It is important to have
multiple viewpoints on the problem of NSA spying. In the government, people
like Dick Cheney said “That intelligence capability is enormously important to
the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, um, to the defense matters,
uh, to economic matters,” and that gaining intelligence on threatening
activities is important for the national security of the United States (“Dick
Cheney to CNN” 1). People must understand that what the government (or media)
tells people is not always the truth. Having the viewpoint that intelligence
gathering is helpful for national security, someone must also understand that
the NSA is not only spying on some forms of threats but they are also
collecting data on everyone, trying to build an archive of information on
people which “is intrusive, violates privacy, and empowers untrustworthy state
officials with information that is too easily abused,” (“Hit & Run Blog”
1). If someone only saw and understands what the government tells them, they
would believe that NSA data recording would be the best idea for everyone, when
in reality, it is actually a morally and legally wrong thing to do as it can
lead to major problems like misuse that has already happened. This topic of
believing beyond what a governmental body could be shown in Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi where she talked about how the Iranian people were also not
told everything when the new Islamic Regime was taking over the country. The
fundamentalist government killed anyone who opposed them in secrecy and chose
not to talk about it, instead telling the people that all is fine and that
there is nothing to fear. To fully understand the troubles of the NSA spying on
people or how the Islamic Regime was hiding information from the citizens while
torturing others, any person must look at it from a view beyond what the
government is trying to persuade them to believe.
Work Cited
"Dick Cheney to CNN's Jake Tapper on Edward Snowden: I
Think He's a Traitor...I
Hope We Can Catch Him at Some Point." CNN
Press Room RSS. N.p., n.d. Web.
04 Jan. 2014.
<http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/28/dick-cheney-to-cnns-jake-tapper-on-edward-snowden-i-think-hes-a-traitor-i-hope-we-can-catch-him-at-some-point/>.
J. D., Tuccille. “It Still
Doesn't Matter if NSA Spying is Legal, It's Wrong
Anyway.” Reason.com.
N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Dec. 2013. <http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/12/it-still-doesnt-matter-if-nsa-spying-is>.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. New York, NY:
Pantheon, 2003. Print.
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