V for Vendetta
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Terrorism is a growing problem on the world today, and the government has started to take away our liberties and enforcing more security by having the ability to search our homes, monitor our phone calls, emails, and even arrest us based on assumptions for the sake to keep us “safe”. Our government is simply stepping over constitutional boundaries. The right to our privacies are protected by the 4th Amendment in the Constitution, which bans unreasonable “search and seizure”. When the government collects and shares information about its citizens, that is considered an electronic version of such banned searches. There is also a whole other side of the argument, stating that security is ultimately one of the most important rights we get. This argument states that most rights are not absolute but have to be balanced against other rights. For example, the right to free speech does not allow you to shout “fire” in a crowded theatre, because people may be killed in a rush for the exits. In the same way, any right to privacy is by no means absolute, and Americans already allow the government to control some of their private actions. Any intrusions on privacy for the sake of security would be minimal, and the most important rights would still be respected. In V for Vendetta, V, both a victim of government control and a citizen, stands up against the government for his rights in a goal to burn down parliament. He fights for not only his own personal security, but for his liberties that the government is taking away.
A governments basic responsibilities to its people is to protect them from conflicts and provide law and order. The government can overstep their boundaries of an individuals rights, like their email, by just saying they needed to in the “name of national security”. I would rather live in a society with too much government, meaning I want an even bigger government. I want more voices. I truly believe that without a government,