Monday, November 16, 2015

Constitutional Amendments in France - Bennett Copley 8th

As everyone in the world has heard by now, last Friday, at least 128 people were killed in bombings and shootings in Paris. In response, France's president, Francois Hollande, has called for amendments to France's constitution allowing police raids without the requirement of a warrant and that would allow people to be placed under house arrest without a warrant.He also plans to strip citizenship from French natives convicted of Terrorism and who hold two passports, at least for the next couple months or so. This may be a bit drastic, but this situation can be related to what the United States went through with the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. Perhaps actions taken then were drastic, I mean, look at airport security nowadays, pre-9/11 there were no metal detectors or little x-ray things that look inside your bag and see whatever you have in it, you just sort of walked on the plane and went somewhere. Now you have to spend an hour just waiting in line to get through security checking. This might have seemed like an extremely drastic measure at the time, but look at it now, it seems to have worked, doesn't it have, and what's one more hour at the airport, you're about to get on a plane for at least a couple hours. Perhaps this search and seizure without requirement of a warrant in France will end up being the next big global security upgrade and it will just be everyday business fifteen years from now.

2 comments:

  1. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/world/europe/paris-terror-attack.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
    - Bennett

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  2. I feel like this is a bit too drastic. It's one thing to be X rayed and go through a metal detector and have your bags check when you know it's going to happen and then there is a point were searching people and stuff like that is a bit invasive. These are two different approaches and I would give up some of my freedom to insure the safety of others but at the same time I don't want my freedom and my privacy to be completely ignored.
    -Kiyanna Elliott

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