Monday, December 10, 2007
My Favorite Topic
It is hard for me to decide which topic has been my favorite this semester. I learned a lot from each of the topics and every one of them has something that interests me. I'm torn between my own blog on Wal-Mart which is something that is very dear to me but I think my favorite topic was the surveillance topic. The article written by Ted Koppel, "Take My Privacy Please" was one that really kept my interest. Everything that he touched on was something that I had thought about but didn't really pay too much attention to. I didn't want to be another paranoid, conspiracy theorist but this facts are out there. Every day we trade in our privacy for so called safety when we aren't even sure who we are being protected against. If someone is going to do us harm, there is no GPS, Onstar, or VeriChip that will be able to save us. Surveillance covers so many aspects of our lives that it is hard to get away from. In times of tragedy or war, the public is so much more complacent with the government watching what is going on and sometimes they take advantage of the nations vulernablity. It is so easy to give away our privacy for safety and a piece of mind. It is sad that we can not trust our government enough to protect us for good reasons and not for them to take advantage.
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A thoughtful post.
Yes our government has to be watching in order to keep us safe. But, at the same time we need to be watching the government to make sure that there are clear lines, and rules that prevent the government from becoming a threat to our civil liberties.
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Yes our government has to be watching in order to keep us safe. But, at the same time we need to be watching the government to make sure that there are clear lines, and rules that prevent the government from becoming a threat to our civil liberties.
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