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Introduction
1. Essay is about the ethical challenges presented between human rights and national security. The issue addressed specifically in this paper is should the United States government compromise human rights to achieve the objectives of international security. The U.S. government implemented the National Security Agency (NSA) Warrantless Wiretapping Program, by allowing the warrantless wiretapping of the citizens despite the violation of the right to privacy.
2. After the September 11, 2001 bombing in the U.S., strict security measures had been taken by the government to ensure the security and safety of the people.
3. The primary objective of the government is to warrant the survival of its regime and to preserve international security and to safeguard the public from future terrorist attacks.
4. One of ways in carrying-out investigations is surveillance of the citizens through warrantless wiretapping and without asking for the permission of the person under investigation.
Thesis: The U.S. government should be able to balance the interest between human rights and international security, by not allowing civil liberties and democracy to be compromised.
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• Importance of the Constitutional right to privacy.
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• The NSA wiretapping law allows the warrantless surveillance of Americans and a clear violation of the people’s right to privacy. It will be absurd if the government will allow the civil liberties and democracy to die in pursuance of national defense (Baldwin and Shaw 429). This in effect will sabotage civil liberties, which is the very essence of national defense to protect the people against unlawful aggression
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1. Discussion of international security
2. Ways to prevent global terrorism
3. Creation of laws to combat terrorism
4. Cooperation of nations to prevent terrorism
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1. Warrantless eavesdropping under the NSA program is a blatant abuse of executive power.
2. NSA wiretapping is synonymous to the warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens
3. NSA violates the Constitutional right to privacy of the people.
4. Violation of human rights cannot justify the pursuance of international security.
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• The primary objective of the U.S. government is to ensure that the public is safeguarded from future attacks, but at the same time, to be able to preserve democracy and civil liberties at all times, in accordance to the guidelines implemented by international laws.
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1. Discuss the ethical issues between human rights and international security.
2. Discuss the means and methods to protect international security without disregarding human rights.
3. Discuss ways on how the U.S. government can make this happen.
Conclusion
1. The U.S. government should be able to weigh and balance the interests of all parties that will be affected before enactment of a law.
2. Restate thesis
3. This effort should be viewed as part of America’s goal to fight global terrorism.
POSSIBLE SOURCES
1.) Baldwin, Fletcher N. and Robert B.Shaw. “Down to the Wire: Assessing the
Constitutionality of the National Security Agency's Warrantless Wiretapping
Program: Exit the Rule of Law”. University of Florida Journal of Law & Public
Policy 17.3 (2006): 429-472. Print.
This source discusses the details of the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's Warrantless Wiretapping Program as a preventive measure after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.
2.) Keanan, Kevin M. Invasion of Privacy: A Reference Handbook. California: ABC-
CLIO, 2005. Print.
This source discusses the concept of invasion of privacy and provides scenarios on the curtailment of such right. The source was able to explain the role of the government in protecting the right of the people to privacy.
3.) Kies, Marianne F. “Policing the Police: Freedom of the Press, the Right to Privacy
and Civilian Recordings of Police Activity”. George Washington Law Review
80.1 (2011): 274-310. Print.
This source discusses the act of the police in violating the reasonable expectance of privacy of the people. The activities that are included in this coverage are any form of electronic surveillance, with or without the presence of an actual wiretapping or physical trespassing such as placing a listening device.
4.) Solove, Daniel J. & Schwartz, Paul.M. Privacy, Information and Technology. New
York: Aspen Publishers, 2006. Print.
This source discusses how privacy, information and technology are interrelated to prevent threats against international security. The ways on how to preserve the right to privacy in order to prevent the curtailment of the citizen’s right to self-autonomy.
