Top Secret: Do Not Read (28)

Censorship – a controversial word that brings to mind images of Communist officers rifling through books and writings, looking for forbidden material. The tables seemed to have turned as of late. In an increasingly dangerous world filled with terrorists, the governments of such free countries as the U.S. are removing freedoms to protect the security of the people. But certain questions start coming up when this is done. One of them involves censorship; should it be allowed, and if so how much? Freedom of the press has long been argued in the U.S. and it has stood as a symbol of the free world. But when the government has unlimited access to personal emails, simple or not-so-simple opinions become dangerous to the individual expressing them. Depending on what you write, you never know when government agents will come swarming into your house. Yes censorship is definitely becoming a problem. There are always going to be a few nutcases that write the stupidest things; a few terrorists do get caught as well by their incriminating messages. But these isolated cases are eventually going to make it such that opinions can’t be freely expressed anymore. Opinions will become national threats. Right now, it is still possible to chew out the government without getting in trouble. But add a few key words like “blow up”, “A l Kyduh”(just making sure I don't get arrested!), and other such terrorist-linked words and you’ll be serving time. After a while, other individuals may be targeted, as new kinds of “threats”. It’s a slippery slope that gets steeper and steeper, terminating in a cliff looking over empty space devoid of a Constitution.