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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Making the Invisible; Visible


I am addressing the issue of Police Corruption. Police have a duty in society to help and protect people at any time and at any place. Sometimes people do not get help or are not protected because of their race, ethnic group and others. But what is worse is that people are giving bribes for the police to leave them alone. The police take the money without a problem as there is a constant thrive for money. Maybe the reason there is a thrive for money is because people are not being paid enough. Corruption can affect society in so many ways; people think they can just pay their way through things. When people are let go like that then they think, if they get stopped again then they can just pay their way out. And they will not be worried about speed limits because if they get caught they can easily get away with it. I have out that in many cases police have been caught and charged with corruption, but instead of stopping they just continue again and some cops have been charged more than three times. I lose trust in the police and worries me that when I get stopped or if I get stopped that they will not stop until they get money which probably I don’t have. I have heard many stories of people being taken advantage of, which happen to anyone. 

Sunday, March 10, 2013

How to deal with a Dictator


There are many ways to deal with a dictator but it can be very difficult as they have so much power. Dictators are very much like tyrants, they want all power to themselves and they make sure no one stands in there way of having that power. As they have all the power it can be very hard to go up against them especially when you are an average citizen. Kim Jung Il is probably one of the most famous dictators in North Korea and they have a strong army that have a nuclear weapons program. Many times Kim Jung Il threatened to attack other countries using nuclear weapons. Some other ways that dictators have been taken out of power is through assassination.  Assassination is the most risky but most effective method because it gets rid of the dictator for good, however  the consequences can be great. For example in Rome, Julius Caesar was assassinated and his death lead to a civil war. There are also other ways to get rid of a dictator and some work better than others. One such way is through embargo, many countries rely on the exporting and importing of products. China relies on their exporting and trading to fund the economy, if people were stop trading with them then they will soon not have enough money and the economy would shrink. Another way to get rid of a dictator could be gathering a group of people to go up against a the tyrant. The will soon loose power if so many are against him. For example Julius Caesar fell because of a conspiracy. As I said before dictators are like tyrants they need power and will do anything to keep hold of, so going up against them can be very difficult especially when the dictator overseas what happens. Because they have all the power their say is law and no one can go against that him or stop him. But one way is to take away their power and they would suffer. Dictators are something that we still to this day struggle with and and there are many stories of people rising up against them.