Purpose is the reason for the writing; whether it is to inform, entertain, explain, or persuade. Successfully accomplishing on a purpose requires explanation for why the speech or other form of writing was written. Purpose is also the argument the rhetor is trying to make. Without the knowledge of purpose one cannot begin to fully comprehend what the writer or speaker, in this case, wants to get across to his or her audience. In the speech, “Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People” Bush’s overall purpose was to not only inform the United States on the attacks on the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon but to give the Nation a plan of action.
Great Britain is also currently being presented with the same question as the problem has arisen as the extent of knowledge law enforcement has as to the activity of Muslim extremist in the country. The problem is in order to prevent such attacks all the pieces of the information must be collected and the most efficient way to do so is through aggressive intelligence gathering. However this presents the problems of infringing upon civil liberties. The first step to striking a balance between intelligence collections and protecting civil liberties is intelligence priorities. Prior to the 9/11 attacks the focus of the FBI and intelligence collection was in the prosecution of terrorists rather than the prevention of attacks.
When he was asked whether he would favor the prohibition of the bilingual ballot, he simply stated, “Of course not.” Wills’ continues in the next section stating that our national identity and our federal laws are being weakened by immigration that is influenced by these bilingual ballots. He also uses this anecdote in the fourth section by showing how our laws are weakening. That these illegal immigrants are able to ask for bilingual ballots because the law is weakening and they are able to immigrate into the country in illegal ways without knowing how to speak English or know anything about our politics. Although the chief rhetorical aim of the article appears to be to inform Americans rather than persuade them as to why the bilingual ballot should be prohibited, why is Will not taking up a more serious tone if he felt so strongly about the
Individual Privacy vs. National Security William J. Crabtree ENG 121 Instructor: Jessica Hamman July 02, 2012 First off let me just say that National Security is not just a bunch of government spy’s out there to take your privacy away and put your information out there for everyone. National Security serves many purposes from emergency preparedness and management to keeping threats isolated. So as history has revealed before, the people of our nation cannot afford to be self-centered on their Individual Privacy and the fight against our government’s way of protecting us. If we just take a minute to weigh the outcome of letting the government monitor not take away our Individual Privacy for the good of National Security we would see that many disastrous events could have and can be prevented. On September 11, 2001, the United States was invaded for the first time since the War of 1812 also known as “America’s second war of Independence”.
A method of interrogation that is used here, and many other prisons and detainee camps, is enhanced interrogation. Enhanced interrogation has been used for many years to obtain information from prisoners, but these methods should be banned because they are ineffective, torturous and have long lasting effects on the prisoners. After the 9/11 attacks the Bush Administration decided to capture convicted terrorists and bring them back to the US as “detainees,” so that they could not be protected under the Geneva Convention (Mayer). While doing this the US began establishing “black site” prison camps oversees so that they were out of reach of the US law. At the time José Rodriguez was head of the CIA and he began arguing that torturing towards the detainees was necessary to prevent further terrorist attacks.
On the other hand, I think that our government has the right to do everything in it’s power to ensure our safety, including spying on those in countries who have threatened our own. If the NSA could have taken a closer look or had more information about Hazmi and Midhar’s plan to travel to the United States, their trip would have never been successful. The NSA needs to focus their attention more to the other countries instead of basically wasting all of their time with U.S. citizens, and maybe slips like letting terrorist into our homeland wouldn’t happen. They are getting their systems blown up with information that is useless to them from Americans. If they didn’t have to spend the time to sort through all of America’s “evidence,” then they would probably be able to seek out and confirm the terroristic threats and evidence coming from outside of the
The FBI also gathers, shares, and analyzes intelligence—both to support its own investigations and those of its partners and to better understand and combat the security threats facing the United States. The mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners. It performs these responsibilities in a way that is responsive to the needs of the public and faithful to the Constitution of the United States. There are many challenges to the proper integration of homeland security and law enforcement. Most of the major
As a result, courts often look for signs that Congress has either supported or opposed the President’s actions and rest their decisions on statutory grounds. (Bradley,2010). When people are caught that have harmed or attempted to harm Americas then I do feel that they need to be punished and held until they have served their time or until they can be placed in a prison somewhere else if Guantanamo Bay is closed. In the days immediately following the 11 September 2001 attacks on the USA, the Bush Administration implemented several measures to respond to what it interpreted as acts of war. President Bush proclaimed a national state of emergency.
Governments have often influenced the media to manipulate news stories in their favor. Bias had, has and will continue making its mark in media. The governments of the world are a principle factor in media bias. They tend to conceal certain news from the citizens. Through legislations, they often filter the information reaching the public.
Arguments on Gun Control A lot of people feel that some forms of gun laws are needed to lower the level of gun related violence and crimes in the US. The opponents of gun control feel that it would be an infringement on their second amendment rights. The outcome of gun control has strong political implications because it determines the present day meaning of the Second Amendment. Each side has strong points to their arguments but I feel it should be the right of every person to make their mind up for their self. In the1800s the supreme court made the decision that the “right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution” followed up with a decision that states are “free to regulate the rights of citizens to bear arms”.