Persuasive Essay On The Bill Of Rights

"I believe that it is not a duty of the government to monitor internet content, unless there is an extreme circumstance where the public would be in danger. It is the first amendment right of the people to utilize their own free speech. This is very important, and we will always need to keep in mind what was intended when the Bill of Rights was created. When we start to limit free speech, we are hindering the speed and quality of ideas that could otherwise be spread very quickly and efficiently. Considering events such as the leaks that state that “The NSA is turning the internet into a total surveillance system”, the government is considering everyone using the internet a potential suspect, completely ignoring the fact that the people of the United States should always be considered innocent until proven guilty. If we are always on guard about having to word things the

right way without getting in trouble, the idea that we had in our mind will go through a “telephone game” in our head, and it will lose most of the important things that we had on our mind.
With all of the recent terrorist attacks, I see how our rights have gone under scrutiny, but we must stay strong in our resolve as a country.

While the internet may be in the sights of politicians, we need to keep in mind the fact that many people use the internet daily, and monitoring everything that this country does is a violation of what our country stands for, we deserve to be treated with the respect that our BIll of Rights grants us, because if we start to create more and more exceptions, we will eventually be no better than the countries that treat their own people as being lesser just because they are not born in a position of power. In order to keep the American Dream strong in our hearts, we need to practice what we preach as a country, and give our people the chance to prove themselves. While there truly are evil people everywhere, we cannot single citizens out just because of something that they said online was taken out of context and picked out by some robot, we need concrete evidence that was fairly obtained, in order to keep us together instead of tearing us apart as a

nation.
There are many more efficient ways to remedy the unstable times that we are dealing with right now. Monitoring everything that the public does will only create more separation and mistrust. Instead of focusing so much on what each individual is doing, we need to bring our country together, and make sure that we don’t demonize the American people. Instead, we need to give everyone the equal opportunity to share their own ideas and be heard. Government surveillance from a government is a double edged sword, and for the benefit of stopping a few crazy people every once in a while, it is not worth the downside of spreading the idea of mistrust throughout the general public. Government surveillance is a very complicated topic, and it must be looked at it from many different angles before we reach a final conclusion, but I believe that the government has no rights to treat every American as a criminal without any warrant or reasonable suspicion.
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