Essay On Civil Disobedience

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The government controls everything around you, which ends up controlling you. With todays population, it has grown much more difficult to sustain a balanced and organized government. As the population number grows governments will fall, when governments fall, civil war breaks out, causing military to move to the streets.
Just like in 1984, it all starts with a little something called thought crime. No one can control how someone thinks, which can lead to acts of defiance like we see very much today.
What I’m mainly concerned of in present time here in the U.S. is violation of our constitutional rights through law enforcement. I feel it’s everyone’s responsibility to know and exercise the rights that they’re entitled to. If we do this as a whole …show more content…

citizen to flex your rights and deny the police of any identification requests and or searches. Note that you are allowed to do this at anytime a cop questions you when no crime has been committed by you. Never underestimate the word “No.” Imagine how a society that shrouds the government could influence its government to change by doing simple acts of defiance as so? If this was attempted in 1984 they might have had a chance at making an impact on the government if they all rebelled at once.
Now you may ask, “How does a nation of this size begin to start a movement like this?” Well unfortunately, there is no easy way. It can take months to years for things like this to become normal upon all citizens and to the point where exercising these rights become an everyday routine for everyone. The problem with our country right now is that we are slowly stepping away from the guidelines of the constitution and the government is taking advantage of this matter. Obama tried to propose a law where guns would be stripped from their owners to create a society with less gun violence. The United States is the only superpower country in the world with the least amount of gun violence and we say otherwise. The

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