Dear Senators Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio,
It has been brought to my attention that the Government has access to surveillance systems that can monitor our phone calls, text messages, emails and etc if needed. I agree that the government should have this right, but I believe there must be some strict guidelines placed in order to ensure the personal privacy of citizens.
While discussing this topic, it may seem scary to think as a citizen, that everything in our personal lives isn’t as private as we imagined it to be. But, the questions we all seem to ask ourselves about this issue is, “Why is all of our information so important to the government anyways?” or, “I haven’t done anything wrong, so why would they need to look at my texts or listen to my phone calls?”, and last but not least, “How is this legal? I plead the 4th!” The answer to these questions is simple and is spoken on by past President Barack Obama’s speech on National Security Agency (NSA) …show more content…
Nelson and Mr. Rubio, would you mind telling me if my facts are correct? After some extensive research I have learned that it was President George Bush who signed the agreement allowing the NSA, “to monitor without a warrant the international (and sometimes domestic) telephone calls and e-mail messages of hundreds or thousands of citizens and legal residents inside the United States.”(Source 1, P.1) For example, “in the 1970s, America learned about the extensive domestic political spying carried out by the FBI, the military, the CIA, and the NSA, and Congress passed new laws to prevent a repeat of those abuses.” (Source 1, P.4) So senators, do you think that it was right that it had taken such abusive results to require a change to the law, or do you think that once the problem first occurred,it should have been taken care of immediately? Either way, the past is in the past, so what we need to focus on now, is the present and what we can do to ensure that our people and our nation stay
It has been brought to my attention that the Government has access to surveillance systems that can monitor our phone calls, text messages, emails and etc if needed. I agree that the government should have this right, but I believe there must be some strict guidelines placed in order to ensure the personal privacy of citizens.
While discussing this topic, it may seem scary to think as a citizen, that everything in our personal lives isn’t as private as we imagined it to be. But, the questions we all seem to ask ourselves about this issue is, “Why is all of our information so important to the government anyways?” or, “I haven’t done anything wrong, so why would they need to look at my texts or listen to my phone calls?”, and last but not least, “How is this legal? I plead the 4th!” The answer to these questions is simple and is spoken on by past President Barack Obama’s speech on National Security Agency (NSA) …show more content…
Nelson and Mr. Rubio, would you mind telling me if my facts are correct? After some extensive research I have learned that it was President George Bush who signed the agreement allowing the NSA, “to monitor without a warrant the international (and sometimes domestic) telephone calls and e-mail messages of hundreds or thousands of citizens and legal residents inside the United States.”(Source 1, P.1) For example, “in the 1970s, America learned about the extensive domestic political spying carried out by the FBI, the military, the CIA, and the NSA, and Congress passed new laws to prevent a repeat of those abuses.” (Source 1, P.4) So senators, do you think that it was right that it had taken such abusive results to require a change to the law, or do you think that once the problem first occurred,it should have been taken care of immediately? Either way, the past is in the past, so what we need to focus on now, is the present and what we can do to ensure that our people and our nation stay