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Does Echelon Security Remove Our Freedoms?

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After 9/11, the US intelligence agencies were frantic to enhance our national security and wanted to use any means possible to do that, including the creation of the Echelon security system.

Using the satellites ushered in after the FISA act of 1978, intelligence agencies here and abroad, felt that this new plan was the answer.

In 2002, intelligence agencies got even more power to spy on communications, domestic or foreign. 

With this type of security, intelligence agencies have the ability to monitor our phone conversations, faxes, cell phone calls and even email and Internet usage.

However, with that comes the usurpation of the US Constitution. 

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The Truth

According to the latest changes since 2002, the Attorney General has the right to bypass the Fourth Amendment and to authorize extreme means to glean information from American citizens all under the guise of Echelon security. 

In its pristine state, this technology could save American lives and thwart terrorist attacks. In the hands of the global elite, it is a powerful tool in tracking every citizen on earth.

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Are We Safer?

The newest satellites today that are involved in these Echelon security operations have the ability to pinpoint communications of particular individuals, to track their whereabouts at any given moment supposedly making the world more secure. 

On paper that might look possible, but in real life, intelligence agencies could not stop the London subway bombings even though the satellites were working, even though nearly a half-million cameras monitored Londoners as they traversed the city. 

That is not to say there have not been successes utilizing spy satellites.

Obviously the pictures taken of foreign nuclear power plants being constructed or missile installation sites have helped intelligence agencies to monitor our enemies, but there is a cost here to individual citizens. 

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Goodbye Freedom

Henry Kissinger has said repeatedly since the 1980’s that Americans would be willing to give up their freedoms and their rights if there were attacks on the homeland. Immediately following 9/11, most Americans would agree. 

Since the augmentation of the latest satellites and the infringement on our constitutional rights, some Americans are having second thoughts and justifiably so. 

Perhaps the line between espionage and surveillance has been blurred and in fact it could be said that the line between security and Big Brother tactics has been crossed. 

With advances in technology, the world has grown smaller and dangers have increased in part because of the US government’s need to police the world.

Echelon security does not in itself secure the globe or guard our borders. 

Satellites can only give us pictures, chunks of communications and perhaps a false sense of security.

It’s the extrapolation of that information and the use or misuse of it that determines national security or an Orwellian nightmare. 

It is unlikely that this monumental electronic surveillance will give people a sense of security.

Instead, it will lead to untold paranoia and in the last analysis will only provide security for the global banking mafia.

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