Why We Should NOT Trust The Government

When the government was first created it was something we could rely on, to keep us safe, and something we could trust, but it has been many years since, and many innovations later.It used to be somewhat hard to steal documents, and put people’s personal information out into the world. But with new technology and more people working for the government, it has become much easier.We should not trust our government because, they have had information leaks, and scandals.
The government has had scandal's from within.In 1974 people tried to steal top secret documents.These men were on president Nixon’s committee to re-elect the president. Nixon and his committee could have possibly known before it happened.After the scandal came out to the public’s eyes, President Nixon tried to cover it up.Nixon paid hush money to the burglars and tried to stop the FBI from investigating the crime. This looks very suspicious for Nixon and his committee. Why would he cover it up? Unless, he was involved. When people found out that the president might have been involved, they were horrified.In the end president Nixon resigned, and Gerald ford excused all crimes Nixon could have committed (history.com). Americans began to question whether or not they should trust the government. …show more content…
There could be more people within the NSA willing to leak more information. Snowden began copying top-secret documents.When he had stockpiled enough of them he went to hong kong had gave them to journalists from the Guardian and a film maker. When had enough of the documents the guardian released them.The guardian released thousands of documents of people’s personal information (“Edward Snowden”).There is many reason’s why we shouldn’t trust the government but there is also many reason’s why we