Language can be used to invoke feelings upon another. Language can strike any emotion, such as love, happiness, anxiety, paranoia, fear, etc. The United States of America has had its fair share of using language to play with it’s citizens’ emotions. The nation’s 40th president, Ronald Reagan, brought the citizens to the truth by one of his most famous quotes: “The most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Those nine words may be the most terrifying words in the English language because of the US government’s past actions, current actions, as well as who and why are they helping. Ronald Reagan was able to use his usage of language to educate the people and become memorable. Feelings
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This is not the case with US government. After wronging the people once and then apologizing “fashionably late”, the government goes back on it’s word and this time wrongs the entire nation. The current incident is the leak of information about the National Security Agency spying on the people’s conversations through electronics. Keith Devlin, a professor as well as a senior researcher at Stanford University, felt that the NSA betrayed him and the entire nation. “‘As things currently stand, I would not collaborate further with any of the U.S. intelligence services. They have betrayed all of us who were glad to do what we could for the benefit of the free world and have used our work to trample over the Fourth Amendment, to do immense harm to U.S. economic competitiveness, to weaken the Internet on which modern society depends, and to expose us to increased danger from our enemies. I urge all my fellow citizens to make a similar stand”’ (Devlin). The Constitution of they Unite States is the very backbone of the nation, and it was put in place to not only create they United States of America, but to protect the citizens. How should the citizen’s of the US feel about the government if their very rights are omitted by the government? The government will win no one’s heart by spying on citizens with no real reason, but instead worsen the morale of the
This is not the case with US government. After wronging the people once and then apologizing “fashionably late”, the government goes back on it’s word and this time wrongs the entire nation. The current incident is the leak of information about the National Security Agency spying on the people’s conversations through electronics. Keith Devlin, a professor as well as a senior researcher at Stanford University, felt that the NSA betrayed him and the entire nation. “‘As things currently stand, I would not collaborate further with any of the U.S. intelligence services. They have betrayed all of us who were glad to do what we could for the benefit of the free world and have used our work to trample over the Fourth Amendment, to do immense harm to U.S. economic competitiveness, to weaken the Internet on which modern society depends, and to expose us to increased danger from our enemies. I urge all my fellow citizens to make a similar stand”’ (Devlin). The Constitution of they Unite States is the very backbone of the nation, and it was put in place to not only create they United States of America, but to protect the citizens. How should the citizen’s of the US feel about the government if their very rights are omitted by the government? The government will win no one’s heart by spying on citizens with no real reason, but instead worsen the morale of the