Edward Snowden: Should The Government Protect Our Safety?

I strongly believe that the government should take its full measures to protect our safety. Our safety should be government’s first concern, because it’s its duty to serve the citizens. However, there should be limits placed on the government in this process. The government should be able to access any information, even if it means look through our private chats, but not to the extent where it can enable webcams to see what each person is doing. In the movie when the investigator is tracking down Tom Wilkinson, in order to get information about his sister in law, he enables the webcam and sees her get undressed. Enabling a webcam to see what each citizen is doing is clearly a violation of the first amendment and should not be allowed even if the government is enabling it for our safety. Giving such rights to the government, will cause some officials in the department to misuse their powers. Therefore, I think the government should be …show more content…
With more advanced resources, it made it easy for the government to collect information, which makes it hard for me to personally trust the government with such capabilities. After watching the entire film, I strongly think Edward Snowden is a Patriot because he takes responsibility and puts his own life in danger for the public good. It was an illegal activity that was kept in secret by the government, so he took control and he opened up the truth to American people. I would consider a traitor as someone who exposes the government’s billarant plans that are created for citizens’ safety to a rival country. However, that wasn’t what happened. In addition, if he had stayed in Hawaii after his first revelations, then he would have been arrested and would not have accomplished his task completely. I think he should be proud of what he did because he severed his duty to his