Super Memory or Super Oblivion
About 50 US government agencies share the integrated individual-information database that keeps about 560 million items related to US citizens and residents most of whom have taken a special attention of those agencies, according to a Japanese newspaper.
Tens of thousands of officials of those US governmental departments and institutions are allowed to access the database containing information FBI, CIA and other agencies have collected for prevention of terror.
I suppose this kind of intelligence strategies and operations in the War on Terror should be an issue in the Presidential Election in 2008, since such database can be a source of tragedy and unhappiness of many innocent citizens if handled in a wrong manner.
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When a war continues long and very long at least psychologically, something wrong happens as history has proven.
In the end of WWII, nuclear bomb attacks were carried out onto Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the summer of 1945.
After withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam, a large-scale massacre was conducted in Cambodia in 1970's, taking lives of more than one million citizens.
After the Gulf War and during a containment operation against Iraq in 1990's, Al-Qaeda's terror attacks were launched and continued through the 9/11 terror to the present day.
Indeed, when a war continues long and very long at least psychologically, something wrong happens as history has proven.
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My worry is that that something terrible might be concerned with the integrated individual-information database that keeps about 560 million items related to US citizens and residents.
Some South Asians have been reportedly assaulted and attacked in the U.S. since the 9/11 terror. But, such offence might be further carried out in social systems based on electronics, without being noticed by public.
Especially those with such information will be able to take a strong stance to others, including their rivals who may have nothing to do with terror.
Therefore, as one possibility, when the War on Terror ends, the U.S. society might be split into tow groups: one with detailed information on other citizens and another without it.
The former might form a new elite class in US society with stronger influence and control on the whole people than today's US elites have, which is not good for sound development of democratic and free society.
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When a war continues long and very long at least psychologically, something wrong happens as history has proven.
My another worry is that that something terrible might be not prevented at all by the integrated individual-information database that keeps about 560 million items related to US citizens and residents.
Americans should better listen to Japanese sometimes, since Japan's security depends on the U.S. security and economic outlook. Japanese might be able to see and hear something Americans cannot; that something might be critical for the U.S. security and economic outlook.
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Indeed, if America is friendly to Japan, 90% of U.S. security and economic outlook are secured (in 1990's the US Government or some of its Departments and Agencies were actually engaged in the Japan-US Money War, according to the majority of Japanese experts in this sector).
In other words, if America becomes unfriendly to Japan, we suspect Americans are getting out of order and line; in this case, Japan will have to issue a warning to the U.S. even through a blog.
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Nonetheless, the God has complete database on each member of mankind.
You only have to ask God to guide you through human relations, since God has complete database on each member of mankind.
Indeed, the God should know who loves you and who needs you as well as who are safe to you.
(Storing things in your memory is an important skill. However, releasing things out of your memory is also an important skill.
What will a human being see when he or she can make, at any moment, his or her memory completely clean? Have you seen yourself if not an Angel?)
"...The Lord Has Made a Solemn Promise and Will Not Take It Back..."