Looking at the videos for this week blog post, I noticed some points that were made. “When America is attacked we go into military law not civil law”, a point made by Cat, is a good observation. She does not understand why they are different, but I think I may have a reason for it. During war, our country is at risk: any day could have a deadly attack. With the country being more at risk, there are extenuating circumstances. For this, there needs to be some different rules—or powers—the government can use in order to protect us without such a delay. If we did not have military law, and for some reason we were in war and we had P.O.W.s we would have to let them go without proper interrogation. I just think that military law is an emergency law setup.
The point Cat made about not having attacks on us since 9/11 is because we have good security. I wanted to add that even though it may be a pain to have to go through so much security, it has definitely helped protect us. I feel that sometimes we feel because we look a certain way or have money means we are entitled to more, but we’re not. Sometimes we forget to step in the other person’s shoes and realize that we both have to do something we do not want to, and sometimes that is just the way it is.
One of the points brought up by TJ was good. We need to protect our citizens of hazardous situations like food poisoning. Whether it seems ridiculous or not, it needs to be done. It reminds me of when I was in elementary school, and my mom would make me wear this hat with a pom-pom on it that I did not like. I thought it was stupid to have to wear such a hat, but it was to protect me from the cold. It is a weird connection, but I still make the point of having to do some things we may not want to do, but in order to maintain our health, we need to do it.
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