Anti-Government Surveillance In The United States

Anti-Government Surveillance

The United States of America is based on freedom and holds capabilities citizens would never have in any other country. Although this is the case, we Americans aware that there is a price for the freedom they were given? “There is no such thing as a free lunch” a saying repeated by many hard-working Americans. Little does the population know that this indeed relates to them as well? Much like any other country, Americans government has kept their civilization in the dark of their true colors. Evidence has surfaced as early as the 1920’s that the government has had surveillance of the population without their knowledge. Extending their surveillance, the government has now invaded on innocent’s
An event such as 9/11 causes the world to take extra safety precautions in order for such a thing to never happen again. The Patriot Act signed into law roughly fourteen to fifteen days after 9/11, and detailed that the Act would allow the government the tools they needed to prevent any other act of terrorism in order to strengthen America. The Patriot Act has become clear evidence the government has participated in unnecessary supervision over the United States population. When 9/11 took place, many different changes took place, but the Patriot Act was the first of many changes to government surveillance and it quickly turned into spying on ordinary lives of Americans but hoped to catch criminals. There has been numerous NSL (National Security Letter) reports filed, a few resulted in criminal referrals were ordered to prosecutors it is said one led to a terror-related conviction, which would have occurred with or without the Patriot Act. NSL’s that had been sent out under the protection of the Patriot Act, -which resulted in no relation to terrorism. For example, “Between 2003 and 2005, the FBI made 53 reported criminal referrals to all prosecutors as result of 143,074 NSL’s. 53 reported criminal referrals and zero were for terrorism.” (“Surveillance Under” 1). The Patriot Act was put in place to catch the terrorists in which it is not
As far as it is known, there is nothing illegal about the NSA programs and there is no evidence to prove abuse if authority, well other than the obvious issues. The NSA knows all and sees all, they have the ability to keep what they do a secret and if a story were to surface, they have the ability to make sure it never gets out to the public. Americans will remain left out of what goes on behind closed doors, what the NSA wants to remain silenced will remain deadly quiet. The NSA happens to be protected by checks and balance and is put into place to keep the country safe of any real threats, but there is little to no privacy. Snowden spoke about how they live in a world where every interaction with a person and action is done is documented. Meaning, the government has pushed passed its limits and goes beyond spoken efforts to find out the information they need with or without a court appeal. In this very moment, what is happening is being documented as unusual “Evidence” needed to keep safely filed for NSA’s future