‘Changing the Face of Anti-Terror’ Isolates Washington

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‘Changing the Face of Anti-Terror’ Isolates Washington
Wen Wei Po, Hong Kong
By Huang Haizhen
Translated By Renee Loeffler
16 November 2013
Edited by Jane Lee

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The number of “terrorists” the U.S. has currently pursued or locked up has already reached more than a million. The CIA utilizes modern technology as a method to “monitor and investigate” persons of interest, this “easy” way of doing things already becoming their standard. It doesn't matter if it is government officials or normal citizens — all must deal with these incidents of secret “shadowing.” In Utah, U.S. Homeland Security has established an enormous data center to collect and analyze the 2 billion communications of American citizens every day. The CIA not only gathers data from electronic communications, but it also uses Internet companies to obtain citizens’ telephone, postal and GPS information, seriously infringing upon the legal rights of the public. Already more than 90 percent of the American public cannot have private communications, and this has raised anger in American citizens.

Interrelated departments have already become accustomed to detaining U.S. citizens without any accusation and trial. The only thing that is needed is the word from the CIA, and then it becomes O.K. to suspend any American citizen's constitutional rights. If the media seeks reasoning, the response is “[person in question] has become a threat to 'national security.'” No matter how weird or difficult the excuses police give to those they apprehend, citizens must obey without question. Legal scholars theorize that imprisonment without limits and proper investigation and the monitoring of citizens infringe upon citizens' rights. If this becomes the standard, it would be a sad state of affairs for the U.S. and is one reason America is on a downward spiral. The government is no longer satisfied with arrest and a proper trial for normal citizens. If these type of incidents escalate because the government is unsatisfied, then the government will come under fire again, creating an unsteady society.

America will often say anything about the human rights situation of close to 200 other countries, including China, but refuses to look at its own shortcomings. U.S. surveillance aircraft can go into any country they please to illegally scout, as unmanned drones have freely entered Pakistan, among other countries, to carry out attacks on normal citizens. Aircraft carriers sail in all the big oceans, posing a threat to many countries. The number of nuclear warheads they possess amounts to more than any other country in the world, and on top of that they are increasing their research of nuclear weapons. Two hundred thousand U.S. military troops monitor other countries' actions 24 hours a day. At the same time, they can freeze, attack and destroy an enemy's satellites, and by releasing a virus they can also infiltrate and shut down an enemy's Internet, using these types of methods to impede other countries. Washington has already become the greatest threat to world peace, so of course they have received intense criticism from the entire world.

America's “changing the face of anti-terror” is also shown through their treatment of Russian armed fighters from Chechnya. Many times, Chechen fighters have attacked, shot and killed normal citizens — it is a type of terrorist organization. But after White House officials’ “transformation” of the issue, it became a “minority problem,” and they even injected funds through the CIA to support Chechen armed forces. Democracy is the slogan Washington uses the most, but their standards are abnormal. At a glance the White House is democratic, just as countries like Saudi Arabia are absolute monarchies but are also classified as “democracies.” Looking closely, it is a dictatorship, an axis of evil. Saddam in Iraq was crowned a “democratic activist” by America. Later, he was called a dictator by the American military and fatally attacked. This illustrates that the U.S. standard of “democratic human rights” is a kaleidoscope of rapid change.