National securtiy vs. privacy

The Spy Amongst Us
September 11 was a wake up call for the whole country, tragic events on that date brought the world’s biggest power to a complete halt. This also brought forth sweeping changes in many sectors, one of them being National Security. Agencies that use to have certain autonomy such as the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the U.S. Coast Guard, just to name a couple, were grouped into what is now called the Department of Homeland Security. While it is essential to protect the American population and national interests; the goverment is threading the thin line between national security and invasion of privacy.
The whole notion of conspiracy theories and Big Brother has been a hot topic among liberals and civil liberty advocates for quite some time; but with the passing and implementation of the “Patriot Act”, the general population has a bigger interest for this topic. Unfortunately, the goverment is doing nothing to shed its new “spy” image, a...