Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Blog # 11 - Final Essay #3

Stephanie Ramsaran
Eng. 101
Nov, 27 2012

                                                              Unethical Matters
Should our safety, make us forget the reason why the United States of America is the land of the free? Our federal government has taken our safety to extreme matters, putting it over our privacy and rights. By disrupting the laws that had been signed centuries ago, with events such as Airport profiling, and Stop and Frisk Tactics from police officers, portrayed in articles. Also privacy being invaded shown in movies, like “Minority Report”. The government should give us the protection they promised in an unethical matter.


Ever since the horrible effect of 9/11 terrorist attack our country has been running on fear. This fear I speak of has frequently taken over our airports. From having enhanced x-ray machines to the intense security checks. Based on the article “Racial Profiling Rife at Airport” (Citied #1) by the New York Times, portrays this event. In the state Boston, More than 30 federal officers in the Boston airport developed a program, which were intended to spot potential terrorists, however this operation has become a racial profiling event. By targeting not only Middle Easterners but other color minorities disrupting their rights, discriminating others by the color of their skin. As said by a police officer, “They just pull aside anyone who they don’t like the way they look -if they are black and have expensive clothes or jewelry, or if they are Hispanic”. Stating that officers usually are Judging people just because the way they look, happens to be suspicious to them. Also as said by an anonymous officer, “The behavior detection program is no longer a behavior- based program, but a racial profiling program”. Even an officers explains that this has become to a racial event, only searching those of colored. This operation is not helping our country have the protection we need, its causing more disruption between our government and our people.

Police Officers had sworn upon the laws of helping our country become safe, has become corrupted. As described in the newspaper article “Prosecutor Testifies on Stop-and-Frisk Tactics”(Citied #2) by the New York Times. Officers from the Bronx district were testified for wrongly stopping and arresting innocent individuals for trespassing. “Her staff of prosecutors began telling her that they had found instances in which the defendants lived in the very buildings where the arrest occurred”(Rucker). Which explains that officers arrested individuals for trespassing when they lived in the building for the first place, due to the officers just not liking their appearance. Our countries police officers have taken our safety by their judgment of others. Making it even impossible for individuals to feel safe in their own homes.

By having ethical matters being done for our protection, our free will has taken a toll. Free will is the ability us humans have to make our own decisions and expressing our self. Based on the article “Free will and Determinism”(Citied #3), written by Michael Huemer goes in deep detail that free will is important for a human to have. “Traditionally, having free will is the thought to require two things: alternate possibilities and self control.” (Pg104, Huemers). Explains the thought that with our government displacing ethical matters to make our country safe, they are slowly taking away the thought of free will we have grown upon. By limiting humans possibilities, such as checking in on citizens phone calls, internet searches and even library book checkouts. Violations to our privacy has taken a toll, and most citizens don’t realize this.

Disrupting the natural rights we hold dear, should not be allowed for any reasons. In the movie “Minority Report” (Citied #4), a system called Pre-crime is used to reduce crime by arresting humans before the crime has actually been committed. Using special individuals called “precogs”, who are able to predict a murder crime before it ever happens. This strong system had many flaws due to the fact, how can you arrest someone for a crime they never committed ?. The Pre-crime system, violated the privacy and natural rights to the human race, by not allowing others hold their own fate in their own hands. John Anderton, the head cop of the pre-crime , proved the system not trustworthy when he chose to change his own destiny by not killing a man he was predetermined to kill. By disrupting our rights and our choices, it’s human less to judge one another by something that never even happened.

In conclusion, our society should not find the protection of our country by using ethical matters. As humans we were told the United states of America, is the country of the free, However the government seems to take our safety before our own dignity. Taking away the natural laws we have grown upon, by racial profiling, wrong police stopping’s and taking away our free will. Even taking away individuals privacy in their lives, being watched for every step they take. This is an immortal step our government has taken and it needs to be stopped.

 

 

Work Citied Page :

Citied #1

: Schmidt, and, Lichtblau. "Racial Profiling Rife at Airport, U.S Officers Say." New York Times [Boston ] 11 8 2012, Early ed n. pag. Print.

Citied #2

:Goldstein. "Prosecutor Testifies on Stop-and-Frisk Tactics ." New York Times [Bronx] 15 10 2012, Early ed n. pag. Print.

Citied #3

: Huemer , Micheal . "Free Will and Determinism in The World of Minority Report ." Trans. Array Science Fiction and Philosophy . Susan Schneider . USA: Wiley-Blackwell , 2009. 103-112. Print.

 

Citied #4

: Minority Report, Dr.Steven Spielberg. Perf Tom Cruise. Amblin, 2002. Flim.

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