Another View Point

Last Friday during the Socratic seminar I remember how Mrs. Fletcher brought up the question if our government could ever turn into one like in the book 1984. At first my mind was on a set no. I mentioned how our country is way too big with so many people and seeing how our country is built up by the main goal of freedom of the people, it just couldn't work. Unless of course, we were under attack and taken over by a new super power then yea it could happen.  Well anyways… this is what I believed at first but after putting in more thought it may not actually turn out to be so impossible. If you have read my past blog post about Government Surveillance then you would know that I was stumped on the whole necessary and proper clause situation and if it would give the government a reason to spy on us. Since I’m still a bit confused on that lets say that the necessary and proper clause did let the government have a tighter hold on surveillance. After taking that first step into invading our original rights what is there to stop them from finding another reason to take it a step further later on in the future? To put it in other words, what is there to stop someone from making an unfair choice again after not being punished or stopped for doing it the first time? I still can’t see our country falling into such a state like 1984 but in a way I can see it brainwashing our people into believing what we have is freedom and what the government is doing is justice and protecting us. In Oceania, the people were closed off from the outside world like the people in North Korea for instance so because of that fact it’s a lot easier for them to keep a more tighter hold and tell them only what they want them to know about the outside world. For us on the other hand, we always get new immigrants with knowledge of a world outside the states and our own people constantly travel outside to see the world for themselves. So you can’t really brainwash them in the way Big Brother did in 1984 but I still don’t believe we are entirely safe or at least the future generation won’t be. All I know (more like what I believe) is that the Government is plotting something that we aren't aware of and if we don’t stop them in their tracks any way we can it’s just going to get worse as time goes by. In the end with this in mind, I’ll probably forget about it at one point and continue the “freedom” I do have and enjoy my life with it.