Editorial #4 (Speaking Out)

The NSA have tapped phones, invaded our privacy, and many other privacy issues since the Patriot acts were passed. These actions break the 4th amendment and should be changed or completely taken out. The Patriot Act is unconstitutional and the people need to speak out against the government about these unfair and illicit activities. The book Night by Elie Wiesel shows the power of speaking out against the government. Elie shows that people can stand up to the government and how strong they can be if they unite together. Even a judge speaking about the NSA said, “that part of its collection program is likely unconstitutional,” and that what has happened and is still happening is against the law of The United States of America (“Task Force Calls for New NSA Limits” 1). Like in the book, people need to stand up to the government and challenge the constitutionalism of the actions being taken by this government agency. In the book the people use their courage to stand up to the Nazi who torture them and show people what is right and wrong. The NSA is putting their power to improper use much like the Nazi did in Elie Wiesel’s book, hiding the truth about the spying it is doing on the American population and foreign countries. According to a report about NSA spying, Germany “is among the countries that are the focus of surveillance. Thus, the documents confirm what had already been suspected for some time in government circles in Berlin -- that the US intelligence service, with approval from the White House, is spying on the Germans,” ("Secret Documents: NSA." 1). These actions show what the NSA is listening to and what the people and other countries are saying about it! This type of behavior should not be tolerated and should be quickly expelled from our society.

Work Cited

"Secret Documents: NSA Targeted Germany and EU Buildings." SPIEGEL ONLINE. N.p.,

n.d. Web. 06 Jan. 2014.

<http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-documents-nsa-targeted-germany-and-eu-buildings-a-908609.html.>

"Task Force Calls for New NSA Limits." Fox News. FOX News Network, n.d. Web. 05 Jan.

2014.

<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/18/task-force-calls-for-reining-in-nsa-spying/>.

Wiesel, Elie, and Marion Wiesel. Night. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a Division of

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. Print.

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