Secondly, in the years after 9/11, American government has arrested, detained and tortured numerous people. The American Government continues to claim that it has power to designate anyone in the USA as “enemy combatant” and detain such person without cha
Much has been written since President Buhari said that National Interest/Security over-rides individual human rights in any progressive society. First and foremost, let me buttress what a NationState could do in order to maintain its national interest/ security. When it became obvious that the future king (Prince William) of Great Britain will one day have a half-brother, who is not only an Arab from Egypt, but also a Moslem, Princess Diana had a ‘motor accident’ that killed her and her unborn Arab child. While I was a student at University of Wisconsin, in 1992 a group of Americans in Taco Texas, during Reagan’s administration, declared their own sovereignty. That they do not subscribe to the Constitution of the United State of American (USA). We woke up one morning to see their camp razed and burnt down completely. The ABS, and CBS television stations simply reported the news. After that, no question was asked. No Civil Liberty Organization (CLO) or Civil Society Organization (CSO) raised any issue again.
In Israel, according to the 1949 Press Accord, The Chief of Staff and the Minister of Defence appoints a Brigadier General from the Intelligence, with a staff of over seventy military officers and civilian employees who interact with the Press on issues bordering on national security/interest. The team is based in Tel Aviv, and in Jerusalem. According to the accord, newspapers, radios, television stations and even foreign correspondents most not carry/publish items that undermine its (Israeli) national security. Again, we have seen how national security overshadows the need to know and/or the need to tell the public. After the Tuesday, September 11, 2001 (9/11) bombing of the World Trade Centre, in New York, and the Pentagon (Ministry of Defence) in Washington DC, only scanty information and pictures were shown about the Pentagon bombing. The US Press did not publicize the clearing of the affected building and its subsequent reconstruction because it was classified. The US Press did not betray their country’s national interest, and concentrated only on World Trade Centre.
Let us look at the USA democracy which this country copied. There is rule of law, civil liberty, and fundamental human rights in the USA. But in all, the National Interest/ Security over-rides all the individual human rights through the legislation of so many laws. The USA as the oldest presidential democracy has stepped on so many ‘toes’ for the sake of National Security/Interest. unconstitutional conducts by Security Agencies.
Fourthly, the No-Fly list was established to keep track of American citizens the government prohibits from traveling overseas and/or foreigners coming into the USA because they have been classified as security risks, and for the overall national interest. And, the American government agencies, like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Department of Defence, etc had conducted their own spying on innocent citizens in America for the interest of USA national security.
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