The knight in the big world of American TV series

Chapter 2088: Writing in the hospital, asking for monthly votes! ! ! !

Chapter 2088: Writing in the hospital, asking for monthly votes! ! ! !

The person who came was Barry, also known as the Flash.

It has to be said that the Flash is well-known enough in Los Angeles, and the Albanian gang members in front of them recognized the superstar at once!

There is no way. At this stage, all places in the United States basically regard superheroes as local business cards! Superheroes mean that the city is safe and secure, and also mean the city's heritage... After all, cities without superheroes, such as Miami and Hawaii, would be directly destroyed.

Miami is not a big deal. Hawaii is a military port, and the entire US Seventh Fleet is there, but so what? The entire fleet and the entire city are gone... The garrison is useless. The opposite example is New York.

There are many superheroes in New York, so New York remains standing despite many major events.

The whole world is no longer safe!

The most obvious example is... At this stage, the United States' "Skynet" system has begun to be built!

Yes, the Americans have also started to install cameras everywhere. And the advancement of this work is not as great as imagined... In the general impression, the United States has long regarded itself as a "human rights power" and a "democratic country". The core value of its culture lies in freedom, and personal privacy is crucial to democracy and freedom in American society. Without personal privacy, it is difficult for individuals to escape the pressure of the government and society and think independently. Privacy is closely related to personal creativity and independence. A society without personal privacy cannot be a free society. It is also widely known that Americans value personal privacy. The "Prism Gate" incident two years ago caused an uproar in all walks of life in the United States and the international community because of the violation of personal privacy. In the end, it was forgiven by most American people because the targets of surveillance were not citizens of the country and it played a role in anti-terrorism.

In fact...counterintuitively, Americans are actually quite accepting of government invasion of privacy!

The most famous of these is the 'Patriot Act'!

Less than two months after the September 9th attacks, the then US government signed the Patriot Act. The introduction of this act is considered an important measure for the US government to deal with the threat of terrorism. However, few people know that this act actually provides the government and security agencies with unlimited surveillance powers, making the monitoring and surveillance of citizens legal.

But in fact, the US government did not start monitoring and surveillance of citizens after the passage of the Patriot Act. The FBI had been secretly conducting illegal wiretapping long before that. Over time, this behavior has become more rampant. Many Americans do not know that their phone calls, emails, and online activities may be under surveillance. Data shows that from 2001 to 2021, surveillance through the Patriot Act has affected the lives of millions of Americans. Under the protection of this act, the US government has obtained almost ubiquitous surveillance powers. It is worth noting that this surveillance is not limited to certain suspicious persons, but is widespread throughout society.

Securing national security and maintaining personal privacy seem to be an irreconcilable contradiction: the former is very urgent due to the shadow of "9", while the latter embodies liberalism, which is the foundation of the United States; the former is always facing severe real threats and the damage may be extremely serious, while the latter is one of the things that Americans are most proud of and cherish. How to reconcile the contradiction between the two is a difficult problem facing the United States. In fact, after "11", American society has been arguing about which is more important, privacy rights or national security. Both privacy rights and national security in the information technology era face huge challenges. At that time, the United States entered the "Age of Fear", and almost everyone was worried about the "return of terrorism". As long as this fear still exists, the National Security Agency and other security agencies seem to have the right to take all necessary anti-terrorism measures in the name of the people, even at the expense of personal privacy to prevent possible terrorist attacks. After Snowden disclosed the large-scale wiretapping activities of the US intelligence agencies, American society began to protest against government surveillance on a large scale. The media has set off a wave of discussion, reflecting on whether the terrorist threat faced by the United States is worth sacrificing so much privacy rights, or in other words, do these large-scale surveillance activities really help national security? A poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in the spring of 9 showed that 11% of respondents disagreed that the government needed to collect large-scale telephone and Internet data for counter-terrorism, and as many as 2014% of people said they were unwilling to give up "privacy and freedom" for "security." More and more people believe that the United States has gradually slid into the authoritarian country that they most oppose, and the "Prism Gate" incident has only revealed the tip of the iceberg. The US government monitors almost everything that the people say and do. The NSA passes the information it obtains to agencies at the federal, state and local levels, and uses this information to crack down on petty thieves. At the same time, these agencies will also be instructed to "launder" the information, pretending that the information was obtained by legal means, so as not to give defense lawyers a handle. For example, the United States handed over the sensitive intelligence it collected to other allies such as Israel and the United Kingdom, and then these allies passed it back to the NSA for "laundering." These methods have made the United States slide step by step towards an authoritarian "police state."

But the problem is that the United States is indeed a real "police state"!

For a long time, the US government and its related agencies have relied on their technological advantages to conduct large-scale, indiscriminate wiretapping and stealing secrets around the world. Whether it is for its own citizens or for foreign governments, companies and individuals, the US's wiretapping operations have reached the point of recklessness and lawlessness, seriously violating international law and basic norms of international relations. Facts have repeatedly proved that the United States is a "surveillance empire" that endangers the world. The Privacy and Technology Law Center at Georgetown University in the United States released a report titled "America's Dragnet: Data-Driven Deportations in the 21st Century." The report revealed that over the years, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency has carefully woven a complex and huge surveillance network, far exceeding its responsibilities as an immigration agency.

In fact, the United States began monitoring and censoring communications in and out of the United States during World War I and World War II, and its large-scale surveillance practices continued throughout the Cold War. During the American civil rights movement, many Americans were also placed under government surveillance orders. In 1972, the Watergate scandal occurred in the United States, and the abuse of power and illegal wiretapping caused a political scandal. With the development of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and other institutions, American surveillance has become institutionalized. Especially after the September 9th incident, the US government, under the name of "national security" and "anti-terrorism", passed legislation such as the Patriot Act, the Protect America Act, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendment 11, and continued to expand the authority of security agencies. Although former US defense contractor employee Snowden and the WikiLeaks website exposed the United States' abuse of surveillance to the world, the United States was forced to pass a bill in 2008 to end the domestic wiretapping program in the United States. However, in reality, US intelligence agencies and other departments continue to carry out extensive surveillance without authorization.

The US government has also long been rampant in the name of "national interests", conducting all-pervasive wiretapping and network monitoring of other countries and even allies. The United States has a long history of monitoring the world. Whether it is the "Black Box Project" after World War I, the "Operation Shamrock" after World War II, or the global intelligence gathering capabilities during the Cold War relying on the "Echelon System"; whether it is gathering allies to form the notorious multinational wiretapping organization "Five Eyes Alliance", or creating backdoors through the hacker organization "Equation Group" since the 21st century, spying on and invading hundreds of targets in more than 45 countries and regions around the world... The US government has carried out large-scale, organized, and indiscriminate wiretapping and monitoring of foreign governments, companies, and personnel. In recent years, the US global wiretapping scandal has been exposed again and again. In 2013, according to confidential documents disclosed by Snowden, the National Security Agency monitored the phone calls of 35 foreign leaders and tracked and stole mobile phone activity information worldwide through technical means, collecting up to 50 billion records every day. Glenn Greenwald, a former British Guardian reporter, published a book called Nowhere to Hide in 2014 about the Snowden incident, which listed shocking data: the US National Security Agency remotely stole 30 billion emails and 970 billion phone data in 1240 days, including 5 million from Germany, 23 billion from Brazil, 135 billion from India, 7000 million from France, and 6000 million from Spain...

The United States is addicted to surveillance and has never closed the "wiretapping gate" even in the face of criticism from all sides. In May last year, the media once again broke the news that the United States wiretapped the leaders of European allies such as Germany, France, Sweden, and Norway through the Danish intelligence agency.

So in fact, Americans know exactly what kind of character their own government is.

In the past, when people heard that the government was going to build a surveillance system, they would go crazy...mainly because they knew very well what kind of people these people were.

When there is no reason, they are unscrupulous. Once they are allowed to be reasonable and legal... God knows which direction things will go.

But now it's different.

The main thing is that I have lost my sense of security.

In the past, Americans were always confident that they were number one in the world, and everything in the world was defined by the United States. If they say you are democratic, you are; if they say you are not democratic, you are not. No matter what, you are not!

When he says you have weapons of mass destruction... you better actually have them!

But now? They don't feel safe anymore. In the United States, a city was razed to the ground overnight!

Although this kind of disaster is useless even if you install full surveillance, Americans surprisingly agree. They don’t need surveillance, but they need a sense of security.

Superheroes are undoubtedly the group of people who can bring the most sense of security to the people at this stage!

Therefore, many American media will report on superheroes in a positive way... Of course, some people begin to worry about who will supervise superheroes. After all, they already have super-legal treatment and are now supported by the people. In the long run, will superheroes replace the government?

The government is also secretly accumulating strength for this. For example, Team X was born under this circumstance!

In short, superheroes now have a very strong influence.

People who work in the industry, such as the Albanian gangs, naturally pay more attention to superheroes.

You have to know that after coming to the United States, this group of gangsters gave up their best business...that is robbing banks!

How much these guys love robbery... They even carried out robbery in their own Capital Airport!

On April 19, 4, four armed robbers cut through the barbed wire, drove into the Mother Teresa International Airport in the country's capital, and robbed 9 million euros from an Austrian Airlines passenger plane that was about to fly to Vienna. The robbers had a gunfight with security personnel, one robber was shot dead, and the other three fled. The police found bullets and grenades from the robbers who were shot dead, and then pursued the three fugitives with the support of helicopters. Four suspects have been arrested so far, and more than 4 people have been taken back to the police station for investigation. An international airport in the capital of a European country can be so easily broken through by armed robbers. Security defenses, and they killed to the apron, and exchanged fire with security personnel transporting money, and finally robbed 1 million euros and ran away! Is this a movie? No, this is a real robbery in Albania! What's even more speechless is that according to local media reports, this is not the first time that robbers have rushed to the passenger plane of the international airport to rob money! In the past three years, the airport has seen at least two similar cash robberies. In February 1, 3 million euros were stolen, and police later found that some of the cash was buried in a pressure cooker. In June 3, 4 euros were stolen. There were also at least two robberies in 40.

As for other countries... they are even more unscrupulous.

But after coming to the United States, this traditional skill was abandoned... although it is actually easier to rob a bank here.

Hundreds of bank robberies occur every year in the United States. Many banks don't even have bulletproof glass installed, and some don't even have glass, just a simple counter where you can communicate with bank employees face to face. What's more surprising is that banks require employees not to resist when they are robbed. After all, the insurance company can compensate for the loss of money, but the safety of people is the most important. Interestingly, American robbers usually don't use real guns when they rob. They may use daily necessities such as toy pistols, lighters, bananas or ear spoons as robbery tools. They know that in the United States, as long as you write "robbery" on the deposit slip and attach a threatening word, the bank staff will very politely ask if you need a plastic bag, and then put the money in it and give it to you. The bank does not want its employees to be hurt, so it requires them to cooperate with the robbers. Why don't American robbers bring real guns to rob? The reason is that in the United States, if you use weapons or hurt others when robbing a bank, the legal punishment will be very different. In fact, robbing a bank in the United States is not an easy thing because there is very limited cash in the bank. There was a robber who became an Internet celebrity. He robbed hundreds of banks and only robbed a total of 300 million US dollars. There is too little cash in banks, especially in some small cities.

Once, an Asian American farmer tried to withdraw $3000 in cash from a bank in a small city in the United States, but the bank told him that there was not enough cash and he needed to make an appointment one day in advance. He was very surprised at the time because the bank did not even have glass, just a simple counter. The next day, when the farmer returned to the bank to withdraw money, he saw an armored vehicle parked at the door and two security guards wearing bulletproof vests, who provided escort services for his $3000.

This is related to the special situation of the US banking industry.

But in order to avoid conflict with superheroes, the Albanian gangs gave up this traditional business!

This time the problem is really serious, it might be chronic renal failure... Damn, this thing is fatal!