Stop NSA Spying
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HOW IT STARTED
MY SPAIN TRIP
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Spain 2013
Spain 2013
Spain 2013
Spain 2013
THE RETURN
When I got home to the United States I noticed not much had changed, which was expected. I get to my house, have some home cooking, and watch the news to see what America's been doing for the past month. A bunch of typical stories take up some airtime and then BAM, the news anchors start to give updates on the month-long headliner involving "Edward Snowden" and "NSA Spying." As I watched more and more about the story I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
IT ALL STARTED WITH A TRIP TO SPAIN
During my senior year of highschool I was fortunate enough to be invited by my friend to go on an all expenses payed vacation to Spain for a month during the summer. The morning after I graduated from high-school I jumped on a plane and left the great states, and also leaving behind all contact to the United States. I saw a lot of cool things and some not so cool things. I noticed a lot of things wrong with Spain's government system, for example, Spain's unemployment rate is above 50%. After hearing such examples of their bad government, I always thought of how great it was to live in such a great, free place known as the USA.
I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT
A huge organization of the government had been outed by a former employee about their spying on ALL United States Citizens. I expected there to be rioting and protests and huge public outcries, yet nothing. I thought back to how little had changed when I got back from Spain, America basically had no long-term reactions. My thoughts in Spain about how great America was were completely falsified. America had rolled over on it's side and accepted that to achieve freedom they must give up their privacy, which directly goes against what America was founded upon. "It's too bad a young man had to sacrifice everything, and become a fugitive who will likely spend the rest of his life unable to return to the U.S., to inspire this oversight."
MY OPINION
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" -Ben Franklin. In the society we live in today everyone has a voice because of the interconnected devices such as phones and computers. Recently, everyone found out that it's now more a double sword than anything with NSA collecting all of our information. As quoted by the one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Ben Franklin refers to the whole reason we seceded from Great Britain, to have freedom. The present state of the America is not what I would call "free" anymore. Obama claims that our country cannot have 100% freedom and 100% security. Well, apparently the NSA is catching terrorists left and right? Maybe we are and the government isn't telling us, but what about Sandy Hook or even more importantly the Boston Bombers? The so-called full proof system should have set off some alerts for 2 suspicious guys going to Chechnya and buying all the ingredients to make pressure cooker bombs. We sacrifice a lot for a system that doesn't even work. With all the big protests we were able to create like occupy wall street, why is America just rolling over and accepting defeat in this case. We have voices why stop now? The government, the establishment built to protect our civil liberties, is violating the exact thing it vowed to protect. This isn't right for the government to have all of our personal information, it isn't freedom, it isn't America.