Prompt: Sometimes personal rights must be given up un order to protect us from those who could be a danger to all of us.
The key word in the prompt is sometimes. To keep the whole of our country safe, someones rights are going to have to be given up and taken eventually. However, you have to have a balance, and realize that from whom you take the rights must be the person that is a threat, or you need to take away as little rights as possible. If somebody is a danger to the people, they should be forced to give up the rights to own a gun, or the rights to not be searched at random. But, not everybody should be able to have their rights taken away. Me, for example. The only thing I’ve ever done is download illegal music, and it kind of freaks me out that the government can listen to my phone or come into my house without me knowing it.
According to the PATRIOT ACT, the FBI can search anything they want, anytime they want, weather it be with probable cause or not. I’ve only seen one side of the argument, and although I think I understand both sides, I don’t think the PATRIOT ACT is a very fair deal. What if the government is wasting their time following my Justin Bieber downloads when a real terrorist might live right up the street from me? I am struggling to wrap my head around all this, but my very basic opinion is that being able to search anything they want is wrong.
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