Good intentions of the American state
"Russian peacemaker" recently published an article by Fyodor Pavlov, "Censorship in American Style." With reference to the British edition of The Daily Mail, the author told readers about the well-known US structure - the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is part of the Cabinet of the US President. The main tasks of this small ministry are to protect the US territory from terrorist threats, ensure the security of state borders, enforce immigration laws, and respond to natural disasters. DHS was created in accordance with the US National Security Act of 2002 of the year, in turn, adopted after the attack of 11 of September of 2001 of the year.The Daily Mail, the author writes, recently gave a list of words used by the Department to monitor Internet sites and social networks: terrorism, dirty bomb, terrorist attack, hostage, China, Mexico, snow, pork, cloud, virus, metro , airport and mn. etc. So if an American would write to someone about having breakfast bacon with scrambled eggs at the airport, vigilant DHS employees could take it with a pencil.
The fact is that employees of the structure are not looking for existing threats, but for potential. These guys get paid for finding something that, in principle, no. So we, Russians, condemn our officials for “drank” the budget, because our offices are trying to spend the entire budget to a penny - so that after the New Year to receive funding in no smaller amounts (and better - in large). But what are the democratic and freedom-loving American officials who teach the whole world how to live their life better than ours?
“Not everything is smooth with the United States,” Fyodor Pavlov writes, “is also in the area of requests for confidential user information from international organizations. According to the Google report for the second half of 2011 of the year, the US government tried to control the flow of information on the Internet much more often than the government of any other country in the world. The United States received personal data on request more than 6321 times (and more than 12 000 times for the whole year). It was also filed more 2000 requests to delete those or other personal pages on the Internet. The United States ranks first in the world in terms of these indicators. Russian government organizations, by comparison, turned to Google 58 once every six months for providing personal data and less than 10 times for deleting content. ”
Nevertheless, in the lists of authoritarian states in which government censorship is rampant, America cannot be met. Since America condemns China or Russia, or, say, Syria, precisely because of the lack of freedom of speech, then, obviously, the States themselves should not only be the bearer of all kinds of freedoms, but also the standard of freedom-loving for the entire rigid world lagging behind the US somewhere in the tail. But the truth is that these lists themselves and the various ratings of freedoms are usually American organizations.
In addition to the Internet, the US government totally controls cellular communications. In an article by Madison Ruppert ("End the Lie") cites data received by congressman Edom Marki (Mass.), according to which mobile phone companies in 2011 responded to 1.300.000 requests received from law enforcement agencies regarding information about subscribers. it documented million is the sum of responses to queries from AT&T, C Spire, Leap and Cricket, MetroPCS, Sprint, T-Mobile, TracFone, US Cellular, and Verizon ". They prove how widespread the practice of monitoring the country's citizens is.
Achieving publication data was not easy. For many years, according to Rupper, the US cellular companies flatly refused to provide the public with information about the frequency of law enforcement requests.
These bodies, the journalist writes, have the right to receive information from companies in various ways. They may request information, claiming that there is an immediate threat of harm, death or emergency, and also referring to subpoenas and court rulings.
Using mobile communications, the Americans, writes Ruppert, are by no means protected by the constitutional Fourth Amendment. AT & T alone has over 100 employees working 24/7 to fulfill law enforcement requests.
The journalist believes that requests are made too often and that American society has another example of how the United States quickly plunges into the Orwell nightmare.
The growth of the “police state” in the States in recent years has become so noticeable that it has not been heard of only the deaf. However, many Americans, judging by various polls whose data can be found on the Internet, approve law enforcement measures to search for terrorists and potential criminals, despite the fact that fundamental constitutional principles may be violated during such a search. The Americans, frightened by telepropaganda, especially developed after the September 11 attacks, are ready to give their personal lives to sifting through a small DHS sieve, if only in the cities it was calm. However, DHS and other services could not save anyone from the recent appearance of the “Joker” armed to the teeth in the cinema ...
In addition to the Department of Homeland Security, another well-known structure, the National Security Agency (NSA), intends to tackle Internet control in the United States. The guys from this department, unlike the workers of DHS, do not justify themselves to the press that they are looking for "potential enemies", and beat the budget for total surveillance on the Internet for each website and each user. Probably, in times of crisis, the NSA is pulling the budget blanket over itself. But maybe it is about something more?
American journalist Kurt Nimmo (pakalertpress.com), for example, writes that General Kate Alexander, the head of the NSA, wants the US government to centralize the Internet and force users to live with a system similar to the EZ Pass road monitoring system (a RFID-based transponder designed to collect duties on roads, bridges and tunnels in the United States).
This summer, at a computer conference in Las Vegas, the NSA boss quite specifically outlined the interests and aspirations of his service: "We need something similar for cybersecurity ... Think of us as an EZ Pass on the highway." The general explained something: “When you drive down the road and cross the EZ Pass lane, the only thing you do is send the code. This system does not look into your car, does not read e-mail and does not intercept everything. She just gets this code. ”
It is not true. “EZ Pass” does not just allow access to the highway, but also takes a little privacy from each passing person - of course, for the sake of ease of downloading data. About this newspaper «The New York Times» wrote back in 2005 year. It would be strange to think that the analogue of such a system on the Internet would set aside the “personal” one.
By the way, the NSA was ordered by Bush Jr. a few months after September 11 to eavesdrop on Americans and other residents of the United States, without demanding a warrant for that. NSA boss K. Alexander speaks to computer scientists and programmers just as part of the American fight against cyber threats, the budget priority of which was declared by Barack Obama on January 3 on January 2012, along with the reorientation of military forces to the APR. NSA, pulling the crisis budget blanket over itself, is going to lead this struggle on the domestic front. And in order to get ahead, the agency does not just monitor the network by some words, like DHS, but swings at total network control. If Alexander’s creative plans are realized, Big Brother in the USA will become a complete reality.
In order to turn the decentralized Internet into a mass system for centralized monitoring and a tracking system, Kurt Nimmo writes, “the government will hang us noodles on the ears of cyber attacks”. The government and its top secret intelligence service, he adds, will not calm down until they turn the Internet and the telecommunications system into a real-time monitoring and tracking center.
The ability to control everything and everyone in the United States is legislatively (despite the contradiction of the Constitution) fixed by a number of laws and acts, the very appearance of which progressive American scientists refer to the results of the "paranoid management style". For example, Dr. James F. Tracy (globalresearch.ca) highlighted a large number of laws classified as “paranoid” - from the Law on Foreign Enemies 1798 to the Regulation on Food Resources (2012 year). Professor Tracy’s collection includes, for example, the National Defense Defense Act of 2011, which can transfer cases of internal terrorist investigations, as well as interrogations to the military. This act allows you to remove the due process of law, indefinitely keep in custody of any person, including an American citizen. For such detention, you only need the assertion of the American government that these comrades are terrorists. Everything is simple and everything is fast. Without trial and investigation. Looking for totalitarianism in Russia? And under his nose did not look? ..
Dr. Tracy also reports that the budget of the notorious DHS in the 2011 fiscal year amounted to as much as 98.800.000.000 dollars. True, it was spent less: 66,4 billion dollars. The staff of the "office" worked in 2011. 200 thousands of people! The scale, of course, is amazing. Not surprisingly, the NSA considers this agency a serious budget competitor.
DHS, for its part, is pushing the NSA with a practical approach: this year, the Department of Homeland Security has signed contracts for the purchase of ammunition - as Tracy writes, "in quantities sufficient to eliminate the entire US population." This is about delivering around 5 millions of powerful ammunition for firearms over 500 years. weapons 0,40 caliber.
Undoubtedly, in order to unfold properly, one search for the word “pork” on the Internet is not enough. And it is unlikely that you will ensure security within the country by monitoring alone. Therefore, duplicate state structures, which breed in America today like mushrooms after rain, in a hurry, are self-sufficient in cartridges. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama is not peace-loving enough to deny DHS weapons and ammunition.
Sensing strong competition in the domestic security market, DHS began a merger with the country's police apparatus, as well as with the army.
American journalist Mac Slavo (shtfplan.com, translation - mixednews.ru) writes that the Department of Homeland Security and law enforcement already now share large facilities intended for surveillance, Drones-observers and hybrid target groups.
Army Chief of Staff Raymond Odierno, who recently published an article in “Foreign Affairs,” the mouthpiece of American propaganda published by the Council on Foreign Relations, is ready for many things: “If necessary, we will also use military forces, especially those who have niche skills and appropriate equipment to provide civil authorities with a wide range of reliable and fast response options. ”
It turns out that in the US there is a hybrid of the army and the police, over which the image of the controlling "Big Brother" in the face of DHS hovers. It is only necessary for the sheriff in his small district to suspect any citizen of something, for example, that he is “threatening security”, and that he, the sheriff, is not on the shoulder, he, the sheriff, can cause an army - and its “quick response” will eliminate the problem. Mr. Odierno justifies such intervention by the army units by protecting the homeland "from an internal catastrophe", to which he attributes "insurgency" and terrorism.
J. Petras and R.I. Abaya (globalresearch.ca) claim that one of the most significant political events in the newest stories The United States was an unprecedented strengthening of the police state, characterized by a huge expansion of police powers in the executive branch, an extraordinary growth of the entire arsenal of repressive bodies with hundreds of thousands of their employees, a huge open and secret budget and the scale of state police surveillance, which monitors more than 40 (!) Millions US citizens.
At the same time, alas, the freedom-loving opposition in America almost faded away. In this article, the authors see the main difference between today's America and the former, which is characterized by a broad democratic movement from the middle to the end of the 20th century.
The growing apparatus of the police state is an undoubted fact. You just have to look, the authors write, on published personnel records, on huge budgets and dozens of institutions involved in internal espionage against tens of millions of American citizens. The scale and depth of the police state's actions, the journalists continue, have already reached arbitrary detentions and interrogations, captures and blacklisting of hundreds of thousands of US citizens.
But there are no mass protests against all this. In the US, there are only lonely courageous voices crying out for "civil liberties."
By carrying out its controlling activities, the state is everywhere looking for so-called "potential terrorists." The search center includes immigrants and citizens of Arab and Persian countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan, people of Somali origin and American Muslims. Mosques, Islamic charities and foundations are under constant surveillance in the United States. The second main group, which focuses on the activities of the police state, consists of African Americans, Hispanics and immigrant human rights defenders. People from this “circle”, as well as from the first one, can be subjected to arbitrary “stripping”, round-ups; they may also be detained indefinitely - without trial. Such effective means of action as indiscriminate deportations are also applied to them.
The “outer circle” of state suspicion includes public, civil, religious, and trade union leaders and activists who, in the course of their activities, interact with “inner circles” or at least express support for them. People from the “outer circle” also become victims of a police state that violates procedural rules.
The three “circles” described are the central goals of the current police state, including over 40 millions of US citizens and immigrants who have not committed, by the way, any crimes.
It must be added here that the “circles of hell” described represent not only a well-developed scheme of monitoring and controlling those who are “potentially” able to deviate from law-abiding behavior in the United States, but also a model according to which, in democratic America, if necessary, internal enemies are found who justify the very existence of various departments and structures like the DHS, the NSA, the CIA and others, not to mention the very machine of the strong police state.
Today, the American state is enough the slightest reason to identify the next "potential" enemy and send him "controllers".
For example, the other day, Alex Jones, the owner and host of the popular Infowars site, found out that DHS monitors his site, and at the same time accompanying sites, starting with 2009 of the year. What was the reason for monitoring? As pointed out by Paul Joseph Watson, author "Infowars", the authorities took up the site because Jones called on citizens to report “police state” manifestations - in response to the DHS program, urging citizens to report “suspicious activity” to the authorities (i.e., simply speaking, “knocking” on "Enemies of the people"). In addition, the Department of Homeland Security did not like that the campaign conducted by Infowars was based on the use of the V symbol, which at one time meant the upcoming Victory of the French Resistance against the Nazi occupation in World War II. DHS decided that this letter ... was taken from the movie "V" means vendetta. "
Like this. In the US, the time has come for not suspicious words, but letters!
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The state’s concern for security is, at first glance, a pure boon for citizens. Cartridges are purchased to shoot violators of the law, the Internet is "see-through" for the sake of those individuals who suspiciously visit airports and utter the word "pork", cell phones are tapped, too, not because policeman John suspected his wife, Sarah, firefighter neighbor Sam. Soon "Big Brother" through the providers will climb into every computer - and also not to penetrate the personal life of users. No, God forbid: the NSA, like the CIA, the FBI and DHS, will look for criminals, especially “potential”, in order to prevent the crimes they are plotting by sharpening the suspicious rascal in Guantanamo. And in order to find and find those easier, the secret agency will take advantage of the proven scheme of the "infernal circles". With good intentions. American citizens, for each of which at the state in store for the bullet, can sleep peacefully.
Comrades Americans! Remember: the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Observed and translated by Oleg Chuvakin
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