Searching through private messages and records does not actually ensure the safety of the community because sometimes key threats are not quite detectable in the first place. In light of the recent shooting in San Bernardino, articles about newer information identify one of the shooters as a woman named Tashfeen Malik. Julia Preston from The New York Times reports about the Homeland security checks that Malik passed without problems last year when she applied for a marital visa and green card. Malik allegedly posted extremist messages after arriving in America, which may have concerned some of her family members, but generally, the people around her and her husband did not expect such behaviors from them. In a Los Angeles Times article Malik’s
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In numerous interview or speeches, North Korean refugees describe the inhumane treatment of those who have the slightest doubt about the social system. In the Human Rights Watch video on youtube, “Eyewitnesses Explain the Crimes of North Korea,” refugees recall their experiences from the concentration camps that are present even today in the regime. One man, Lee Young-Kuk, was a former personal bodyguard to Kim Jong Il for a decade, but he was arrested in China for making critical statements about the country, which was followed by torture and imprisonment. If a government has the power to irrationally penalize someone simply due to the emphasis on national security, society becomes an increasingly dangerous one to live in. The North Korean regime is extreme, but even U.S. took extreme efforts depicted by the Japanese internment camps during World War II less than 100 years ago. Compared to a world where the government has access to all personal conversations and private information, a world where the government has no power to attain such information on behalf of national security is more fair and
In numerous interview or speeches, North Korean refugees describe the inhumane treatment of those who have the slightest doubt about the social system. In the Human Rights Watch video on youtube, “Eyewitnesses Explain the Crimes of North Korea,” refugees recall their experiences from the concentration camps that are present even today in the regime. One man, Lee Young-Kuk, was a former personal bodyguard to Kim Jong Il for a decade, but he was arrested in China for making critical statements about the country, which was followed by torture and imprisonment. If a government has the power to irrationally penalize someone simply due to the emphasis on national security, society becomes an increasingly dangerous one to live in. The North Korean regime is extreme, but even U.S. took extreme efforts depicted by the Japanese internment camps during World War II less than 100 years ago. Compared to a world where the government has access to all personal conversations and private information, a world where the government has no power to attain such information on behalf of national security is more fair and