We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility”, so on and so on. I do not think that we could find a more profound symbol of freedom anywhere on earth, other than the Constitution. These words have been recited over and over, and I think it is a bit cliche for me to use them now, but it are those few words that represent the most feared power to tyranny; liberty.
Yet a look at the United States today, and this fact would not be less apparent. From court cases, to laws, executive orders for interment, and now debating the mass exodus of citizens affiliated with a particular religion, the truths we hold to be so self-evident, have became under attack by our own government.
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American is on the brink of war with France, and animosity increases towards the foreign policy skills of the nation’s leaders. As tension increases in the US, political leaders become fearful of ‘rebellion’ and pass a law basically making it illegal to publish grievances with the government. How ironic is it that the same people who wrote, “Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press,” turn around and make it illegal to “‘print, utter, or publish . . . any false, scandalous, and malicious writing about the government’”? The same government that fought so hard against a monarch for lack of representation and respect passed a set of laws restricting one’s right to speech and authorized, the president to deport aliens, permit their arrest, imprisonment, and deportation. As if more oppression is a proper combatant against anarchy. Imagine how large prisons would be today if this still applied. After being deemed unconstitutional, one would only suspect that the government would never make such a mistake again. Yet no story is never so …show more content…
December 8th to be exact, Not to be confused with December 7th, this was the day after Pearl Harbor, and the day where when tasked with the opportunity to uphold the rights of people, the United States again made the wrong decision. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the attack catapulted a frenzy of fear across the United States and initiated one of the greatest discriminatory and cultural apartheids since Nazi Germany. February 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which had the effect of relocating all persons of Japanese ancestry, both citizens and aliens. The objectives of the order were to prevent espionage and to protect persons of Japanese descent from harm at the hands of Americans who had strong anti-Japanese attitudes.” What really happened was the mass exodus of innocent Japanese Americans into literal internment camps and the complete disregard of founding principles such as due process. Millions of Japanese-Americans lost their income and livelihood, deemed guilty by association in the eyes of a government serving its own governmental interest. And as the war drew to a close many Japanese returned home and many more were unable due to the high levels of hatred and animosity towards them. The effects of the internment of those Japanese-Americans still is evident