AOW #24: 'Bloody Sunday' Rememberance March in Selma Celebrates Freedom

This weeks article of the week was about how a bunch of black people were brutally beaten in Selma, Alabama for marching to try to fight for their voting rights in March of 1965. Police actually clubbed and tear gassed these people. A law enforcement man even shot a black man and killed him. They started a March to remember this day and celebrate the freedom of the black people involved in it, they now call this the "Bloody Sunday" March.

As stated in the article, "The Americans who crossed this bridge, they were not physically imposing, but they gave courage to millions. they held no elected office. But they led a nation" (Basu, Shelbayah, & Brumfield 1). Yes, I agree with this statement, but really why do we still need to dwell on the past, this happened 50 years ago, racism is not this bad now a days. Everyone honestly deserves to be treated equally, but now a days nothing is fair, no one cares about your skin color anymore, not even white people get the best treatment sometimes. It's okay to respect these people for what happened, but their is more tragic that has happened in the world then just this and no one even bothers to have a remembrance for anything else but racism.

If we Americans still were considered the bad people for racism then why the heck would we have chose to elect the first black president? Seriously, no one in this century really even gives a crap what the color of your skin is. Our president needs to quit worrying about racism that happened centuries ago and focus more on the bad things going on in our country. It sounds like to me Selma, Alabama does need to move forward with the past and come together as a state to prevent racism from being an issue there anymore.

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AOW #23: In a Nutshell: Net Neutrality

Has the FCC gone to far with internet access? We the people of the United States have the right to have access to the internet for a small monthly fee, But we shouldn't be forced to have it or consider it a utility of any sort, or perhaps give more internet to the rich people. Everyone should be treated equal no matter what their net income is you should not be able to purchase a ridiculous amount of internet and cause the lower class to get the crappier end of the deal. Nor should you have rules on what people can view on the internet that is violating our rights due to the constitution.

If we want to browse the internet for whatever we want i think we have the right to know what it is no matter what secrets hide on the internet, if you are going to put them on the internet then they should not be kept a secret. I do not see how other companies will allow them to be able to do this because they want to give a good amount of money to them. Money should have nothing to do with the access of the internet I think everyone in the world should have the option to have internet, and if they do not want it then they do not have to purchase it.

As Wheeler stated in the article “This is no more a plan to regulate the Internet than the First Amendment is a plan to regulate free speech” (CBS News 2). As our first amendment states we shall have privacy to the online publicity of the world, the government should have no part in what is banned on the internet or can not be viewed by some viewers. I think having internet is our choice and no one should step in the middle and tell us that we have to have it or that they are going to sell better internet to those that can afford it.

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AOW #22: Obama Administration to Allow Allied Countries to Buy Military Drones

This weeks article of the week is about the Obama Administration allowing our allied countries to buy our military drones from us. That is seriously one of the most dumbest decisions they could of ever made, but what do you expect it is coming right from Obama. Since when does him and his administration make smart decisions anyways? Why would we want to sale and or share our weapons and tools with other countries? I guess this new policy took years to be completed and allowed..

It should not even be allowed in the first place. Yes, our allied countries are on our side now, but who is to say that they won't turn on us and be against us in the long run and then we are giving them new tools and weapons to attack us with. According to the article, "U.S officials suggested the drone sales could become a new tool for expanding American influence overseas"(Hennigan 1). Are you serious?! All the Obama administration cares about is selling them drones to become well known to other places overseas.

All this idiot cares about is making money and profit off these drones, what about the American people's safety? I just do not understand why Obama is so worried about other countries and their problems instead of our own. Does he not realize he has screwed our country over? He has pissed off so many countries that who knows when one of them is going to turn against us, I don't care if they agreed that they will not do anything with the weapons and tools we sell them, that doesn't mean crap. They could easily just agree and then turn their backs on us and then what are we going to do?

We will be screwed, I bet the Obama Administration would feel real stupid after they sold our weapons to these countries that they would use to attack us. None of this makes sense to me at all. I really just do not understand why such stupid decisions like this is always made. I really believe by Obama has dug us in a hole that we will NEVER be able to get out of.

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