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The Question is Should Wiretapping be Allowed or the Current Laws Against it Enforced Before Many More Freedoms Are Taken Away. 

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The debate over should wiretapping be allowed or not is ongoing and fierce. 

Both sides adamantly say they’re right and if they don’t win the future of the United States will be put in grave danger, in one way or another. 

But the fact remains, whether we like it or not, that wiretapping is alive and well in the United States and in many other parts of the world, and it’s getting more prevalent. 

The side for wiretapping, and the side the government is on, including the Obama administration, says that wiretapping is important for our national security. 

The case for warrants, they claim, became vague when the telecom systems changed and were no longer point-to-point but could be routed anywhere. 

This meant a call between two people, both in foreign countries, could be routed through the United States and therefore we should be able to monitor that call. 

What that has to do with wiretapping American citizens, they left out. 

The case then moved to the need to be able to wiretap in order to determine if the person is a suspect or not. 

They suspect the person might be a suspect but it’s all speculation. 

This logic could be understood, for awhile, until it came out they were wiretapping people, including journalists, who were under no suspicion whatsoever for terrorist activities. 

It’s this latter subject that brings up the greatest debate on should wiretapping be allowed. 

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Freedoms Lost

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