm to the people of our nation.
The government or any public funded entity should surveillance to maintain order. Many will argue that we should have our privacy and leave it at that. If the government did not have regulations on the people how would they protect us? Ask yourself this, what is more important, your privacy or national security?
Many Americans expressed their disapproval as two classified operations were exposed. Examples of the government spying on their own people, through phones internet services etc. “Yet, most showed little concern about their own internet activities or phone calls being monitored”(Conchar 14). I believe this is to battle against terrorism and keep America safe.
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I think would what people are afraid of, will it fall in the wrong hands? As seen in the CodeBreaker “I’ll tune it to the frequency of the listening device I placed in the spine of reference book on it’s to his left-the one titled Law and Ethics.”... (Petry 5). That device Bolts used was a type of surveillance, is the government watching us secretly? Anyone can get hold of this technology as we saw also in CodeBreaker. He watched them through the security cameras. Bolts might have been on a different thinking level but with a little time and practice anyone could do this. This is why the government uses surveillance in order to deter or prevent the events that transpired in the

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