Watching You

    It is amazing how many things our country, the USA, does for us to keep us safe from terrorist attacks from other countries.  The president has people check phone calls from foreigners, do body scans in airports, and has put many surveillance cameras in every major cities.  You may think that people working for The National Security Agency are invading your privacy, but these acts keep us safe day to day.
     The article says that the United States of  America has increased our security standards since the deadly and devastating 9/11.  Edward Snowden, who was a former contractor of The National Security Agency, leaked the information that the US has been looking at citizens phone records and tracking foreigners on Facebook and Yahoo.  Edward showed this information to the public because he believed that "the public needs to decide whether these program and policies are right or wrong.  But as Barack Obama stated in June, Americans can't have both 100% privacy and 100% safety.  In 2009, the NSA intercepted an e-mail from an Al Qaeda operative who was planning on bombing the NYC subway.  Suspects from the Boston bombing were found and captured within a week because of surveillance cameras in the area of the bombing.
     Many Americans believe that the NSA is invading their privacy, but it is to keep every citizen safe.  Cameras are mounted on many buildings, but they are only searching for  possible terrorists could be fatal, not for a normal and an actor of safety.  Improved technology has helped people secure America's safety in the past few years.  Travelers go through more accurate scanners in airports and smartphones have made every situation into a "possible video fodder."  These new technological advances have made America the "surveillance state," and this is not creepy as it sounds, but safe. Rob Johnson a 21 year old living in Chicago agrees that it is okay for them to track us if it can save American's lives.  The government tracking people should not alarm you if you are following the laws and doing right.