The Balancing Act

The Balancing Act: Security and Liberty Post-9/11 video is about the relationship between security and personal freedom. The video brings up fictional scenarios were America has been attacked. The first scenario shows our grocery stores being targeted by terrorists. They poison our food in grocery stores and then people eat the food and die. It shows that the American government then targets all the muslims and sends a bunch of them away to prison, not allowing them to try and prove themselves innocent. These events cause a huge economic uproar. And it brings up, once again the subject of racism. Innocent muslims were sent away to prison, having to leave their families even though they had absolutely nothing to do with the situation. It is unnecessary and unruly. All the people in the video discuss their views on the subject. I agreed with one man when he says, "Is the United States a battle ground? Is this an act of war, or a crime? Do we apply the civil law to it, or do we bring in the President's war power?" This shows that it is such an unknown subject. I think that we, as the people of the United States, should already know what to do in situations like this, incase it ever were to really happen.