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Spiegel: America is sick, very sick!
July 18, 2013 · 0 Comments
AP
15.07.2013
America’s delusion
A comment by Klaus Brinkbäumer
U.S. President Obama imagines himself above the law.
The U.S. is sick. The 11th September 2001, it has wounded and bewildered, that’s been obvious for almost twelve years, but how serious is the disease that we understand only now. The NSA affair puts some open, not just the phone calls and the digital lives of many millions of people. The spying on the world shows that the U.S. has become manic, that they act pathologically over grip, what they do, is out of proportion to the danger.
Since 2005 have come from terrorism each year an average of 23 Americans killed, most abroad. “More Americans die by falling television,” writes Nicholas Kristof in the “New York Times,” “and 15 times as many die because they fall from the ladder.” Since 2001 the U.S. has spent eight trillion dollars for military and homeland security.
The threats are different. The real short-term risk is homemade: About 30,000 Americans die each year from firearms. That American children are shot, is 13 times as likely as children in other industrialized countries. In contrast, the Congress and President Barack Obama do little or, to be fair, nothing. They talk about it every now and then, after each killing spree. And the gun lobby, terminally ill, says that many weapons are needed for self-defense.
And against the true long-term risks such as climate change takes the essential America pays nothing or, to be fair: too little too late.
All this does not mean that terrorism would not exist: There were 9/11, and al-Qaeda exists. But the spying of citizens and embassies, corporations and allies of violating international law. It is monstrous and so unlawful as Guantanamo, where for eleven and a half years detained and force-fed people present against the often no evidence and today therefore can not be released because they America is now hate, so illegal like drones that kill people Obama by signing the release to shoot.
A political discussion about all this takes place as well as not. Attacks were prevented by the spying, says Obama, says Angela Merkel, and we have to believe them. How do you explain voters and citizens to children whose parents, governments, already know what’s right. Exists that free America that should be defended, yet, or it has been abolished by the defense itself?
Now we know: There is only one America
An American government that enshrine a spy program such as Prism, respects no one and nothing more. She lives omnipotence, she imagines himself above the rule of law in their own country anyway and even abroad. Now that Obama is so, is dismal. If it were up to the Bush administration, you might think: It’s just Bush, who is predictable, there is still a better America. Now we know: There is only one America. If the former Harvard lawyer Obama’s speeches on the return of civil rights actually believed? Can anyone be so cynical promise to heal the world, to act in this way and as if to explain xenophobic, so it would only foreigners bugged? Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, Obama’s role models are, what would they say?
The German government behaves slightly devastating . Merkel had to say: you are manic, and what you are doing is sick. Friends say that. Instead, she weighs every word will not only alienate the U.S.. A comparison of the NSA with the Stasi it deems inappropriate, but he’s not, because comparisons not mean that two things need to be identical. The Stasi has destroyed families, the NSA probably not. But the use of available technology, the care of the enemy, the acquisitiveness, the belief to stand on the right, the good side: Is not there a pattern yet?
Angela Merkel has vowed to prevent damage to the German people. To be listened to and thus have to expect that every email is read along, violation of privacy, which is a loss.
Each voter knows that real politics can be ugly, because the policy is tradeoff. The crucial question is: What greater good justifies breaking the law of the U.S. and the German services Contribute? It’s time for answers.
Spiegel, automatic translation from German
By myfuamerica
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