Government Stalking

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The American Government so strong in its power protects its land by creating a safe and secure nation. However, with security comes a strong enforcement policy. The government watches over its citizens as if the government were a hawk stalking its prey. After all, they are the ones who give infants a social security number, a number of which they are depicted by until they take their very last breath. The Government has a tendency to grasp bulk information about the “numbered” residents who populate the country; they also are on the lookout for those who were never assigned a number. Although the government claims to be in search for illegal immigrants, the government also spends twice as much time watching over its own people to hold information …show more content…
They are considered a threat because they now look suspicious of hiding personal information all because they do not want the government knowing every single aspect of their life. The legal definition of stalking according to the “State Stalking Laws,” is the willful, malicious, and repeated following or harassing of another person, with the intent to place that person in fear of death or serious bodily injury. However, stalking is not always when there is a fear for one’s life. If somebody constantly watches another person and makes them feel so uncomfortable to the point where they fear for their life, then it is considered stalking. This is quite humorous, considering that the government places its citizens under a constant watch list. Considering that citizens are tagged with a number and are constantly monitored, that can potentially pose as a case of stalking. Yet when people do their research and gain knowledge regarding the government, depending on how good of a case they have and if they are able to get people to stand with them, they either randomly disappear, die of an unknown sickness, die of an overdose, or are killed. Which turns into a tale of conspiracies and are tossed to the side because to most people it only looks as if those people were murdered, suicidal, or at the wrong place at the wrong time. Yet when people try to understand and figure the conspiracies out, they cannot simply search it on the internet. They cannot simply go on the internet and search because firewalls that the government places, filters out any information that they do not want their citizens getting a hold of. It is a shame that citizens

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