Government Overeach
Government Abusing Surveillance Powers:
Is It Really Happening ?
29 November 2013
Outline
THESIS: People should be worried about government abusing surveillance because even if people think they have nothing to hide they most likely unknowingly perpetrate crimes, the government has abused it's surveillance powers before, and the government is made of individuals who have personality traits and these traits can be petty, creepy, incompetent, or dangerous.
I. The biggest majority of the world believes they have nothing to hide from their government when they are actually most likely unknowingly committing crimes. A) According to an article from Reason 24/7 very little things such as downloading music can actually be felonies that most people don't know about. B) An investigation in a book by Attorney Harvey Silverglate the Department of Justice has been notably and egregiously using federal laws to destroy lives. II. The government has abused its' surveillance powers before. A) There are hundreds of accounts of the government overreaching it's people by spying B) According to the study done Matthew Yglesias in “Surveillance Abuse in the USA” the FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. Telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records.
III. The government is made of individuals who have personality traits and these traits can be petty, creepy, incompetent, or dangerous. A) Gilberto Valle had an unusual sexual fetish. He fantasized about kidnapping, killing, and eating young women. Valle was also a member of the New York Police Department, and was convicted in March of plotting to make his fantasies a reality. Whether he really meant
Is It Really Happening ?
29 November 2013
Outline
THESIS: People should be worried about government abusing surveillance because even if people think they have nothing to hide they most likely unknowingly perpetrate crimes, the government has abused it's surveillance powers before, and the government is made of individuals who have personality traits and these traits can be petty, creepy, incompetent, or dangerous.
I. The biggest majority of the world believes they have nothing to hide from their government when they are actually most likely unknowingly committing crimes. A) According to an article from Reason 24/7 very little things such as downloading music can actually be felonies that most people don't know about. B) An investigation in a book by Attorney Harvey Silverglate the Department of Justice has been notably and egregiously using federal laws to destroy lives. II. The government has abused its' surveillance powers before. A) There are hundreds of accounts of the government overreaching it's people by spying B) According to the study done Matthew Yglesias in “Surveillance Abuse in the USA” the FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. Telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records.
III. The government is made of individuals who have personality traits and these traits can be petty, creepy, incompetent, or dangerous. A) Gilberto Valle had an unusual sexual fetish. He fantasized about kidnapping, killing, and eating young women. Valle was also a member of the New York Police Department, and was convicted in March of plotting to make his fantasies a reality. Whether he really meant