How To Prevent The 1st Amendment Essay

The quote by Howard Zinn claiming that the 1st Amendment is whatever the cop reporting the situation says is a very horrifying statement. The 1st Amendment is the rights that every man and woman have to speak their mind and act lawfully. Law enforcement officers job is to protect their community and make sure that the laws are being obeyed. The job of law enforcement is not too dress up in full military gear and tear gas masks and act like a military force. The events that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri need to be closely examined because the actions of those police officers cannot and will not ever be allowed in society. The approach to a crowd should never be to anger them and give them a reason to turn hostile and begin rioting. There is a very fine line between what a law enforcement officer can do to protect himself without impeaching on a citizens rights as a human. Its essential that a …show more content…
With both the Obama and the Bush administrations gathering billions of dollars to make sure our nation would be safe. After 9/11 communities that have never seen high crime rates were receiving fully automatic weapons, boxes and boxes of ammunition, high-grade scanners, and militarized vehicles. I understand why officials would think that all these would be beneficial but in the end it turned our local law enforcement into a paramilitary. This was not and never should be the model that local law enforcement should ever operate under. I recognize that both 9/11 and the war on drugs are both reasons why elected officials may feel the need to have such a strong police force but these officials must remember the rights given to a citizen through the Constitution comes first. The 1st Amendment right to free speech and freedom of religion allow for a citizen to fully express himself or herself, and that is what made America into the greatest nation in the world