Fear can drive people to their extremes. Many people live in fear of their government and/ or other personal controlling in their society. Some people believe that the government is always right and that they do not lie. The government can cause “accidents” to happen and frame it on other ethnic cultures which cause a society to rely on the government. Fear causes suspicion, terror, and a government that is controlling popular belief. For a safe and civilized society fear tactics are necessary. To begin, fear arouses suspicion between people, which causes them to question each other’s actions. During the 1950s, many people were questioned on Communist activity, and would be kept under the watch of the government. This is just like the situation
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The government was controlling and watching the actions of people by taking some of citizen’s personal privacy away. Similar to the 1950s, during the witch trials, men were accusing people based on the words of other people and popular belief, and many people lost their jobs. During the McCarthy trials, the committee had no evidence that any of the people accused were active in the Communist party or as a sympathizer. Both events of these examples are parallel of each other even though they were different situations and time periods. Today, in our society, we have seen terror is used to keep people under the control of the government. While the government made safety precautions after 9/11, they added metal detectors and other security to airports. The TSA officers began to check the passenger’s personal luggage, and restricted the number of items one must be allowed on the plane. The new laws were stripping away rights by adding the security and having the participants submit to these laws. It is unconstitutional and it goes against the fourth amendment of the U.S. Constitution, “the rights of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no …show more content…
government has been working to control the American population for many years, but the hold has gotten tighter since the tragic events of 9/11. Who should the American people trust, if not the government? One may argue that the government is trustworthy and only has its people's best interests in mind. However, if one looks deeper into the points delivered in this essay, there is not much room to deny that the U.S. government is using fear tactics to control the population, which is not necessary to have an orderly and civilized society. Who would one trust? The government that controls one or one that has the right ideals of human
The government was controlling and watching the actions of people by taking some of citizen’s personal privacy away. Similar to the 1950s, during the witch trials, men were accusing people based on the words of other people and popular belief, and many people lost their jobs. During the McCarthy trials, the committee had no evidence that any of the people accused were active in the Communist party or as a sympathizer. Both events of these examples are parallel of each other even though they were different situations and time periods. Today, in our society, we have seen terror is used to keep people under the control of the government. While the government made safety precautions after 9/11, they added metal detectors and other security to airports. The TSA officers began to check the passenger’s personal luggage, and restricted the number of items one must be allowed on the plane. The new laws were stripping away rights by adding the security and having the participants submit to these laws. It is unconstitutional and it goes against the fourth amendment of the U.S. Constitution, “the rights of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no …show more content…
government has been working to control the American population for many years, but the hold has gotten tighter since the tragic events of 9/11. Who should the American people trust, if not the government? One may argue that the government is trustworthy and only has its people's best interests in mind. However, if one looks deeper into the points delivered in this essay, there is not much room to deny that the U.S. government is using fear tactics to control the population, which is not necessary to have an orderly and civilized society. Who would one trust? The government that controls one or one that has the right ideals of human