A Republican Analysis

In the United States of America, there is a plethora of extravagant political parties with which one can associate. Obviously, due to the nature of the scholarship at hand, the reader of this written work is a Republican. Is there any thought ever given to the immensity of the political spectrum? There is left and right, up and down, libertarians, authoritarians, liberals, conservatives, socialists, communists, neo-libertarians, paleoconservatives, fascists, or one could be completely neutral. Still, no matter how hard we try to avoid it, in the United States of America, one is always drawn to one side, left or right, while little attention is ever given to the north or south poles of the spectrum. Association with a political party is something

A Viking by the name of Leif Erikson led his group of fellow Norwegian explorers to the northern part of the Americas in the year 999 A.D, being the first European of any kind to document a visit or exploration of this foreign part of the world, unknown to the rest of the world for five hundred-ninety-three years. That amount of time later, Christopher Columbus sailed here with eighty-eight other men, later establishing a fort named “La Navidad.” After Columbus came other settlers from a myriad of countries, most notably England. Once the king of the British Empire saw the prospective profit to be made, charters were sent to create more and more colonies, establish trade with the natives (which went better for the French), and taxes to be collected and sent back to the homeland on the European continent three thousand four hundred miles away. These taxes, seen as the basis of an inimical government seeking to oppress its citizens, were soon the basis of controversy throughout the new land. Controversy turned into patriotism, spurring talks of war and pamphlets describing human rights. Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” influenced thousands to think differently about the austere monarchy above them, soon leading to the birth of a new nation. Thomas Jefferson, soon to be the third president, took to paper with pen in hand, presenting on July 4th, 1776 the Declaration of

The fourth amendment clearly states that the people of this country are safe from “unreasonable searches and seizures”, while the NSA, CIA and PATRIOT Act are all violators of said amendment. The NSA’s primary function in government is to gather information about possibly harmful or terrorist activities going on inside the country. They achieve their goals by completely violating our rights to private property and unreasonable searches. The NSA consistently is listening in on phone calls, reading text messages and e-mails, and monitoring other internet activity, regardless of the person. Furthermore, the NSA is violating a constitutional right of every citizen in America. The CIA has also been known, in recent years, to spy on the citizens of the United States electronically as well, being the subject of recent Wikileaks scandals and whistle-blows. After the events of September 11th, 2001, or commonly referred to as just 9/11, the PATRIOT Act was passed in order to increase the surveillance and protection of our citizens from terrorist attacks. In the heat of the drama and catastrophe, the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001” was passed by congress and the president, allowing the government to monitor the activity of people all throughout the