While searching for a video of interest to post, I came across this video(Click for video). In the video, it reports how the U.S. wants to pass a bill in which FBI agents dont need a motive or any evidence in investigating a crime. Everyone can be investigated without a reason. I think this is getting a little out of hand. The government already has too much control on individuals as it is. We have cameras installed in every possible area, street, and block in most of the country. I think this is categorizing every single person in the U.S. as a criminal. The message that U.S. citizens will get from this is that everyone is a criminal unless proven innocent. From what I understand from growing up, I thought that the correct motto was ” everyone is innocent unless proven guilty”. This is one of those moments in a nations history where the times are truly changing. I was born in 1985 and even though crimes did happen, I remember being able to leave the front door of my house open and unlocked and we werent so cautious about who our neighbors were and what they did. We werent so closely monitored and crimes were less than today. Nowadays, with the street cameras and surveillance, it seems that crime has risen. We basically are like animals stuck in a cage and the government is in control of us. I think people will get fed up with this new law and feel that since we are all categorized as criminals as a nation, why not act like a criminal anyway. I really hope that this bill does not pass because criminals are supposed to be the minority not the majority.
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This is definitely going to far. What happened to the 4th amendment? That no unreasonable searches and seizures. Everywhere we go we are being watched but for someone to stop us for no apparent reason is too much. If this law is passed it will really make me feel uncomfortable. Your blog post is similar to what I posted; in which the government is creating a new gadget to take random pictures of suspects, which will give power to police officers to also stop people for their retina scan. I feel like by creating all these laws for our “security”, the government is characterizing traits of tyranny. America is a land of liberties and freedom the government is to ensure these rights, the constitution was designed to protect us from unlawful searches but the government is suppressing those rights. I think if this law is passes on it will lead to harassment and abuse of power. More stricter rules by the government urge the criminals to be more cunning and smarter in their criminal activities, this consequently result in the normal people of such societies to suffer. Benjamin Franklin once said “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” The democratic government has no right to take away peoples liberties for the namesake of security and ‘protecting us’.
Although, I think FBI and other higher government agents have already investigate on people without permission from court, but they probably only risk their trust on those suspects that are highly likely to be related to crimes.
I agree with what you are saying about the privacy, but i think that one of the reasons FBI is pushing this law is that the government and citizen alike are usually too/very concern about things that might be/could be happen, even if i believe the street is safer than what we think.
To be fair FBI and government are supposed to protect us, and if they can search suspects’ information freely, this isn’t a bad thing, as long as it is necessary, for example a crime has happened and suspect’s found. however, what i really concern is how they use these information, and whether or not those information will be safely stored.
like the term “eyes on the street”, everyone is checking on what other is doing, and by doing so, people are acting and doing things that are generally accepted by everyone. So not only do cameras are doing their job in public places, but we are also making sure that things are normal and as usual.
Constant surveillance and policing is a double edge sword. A surveillance camera being visible is a deterrent for many would-be criminals. I actually happen to feel a sense of safety when I see cameras in our banks and and our street corners.
This proposed law, if enacted will eliminate whatever privacy we as a people have remaining.
The problem one cant completely stop an individual from committing a crime. He or she will find a way to circumvent technologies that are used for tracking purposes. As a result a new breed of crime will eventually arise: for example, cyberspace crime.
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