Apollo High School

Now, though, since 9/11 the country has lost it's president to a dictator. Most people sit back and don't care about their rights being taken away, as long as it's in the name of security. But is security worth as much as freedom?

Security defined is freedom from doubt, anxiety, or fear, yet how is security freedom when it takes away rights? Also, I know that I get anxiety and fear when thinking about how security brought us into an unwanted war.

For example, the government's "security" mechanisms are so advanced that they can track cars, people, and even lost animals with the Global Positioning Systems, like On Star for your car.

The government could even use GPS to invade on people's privacy; no wait, they already have. But all in the name of security of course...

The people's opinion was not even considered when America went to war with Iraq. Bush didn't even need a real probable cause to start war, and according to former and present security advisors, he didn't have one when picking a fight with Iraq.
Yet, as long as the government officials yell "terrorism!" common people will run and hide, giving power of 'security' to the president without interruption. But, of course, security is very important.

John Kerry could be elected to 'fix' what Bush had done. What are his views? For all the common person knows, Kerry may want to start a war with Cuba. Would it be that much different than Bush's Iraq?

Is is right to bring someone with no experience into a supposedly 'terror-ridden' land? Thinking that Kerry is a war hero that can take away all the country's problems, is a whimsical idea that has no true substance.

Who really runs this country anyway? It was made for the people, why let one person take that away?