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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Should citizens allowed to protest against their government when their country is at war?


The issue of whether we should allow citizens to protest against government has been extensively debated in our community in recent times. Allowing or prohibiting people from protesting is an essential issue to discuss because it impact on country, government and soldiers who struggle in army during the war. This essay will think about the argument for allowing citizens to protest or prohibit them from it. It has been argued that government should know what people want and protect against dictatorship. A variety of different arguments have been put forward about allow citizens to protest or not. If government allows citizens to protest, then citizens lead to riots and lower the moral of soldiers. First of all, citizens shouldn’t be allowed to protest because protesters lead to riots and this lead to violence. When 10,000 opposition protesters are gathering to protest, we can see battles between police and protesters attacks with a hail of sticks and stones, which cause serious injuries or kill citizens. Also, some citizens still don’t know what they mean to be protesting about, they just riot and disorder. During protest we can see many demonstrators lying on the ground asking for help, but the others give them a cold shoulder.

For example, during Vietnam War, citizens in US had a strong protest that end with a number of people who injured and died. Moreover, in some countries police allot about two hours for protesting, but when the time expired some demonstrator’s intent on remaining in protesting areas and police are suffering to stop citizen’s disorder.
A second reason why citizens shouldn’t be allowed to protest is that protesters lead to lower soldiers’ moral and this cause danger to their lives. For instant, when citizens protest and disagree with country against war, soldiers will think twice bout their drafting in army and why they are here or why they carry on war. Of course when moral of soldiers are lowered, country will lose a war. Specifically, in Vietnam War. Furthermore, citizens who protest are not nationalistic. In fact, citizens should support their country and encourage leaders who are empowering for making a significant decision. Government always set a right decision for country and citizens should obey to their country without protesting because a government knows what the best for the country is.
It is claim that government represents citizens and protesting is a way for people to participate decision making and they can show their opinion about government’s decisions. Protesting can help citizens to protect against dictatorship and when a so-called democracy government ignores what people needs. Also, it has been argued that protesting let government know what people want and what they call it “freedom of speech” that is basic human rights. Citizens believe that protesting is one of human right that any one can feel free to say his or her opinion which they call it “democracy”, for example Africa. However, governments have information those average citizens don’t have we should trust them to make the sight decision that are in the country best interest. Also, lot of countries has “democracy”, but they are actually dictatorships. Citizens should trust government decision because governments make the best decision with expert people who know what the best is.

In summary, it is crucial that protesting is lead citizens to disorder and discourage soldiers who battle in war. Also, we have seen how protest cause lots problems, such as citizens fight with police or burn something in streets and kill each others. Therefore, if we want out country without riot and problems we should avoid protesting.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

interesting!!!

Anonymous said...

interesting!!!

Anonymous said...

yes the should.
they should give thier opinion because it's thier countery and thier future