The biggest take away from this class is going to be the fact that there is no trust that can be instilled in any form from anywhere. There is bliss in not knowing. That's how a lot of people feel and thus approach the way that they look into the government and also how they look into the media. This class really opened my eyes to the true realities of what is going on around the world and how the US has its hand in a lot of wars and things that we are told that they don’t.
Every 4 years there is a big emphasis on pulling out of wars and although we may pull out a little bit we are never fully out of the wars or the countries that have been destroyed by the decades of turmoil that has faced them from trying to mess with the US. We look at these sites and see that the top stories are about the US but they aren't all. These sites open our eyes to the detriment that is taking place all across the world from Canada to Iraq. These governments don't want the people to know what they are involved in. Just as obscure as these websites are, is the information we get regarding what our country is involved in most of the time. We as the people aren't privy to the things we should know like when we drop a bomb on another place, meaning that we as the citizens should know the places that our county has made into our enemy. We should know what we are facing and how we are going about the issue instead of finding out after the action has already been done.
The First Amendment's main speaking point is that debate and discourse on public issues is open. The government does however fully have within its power to limit free speech if it is a circumstance that presents a danger to the nation's security. It seems as though these antiwar sites stay under wraps because the government sees them as a “threat” to the security of the country again instilling the concepts of being on a need to know basis and discourse between us and those in charge.
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