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The Pros And Cons Of Using TSA

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Always Being Watched (Or At Least When You’re in an Airport) Did you know that as soon as you walk into an airport, you’re immediately being watched by the TSA through their surveillance systems? The Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, should not be scanning people through their Secure Flight program. I believe it is an unnecessary security measure that is also an invasion of everyone’s privacy. There are already so many anti-terrorism methods implemented into airports; yet the overprotection offered by this method comes at a price. The Secure Flight program is a system implemented by the TSA into American airports that identifies people based on information that is already known by them. This information consists of things such as your name, age, race and gender. It then recognizes someone from a database based on this previously known information. When I traveled from Logan International Airport, I was completely unaware that I was being scanned while I was walking around, waiting for my flight. I went through …show more content…

In 1984, the main character, Winston, is being oppressed by the Inner Party, just like everyone else. One of the ways the Inner Party stops people from acting out against them is through the “telescreens”, which are basically security cameras in every room that allow them to arrest anyone who seems suspicious. Orwell creates an image of always being watched in 1984 when Winston thinks to himself, “He thought of the telescreen with its never-sleeping ear. They could spy upon night and day” (Orwell 166). Much like the telescreens used by the Inner Party to scan the Outer Party and proles, the TSA uses security systems to scan everyone in airports and discover their identity matched to already known

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Airport security has intensified throughout the United States since the terrorist attacks in 2001. Airport security has intensified by having peoples ID Name and picture must match what is on ticket. Before 9/11 there was no way to tell that if the passenger 's name and picture

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Let’s look at what happen post 9/11. After it’s devastation, the Department of Homeland Security was created to assist in fighting the “war” against terrorism. The DHS implemented many “strategies” to help fight this war, including increasing airport security. American parents protested that TSA agents were groping their kids, and “(Janet) Napolitano (former DHS Secretary) defiantly retorted that if people did not want their children groped, they should yield and use the unpopular full-body machines – the machines being sold by her predecessor, (Michael) Chertoff” (Turley, 3).

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America along with the other parts of the world have changed since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Our whole security system has changed to become suspicious of everyone. Traveling out of the country and even within the United States can be a hassle with having proper ID, passport and searches. Passengers can not have a certain amount of liquid in their bags if they are carrying their bags onto the plane. The arrival time is now 2-3 hours before the flight time in past time it was only one hour.

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In the ten years immediately following 9/11, the United States spent 635 billion dollars on homeland security. With this increase in spending American citizens would expect airport security to be greatly improved, but there have been many instances where the TSA failed to do its job. On a flight from Atlanta to Chicago, Blake Alford carried a fully loaded semi-automatic handgun with him all the way to his hotel in Chicago. Mr. Alford turned himself into the TSA after he realized his infraction, but this rare instance has people wondering how often the TSA makes mistakes. Alford went through security like any other traveler in the Atlanta airport, but even a full body scan did not detect his weapon.

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Privacy was given to American Citizens’ to protect their constitutional rights, privacy was given to protect the Citizens’ health, and privacy was given to protect the Citizens’ from unnecessary body searches. Constitutionally Citizens’ were given privacy of their beliefs, the privacy of their property, privacy against unreasonable searches, and privacy of personal information. So privacy protects them for the airports ability to search them, because the Constitution provides them with amendments protecting them and their personal belongs from being searched. Body searches are becoming ineffective once a social class is exempted from participating in security checks, and this is a vital contribution in what needs to change to keep the nation safe. The Constitution protects everyone, and this means the government must protect the Citizens’ of America from any source of hazardous exposure, which is partially the procedure of the security searches.

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In both 1984 by George Orwell, and The Veldt by Ray Bradbury, the themes presented are both able to present a clear warning to the readers of the power of technology, and the damaging power it can have on our lives. In Part 1 of 1984, The Inner Party establishes a facade of protection to gain control over Oceania and the citizens. This is mainly achieved through the technological advances that gives The Party authority over people 's actions because of the 24/7 surveillance of their every move. At the beginning of the novel, protagonist Wilson says “the instrument (telescreens) could be dimmed but there was no way of shutting it off altogether” (8). These telescreens are used to minimise the amount of Thoughtcrime, which, in Oceania, violates

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The huge budget of the TSA combined with its ineffectiveness creates a huge waste of taxpayer dollars in a time when the US national debt was, as of April 2015, over eighteen trillion dollars(Patton). While the inefficiency and waste of the TSA pales in comparison to the problems presented by the NSA and Patriot Act it still needs

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From Orwell’s novel, “1984”, it can be determined that his opinion on the most powerful means of control by the government would be the government’s use of fear to instill paranoia among the people. One powerful piece of corroboration for fear to paranoia would be Oceania’s obvious, and constant, use of technology to fulfill this goal. Take, for instance, the telescreens. Because of their existence in every buildings’ rooms and corners, they can be easily used to keep an eye on party members, and if need be, used to track their location and arrest them. Winston experiences the surveillance inflicted by the government during one of his daily workouts,as right when he stopped trying in order to ponder the conspiracies surrounding the party,

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Terrorists shattered America's sense of safety. The federal government created Transportation Security Administration (TSA), shortly after the attacks. Before September 11, 2001, airports did not have an ongoing system in place to make sure that the flight was going to be safe. The security inside of the airplane has also changed to prevent hijack planes. From 9/11 forward the cockpit will remain locked for the entire flight with only the pilots in there.

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In 1984 technology plays an important role in the novel 's plot. They live in a society of totalitarianism ruled by Big Brother who ironically, Is Watching You. The “instrument[s]” used to spy on their residents are “telescreens” which “could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely” (Orwell, page 2 ). Big Brother uses technology to spy on them in particular situation throughout the day.

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The U.S. government is invading the privacy of its’ citizens through the use of mobile devices such as phones and laptops. This use of privacy invasion is similar to the technology used in George Orwell’s novel 1984. What makes today relate to 1984 is how the government tracks us through location, voice, and messaging. George Orwell’s 1984 has a totalitarian government that can track its’ citizens through location with the use of telescreens. In the novel, telescreens can track your location in a room through a telescreen, which is demonstrated by Winston´s thought ¨so long as you remained within the field of vision … you could be seen¨ (Orwell, page 3).

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After September 11th, our Airport security was stricter than ever. Men and Women were hired by government agency and issued blue uniforms to police our airports. Prior to September 11th, airports used private company security guards. People traveling now must endure warrantless searches, pat downs and logged scans of their facial features. American Citizens of all ages were apprehended for minor infractions.

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Imagine being followed everywhere by a government agent. They’re watching your every move, and they’ll report you if you even make a wrong facial movement. This is essentially the case in George Orwell’s novel, 1984. Run by an English socialist government called the Party, the people’s every move is watched through telescreens. Citizens are not individual, but rather an extension of the Party.

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Because personally I feel safer every time I fly and I can see that all the members of the different flight crews are also being frisked. So I feel that by frisking the flight crews, in front of the passengers it makes them feel safer, not unsafe. Because why should flight crewmembers be able to board the flight without security check? Because aren’t there any chance that maybe one flight crewmember could be a terrorist in the disguise to?

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Student ID #: 916374191 A Critique of Judith Jarvis Thompson's A Defense of Abortion Probably the most famous argument against the pro-life position is Judith Jarvis Thomson’s Violinist Analogy, in which you are attached, against your will, to a famous unconscious violinist to prevent his dying from a kidney ailment. Contained in the original essay this argument appeared, A Defense of Abortion, there are other arguments contained therein to argue against the pro-life position. I would like to take a look at the entirety of her essay and show why it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

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