Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Less Privacy is Good for Us (and You) #3

In the article Less Privacy Is Good for Us (and You) by Amitai Etzioni, it goes into explain why the First Amendment isn’t really good on privacy, but that the Fourth Amendment is a little better and should incorporate privacy in it. For example Etzioni goes on to explain certain situations like “your neighbors being able to listen in on your cell phone calls, E-Z passes allow tollbooth operators to keep track of your movements, bosses being able to read your emails”, this I would consider a violation of privacy and should be moved over to the Fourth Amendment.
Oh well here is my opinion… screw privacy! Only certain things like cell phone calls, Social Security Numbers, bank accounts, who your married too, street address and phone number and things of that sort should be kept private from the public, but public to government. I say that because these days you don’t know what people are up too, you could have someone living next door to you who is a terrorist and is planning an attack, but if things were kept private then our lives would be changed forever; again.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Untold Stories!

The small town of Immokalee could best be described as a rural community thriving with agricultural and farming; with communities such as seminole communities, the pioneering communities, the 20th century entreprenuers, and farmers making up the vast proportion of people. The history goes on to be that people came here seeking a better life with agriculture and farming, especially once the railway was built! With the small town seeing a drastic change because of WWII it began its process of growing, with its population more than doubling and tripling; 43 to 578 residents. Then Immokalee received its very 1st Regional Airport which was an old Bomer Training Base, then oil was then discovered causing a huge era of change. Going along with other new things that helped Immokalee thrive was the fact they put in place a Seminole Casino.
Growing up in Miami, FL and reading about Immokalee and how it arose, I believe it is totally different from Miami… Miami is more a fast pace life, barely any farmers, ranches, or cattle around. You mainly see house squished in side by side with little land, big buildings and shopping centers everywhere. Immokalee is representative of the “old” American Dream because as the videos showed their was a family who had about 16 children or so and they all worked on the farm and helped with the trading. Some major industries I believe will help Immokalee’s future would be that of casinos or major attractions like that. I don’t believe the farming will get the community by for much longer. Honestly I don’t see Immokalee being anything in 10 years, unless they put in place a big casino or something of that nature.