Debate__Wire_Tapping

Debate: Wire Tapping The United States of America was once a symbol of liberty and a gateway of opportunity for oppressed citizens of the world. Today this idea of “one nation under God” is slowly being torn away into a more intrusive government, taking away our Civil liberties and God-given rights. Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, questions on safety and liberty have been bubbling to the surface. The people of America, though devastated by these attacks, seek refuge from terrorism but also from an all-knowing government. Recently the Bush administration has proposed a plan to rewrite surveillance laws depriving provisions so that reasonable persons can be presumed to know when they are breaking the law. The administration’s package is asking for laws to widen the time period that a suspect can be observed by wire-tapping and to do so without notification by the suspect. It is this proposal by Bush’s administration that shows how their rights are being violated. Congress seems to be forgetting that numerous laws like Due Process and the Fourth Amendment protect civilians. The due process of law states that the courts of justice use established and sanctioned legal procedures to investigate with safeguards for the protection of individual america, rights, protection, government, being, suspect, security, laws, law, idea, future, world, without, way, states, stamping, shows, seems, seem, seek, reveals, record, protect, process, privacy, police, picture, people, orwell’s, novel, necessary, liberty, imagine, human, freedom, fear, evidence, enforcement, due, conviction, boot, book, away, attacks, administration, , years, wrote, wrongdoing, written, wire-tapping