Knights in the big world of American TV series

The person coming is none other than Barry, the Flash.

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

There is no way, at this stage, all places in the United States basically regard superheroes as local business cards! Superheroes mean that the safety of the city is guaranteed, and they also mean the city’s heritage... After all, cities without superheroes, such as Miami and Hawaii,

It was directly destroyed.

Miami is fine, but Hawaii is such a military port. The entire U.S. Seventh Combined Fleet is there, but so what? The entire fleet and the entire city are simply gone...the garrison is useless. The opposite example is New York.

There are many superheroes in New York, so New York has gone through many major events and still remains standing.

The whole world is no longer safe!

The most obvious example is... At this stage, the construction of the "Skynet" system in the United States has begun!

Yes, Americans have begun to install cameras everywhere. And the progress of this work is not as big as imagined... In general impression, the United States has long regarded itself as a "powerful country for human rights" and a "country of democracy"

, the core value of its culture is freedom, and the right to personal privacy is crucial to the democracy and freedom of American society. Without personal privacy, it is difficult for individuals to escape the pressure of the government and society and become independent.

Think about it, the right to privacy is closely related to individual creativity and independence. A society without personal privacy cannot be a free society. Americans are also well-known for their emphasis on personal privacy. The "Prism Gate" incident two years ago was caused by the

The infringement of personal privacy caused an uproar in all walks of life in the United States and the international community. In the end, it won the understanding of most American people because the targets of surveillance were not citizens of the country and its role in counter-terrorism.

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

The most famous one is the ‘Patriot Act’!

Less than two months after the "9·11" incident, the then US government signed the "Patriot Act". The introduction of this act was considered an important measure for the US government to respond to the threat of terrorism. However, few people

You know, this bill actually provides the government and security agencies with unlimited surveillance powers, legalizing the surveillance and monitoring of citizens.

But in fact, the U.S. government did not start spying and monitoring citizens only after the passage of the Patriot Act. The FBI had been secretly conducting illegal eavesdropping long before that. As time went by, this behavior became more and more rampant.

Many Americans are unaware that their phone calls, emails and online activity may be subject to 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 U.S. government has acquired almost ubiquitous surveillance powers. It is worth it

Note that this kind of monitoring is not limited to certain suspicious individuals, but covers the entire society.

Ensuring national security and safeguarding personal privacy rights seem to be an irreconcilable contradiction: the former is very urgent due to the shadow of "9·11", while the liberalism embodied in the latter is the foundation of the founding of the United States; the former is always facing severe challenges

realistic threats and damage results

The consequences may be extremely serious, and 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 "9·11", American society has become more concerned about the right to privacy.

There has been endless debate about whether information technology is more important than national security.

Privacy rights and national security in the age of technology are facing huge challenges. At that time, the United States entered the "Era of Fear", and almost everyone was worried about the "return" of terrorism. As long as this fear lasts, the National Security Agency and other security agencies seem to have

They have the right to take all necessary measures to counter terrorism in the name of the people, even at the expense of infringing on personal privacy rights to prevent possible terrorist attacks. After Snowden disclosed the large-scale surveillance activities of the U.S. intelligence agencies, American society began to monitor government

Large-scale protests. The media set off a wave of discussion. Anti-

Are the terrorist threats facing the United States worth sacrificing so many privacy rights, or do these large-scale surveillance activities really contribute to national security? A poll by the Pew Research Center in the spring of 2014 showed that 54% of respondents

Those who disagree with the government’s need to invest heavily in counter-terrorism

With large-scale collection of phone and network data, as many as 74% of people expressed their unwillingness to give up "privacy and freedom" for "security". More and more people believe that the United States has gradually slipped into the authoritarian country it most opposes, and "Prism"

"gate" incident only revealed the tip of the iceberg. The United States

The government monitors almost every word and deed of the people. The U.S. Security Agency passes the information it obtains to agencies at the federal, state and local levels to use the information to crack down on thieves. At the same time, these agencies are also instructed to "launder the information"

”, pretending to be obtained by legal means

This information was collected to avoid being used by defense lawyers. For example, the United States handed over the collected sensitive intelligence to other allies such as Israel and the United Kingdom, and then these allies transferred it back to the National Security Agency to "launder" it. These methods have allowed the United States to

Sliding 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 U.S. government and its related agencies have relied on their own technological advantages to conduct large-scale and indiscriminate surveillance and theft of secrets all over the world. Whether it is against its own citizens or foreign governments, companies and individuals, the U.S. surveillance operations have reached the point of being wanton and reckless.

It is lawless and seriously violates international law and basic norms of international relations. Facts have repeatedly proved that the United States

The United States is a "surveillance empire" that endangers the world. The Center for Privacy and Technology Law at Georgetown University released a report titled "America's Dragnet: Data-Driven Deportations in the 21st Century." The report revealed that over the years, U.S. immigration and customs

The Enforcement Agency has carefully crafted a complex and vast surveillance network that goes far beyond its duties as an immigration agency.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In fact, the United States began to monitor and censor communications in and out of the United States during World War I and World War II. Since then, its large-scale surveillance practices have been used throughout the Cold War.

period continues. During the American Civil Rights Movement, many

Many Americans were also placed under government surveillance orders. In 1972, the Watergate incident occurred in the United States, and the abuse of power and illegal surveillance led to a political scandal. With the development of the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency and other agencies,

Surveillance in the United States is becoming institutionalized. Especially in the "9

After the 11th Incident, in the name of "national security" and "anti-terrorism," the U.S. government passed legislation such as the Patriot Act, the Protecting America Act, and the 2008 Amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to continuously expand the powers of security agencies.

Although former U.S. defense contractor employee Snow

The abuse of surveillance by the United States was exposed to the world by websites such as WikiLeaks and WikiLeaks. Under pressure, the United States passed a bill in 2015 to end its domestic surveillance programs. However, in fact, U.S. intelligence agencies and other departments are still operating without authorization.

Extensive monitoring will continue to be implemented under the circumstances.

The U.S. government has also been tyrannical in the name of "national interests" for a long time, conducting pervasive surveillance and network surveillance on other countries and even allies. The United States has a long history of monitoring the world. Whether it was the "Black Box Plan" after World War I or the "Operation Clover" after World War II,

Or relied on the "echelon system" to obtain global intelligence collection capabilities during the Cold War; whether it was gathering alliances

Friends have formed the notorious multinational surveillance organization "Five Eyes Alliance", or have created backdoors through the hacker organization "Formula Organization" since the 21st century, spying on and invading hundreds of targets in more than 45 countries and regions around the world... The U.S. government's foreign policy

Governments, enterprises and personnel carry out large-scale, organized and indiscriminate eavesdropping and surveillance. In recent years, the United States has

Surveillance scandals have been exposed time and time again. In 2013, according to confidential documents disclosed by Snowden, the US National Security Agency monitored the phone calls of 35 foreign leaders, and used technical means to track and steal mobile phone activity information on a global scale.

There are as many as 5 billion records. Former British "Guardian" reporter Glenn Greenwald published a lecture in 2014

The book "Nowhere to Hide", which recounts the Snowden incident, lists shocking data: The US National Security Agency remotely stole 97 billion emails and 124 billion phone calls within 30 days, including 500 million from Germany.

, 2.3 billion copies in Brazil, 13.5 billion copies in India, 70 million copies in France, 60 million copies in Spain...

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

So in fact, Americans have a clear understanding of the virtues of their own government.

In the past, as soon as they heard that the government was going to build a surveillance system, the people went crazy... Mainly because they knew very well what kind of evil deeds these people had.

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

But it's different now.

Mainly because the sense of security is gone.

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 said you were democratic, you were. If they said you were not democratic, you were not, no matter what!

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

But what now? They no longer feel safe. In the United States, a city was razed to the ground overnight!

Although in this kind of disaster, even if you fill it with surveillance cameras, it will be of no use. But Americans surprisingly agreed. They don't need surveillance, but 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 positively on those superheroes... Of course, some people are beginning to worry about who will supervise those superheroes. After all, they themselves have extra-legal treatment and are still supported by the public. In the long run, will there be superheroes?

Replace the government!

The government is also secretly accumulating strength in this regard. For example, Team X was born under this situation!

In short, the influence of superheroes is very powerful now.

People who work in the 'industry' like the Albanian gangsters naturally pay more attention to superheroes.

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

How much these people like to rob... they even carried out robberies at the airport in their own capital!

On April 9, 2019, four armed robbers cut through the barbed wire fence, drove into the Mother Teresa International Airport in the country's capital, and stole 10 million euros from an Austrian Airlines passenger plane bound for Vienna.

A gunfight broke out between the robbers and the security personnel. One robber was shot dead and the other three fled. The police were shot dead

Bullets and grenades were found on the robbers, and the three fleeing people were subsequently hunted down with the support of helicopters. Four suspects have been arrested so far, and more than 40 people have been brought to the police station for investigation. One Europe

How easily armed robbers could breach security at the nation's capital's international airport and

They fought to the tarmac, exchanged fire with the security personnel transporting banknotes, and finally robbed 10 million euros and escaped! Is this a movie? No, this is a real robbery that happened in Albania! It is even more speechless.

Yes, according to local media reports, this is not the first time that robbers have rushed onto a passenger plane at the international airport.

Go grab money! In the past three years, there have been at least two similar cash robberies at the airport. In February 2017, 3.2 million euros were stolen. The police later found that part of the cash was packed in a pressure cooker and buried underground.

In June 2016, 995,000 euros were robbed. There were also at least two robberies in 2015.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As for other countries...it is even more unscrupulous.

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

In the United States, hundreds of bank robberies occur every year. Many banks do not even install bulletproof glass, and some even have no glass at all. There is only a simple counter where you can communicate face-to-face with bank staff. What’s even more surprising is

Yes, the bank requires its employees not to resist when they are robbed. After all, if the money is gone, the insurance company can

Insurance companies compensate, but people's safety is the most important thing. Interestingly, robbers in the United States usually do not use real guns when robbing. They may use daily necessities such as toy pistols, lighters, bananas or ear picks as robberies.

Tools. They know that in the United States, as long as they write "robbery" on a deposit slip and include a threat, the bank will

The bank staff will ask you very politely if you need a plastic bag, and then put the money in it and hand it to you. The bank does not want its employees to be harmed, so it requires them to cooperate with the robbers. Why don’t robbers in the United States carry real guns?

What about robbing a bank? The reason is, in the United States, if you use a weapon or harm someone else while robbing a bank, the law

The legal punishment will be very different. In fact, robbing a bank in the United States is not an easy task because the cash in the bank is very limited. One robber became an Internet celebrity and he robbed hundreds of stores.

The banks only robbed a total of 3 million US dollars. There was too little cash in the banks, especially in banks in some small cities.

Once, an Asian-American farmer tried to withdraw US$3,000 in cash from a bank in a small city in the United States, but the bank told him that he did not have enough cash and needed to make an appointment one day in advance. He was very surprised at the time because the bank did not even have glass.

No, it was just a simple counter. When the farmer returned to the bank to withdraw money the next day, he saw an armored vehicle parked at the door and two security guards wearing bulletproof vests. They provided escort services for his $3,000.

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

But in order not to conflict with superheroes, Albanian gangsters gave up this traditional business!