“Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates… To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.” was once said by Alexander Hamilton.
Being safe from threats is what wiretapping will bring to innocent people, even if that does mean having the slight chance of losing privacy and freedom. Wiretapping is when a device is connected to a telephone to monitor its conversations. Government organizations should be allowed to wiretap so they can catch criminals, protect innocent people, and your privacy will not be compromised.
Wiretapping has proven to be effective in putting criminals in jail. On multiple occasions wiretapping has been used to catch terrorists. In the article “NSA wiretapping helped foil NYC subway bomb plot, source claims” it states that back in 2009 …show more content…
For a legal wiretap to be performed a warrant needs to be issued. In the article “Marc Thiessen: Leaks, not the NSA programs, deserve condemnation” it reads “In the case of the PRISM program, the NSA is targeting foreign nationals, not U.S. citizens, and not even individuals in the United States. And all of this collection is being done with a warrant, issued by a federal judge, under authorities approved by Congress” (Thiessen). So when warrants are issued it eliminated that risk of every citizen being wiretapped. That doesn’t sound like 1984 was predicting the United States’s future. Warrants are only issued when just cause it shown, so people will only be wiretapped if they are performing suspicious behaviors. So U.S. citizens and innocent people will not have to worry about their privacy being lost because if they are not performing suspicious deeds then they will not be wiretapped. If someone appears to be performing criminal acts then they should be
Being safe from threats is what wiretapping will bring to innocent people, even if that does mean having the slight chance of losing privacy and freedom. Wiretapping is when a device is connected to a telephone to monitor its conversations. Government organizations should be allowed to wiretap so they can catch criminals, protect innocent people, and your privacy will not be compromised.
Wiretapping has proven to be effective in putting criminals in jail. On multiple occasions wiretapping has been used to catch terrorists. In the article “NSA wiretapping helped foil NYC subway bomb plot, source claims” it states that back in 2009 …show more content…
For a legal wiretap to be performed a warrant needs to be issued. In the article “Marc Thiessen: Leaks, not the NSA programs, deserve condemnation” it reads “In the case of the PRISM program, the NSA is targeting foreign nationals, not U.S. citizens, and not even individuals in the United States. And all of this collection is being done with a warrant, issued by a federal judge, under authorities approved by Congress” (Thiessen). So when warrants are issued it eliminated that risk of every citizen being wiretapped. That doesn’t sound like 1984 was predicting the United States’s future. Warrants are only issued when just cause it shown, so people will only be wiretapped if they are performing suspicious behaviors. So U.S. citizens and innocent people will not have to worry about their privacy being lost because if they are not performing suspicious deeds then they will not be wiretapped. If someone appears to be performing criminal acts then they should be