Government are justified in circumventing civil laws when doing so is vital to the protection of national security
The issue posed a critical question; whether it is justifiable for government to circumvent civil laws in the protection of national security or it is not. After considering the issue based on my experiences and History, I think it is quite important to define what the term “National security” means to truly support my position that it is not justifiable for government anywhere in the world to circumvent civil laws (right of the civilians) in the name of “national security” unless the “national security” is in the best interest of the civilians.
First, National security as it has been used the world over is determined by the few people in government and it is what they see deem fit to be consequential to the security of the country. That brings into question the objectivity of Government. Take for instance, in war torn state of Syria, President Assad seeming it fit to withhold the freedom of the press in the name of National security is not very justifiable. Reason being that, it would make the world oblivious to the atrocities going on in the country on her civilian population. President Assad on the other had would think of it has a necessary strategy to win the war at all cost. This is in no way justifiable! The same goes for the Afghanistan and other war torn state. In fact, Government in general has been found to use the occurrence of war to impose certain rules that are directly against civil liberty.
Also, individuals in power tends to turn autocratic if not checked as history has shown. This is the case of monarchs in time past which ultimately led to their downfall. Hence, civil laws tends to check and curtail the activities of government and keep the best interest of civilians in the helm of their decision making process. However, if it becomes justifiable for them to circumvent this laws in the protection of national security as they see it deem fit, they would move towards being autocracy. Hence, it cannot be justified.
There are of course cases whereby it would be in unavoidable for the government to circumvent certain civil laws. Let me illustrate using the Nigerian Boko Haram insurgency; people living in certain part the North Eastern state, Borno, has been prevented from freely moving to places they used to have access to. This is because the places has been ascertained to home insurgent whom are violent. In this certain case, restriction of the movement of civilians is both in their best interest and for the sake of national security. It is in cases like this, whereby the “national security” is tantamount to “civilian security” is it justifiable in my opinion for Government the world over to circumvent certain civil laws.
In all, we all would agree the most difficult aspect of government is the decision making process; where they would have to weigh so many options and make certain concessions. However, circumventing civil laws and liberties for the sake of “national security” is not a justifiable decision unless it is in the best interests of civilians.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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... is in the best interests of civilians.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, however, if, so, for instance, i think, in fact, in general, of course, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 83.0 58.6224719101 142% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2594.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 517.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01740812379 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76839952204 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05506311766 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.442940038685 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 816.3 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.2525129457 60.3974514979 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.523809524 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.619047619 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.21951772744 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295723467053 0.243740707755 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0901853438203 0.0831039109588 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10603605523 0.0758088955206 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186288757405 0.150359130593 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0571110605786 0.0667264976115 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 100.480337079 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 21.0 11.8971910112 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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