HW 30: Scott Ritter's Citizenship Symposium

Thursday night, I attend Scott Ritter’s, “Citizen Soldiers and Global Warriors: Challenges of Iraq,” as apart of the Keene State College Citizenship Symposium. The symposium started off with an introduction of Scott Ritter by Keene State College’s director of communications. Scott Ritter then took over the podium. For the first hour Ritter spoke. Then the next hour, he allowed the audience to ask question. Ritter was not her to talk to Keene State College to promote his position, but to tell his perspective. Ritter mainly focused on what it means to be a citizen, a solider and a global warrior. Ritter then spoke about how presidents are selected and in order to become president you must have millions of dollars. To this Ritter said “The system no longer works the way it was intended to work.” By saying this he is also referring to the people of the United State’s Constitutional rights and how the government has found a way to violate our 4th amendment right by tapping into our telephone conversations. The most interesting thing I learned was how different our country is. Our fore fathers intended for the country to be strictly run by the constitution and for everyone know it. Now people do not even now their basic rights.