Thursday, January 29, 2015

 The courts ruled against the police because the officer took Riley (the defendents) cell phone a looked through it to find all the information to have him arrested and put in jail. He did this without a warrant from the Supreme Court which he needs in order to look through their phone. This was a landmark case because it showed that the old laws and ammendents still stand true to today's technology. And it also showed that the 4th amendment stands true to our phones and our technology. I think no matter what the case is the police should never be able to break an Ammendment. And we should always have a right to privacy so the police don't get too much power. People have private things on their cellphones that they don't want people to see so a police officer shouldn't be able to come over and take your phone and look without a warrant, just like they can't enter your house and search without one. This hold true to any case wether it saves a life or puts away a criminal. I agree with the supreme courts ruling in this case, even though he does deserve jail time.

Monday, January 5, 2015

My current event is how barrack Obama is sending American troops to Liberia to fight a war against Ebola. I do not think it is the right idea to use our only protection to fight a disease that seems uncurable. It's easy to sit behind a desk and decide where to send your troops but he would never visit Liberia because the risk of getting Ebola is very high, so he shouldn't put our troops and protection in danger of getting sick with this incurable disease. The soldier are very well trained to be calm in situations such as the Ebola crisis but I think they should be kept out of Liberia. He is spreading the American army to vastly throughout the world and it is leaving the one place we are trying to keep safe unprotected. As history shows this didnt workout very well for the Roman Empire. They spread there army to widely and eventually were overthrown. Obama shouldnt be taking our countries military overseas to Liberia because it's dangerous for the U.S. and because it's immoral to do to our troops.