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![]() ![]() In the attacks of 9/11 terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger airplanes. They were armed with simple knives. Yet almost 3,000 innocent victims lost their life and damage worth over $50 billion was created. Not to mention the over 400,000 people who suffer from post-traumatic-stress disorder and health problems that are due to the toxic dust resulting from the collapse of the Twin Towers. A whole nation was caught being unprepared for such an horrific attack. Democratic elected governments around the world realized that terrorism reached a new level of threat that could not be fought with tanks, aircraft carriers or other conventional weapons. It became clear that new security measures had to be taken to confront this new challenge. New laws were being passed and intensive security measures followed. Yet news on the daily level of new terror attacks keep us reminding that the threat still exists. New strategies have to be implemented. The burden of war on terror is too heavy to carry for the U.S.A and their allies. Terrorism is a global threat and it needs to be fought on a global level by a global acting branch of government. Terrorists never act without the support of certain nations. Therefore, to prevent wars between countries it is essential to progressively disarm national forces to proceed to a point where no nation, state, group or individual has the military power or weaponry to challenge or threaten a global peacekeeping military power. The capacity of nations and groups to wage war has to be dismantled. The military power of each nation, both nuclear and conventional has to be abolished. Only weapons to keep up internal order for police work will be kept by the nations. Soon police forces of each nation will be united under the umbrella of a global acting police force. Moreover, a global constitution needs to come into effect for the global community. No legal loophole should exist in any place on our planet, where terrorists can hide and seek refuge. Nonetheless, this would be just the first step among others that need to follow to ensure global security, prosperity and freedom. However, there are more global terror threats that come from different directions. Our every day private and business life heavily depends on the usage of the internet.We communicate, we buy and sell online. We get and give sensitive information. So does the terrorist. Terrorists use the internet to plan, coordinate and finance their attacks, to spread their propaganda and give instructions on how to built weapons. We want to keep our civil liberties and need to learn to be more careful, to be precise and to navigate with a clear course. We need to learn that we need to sacrifice some of our privacy sphere in order to act independently in our every day life. Every global citizen needs to follow universal values like honesty, integrity and tolerance. Those who don't follow these values and sacrifice human life in order to reach their goal have to be found, stopped and defeated. The security of the internet is already a very important issue in the global community. Cyberspace terrorists hack the internet to steal money and classified information, hijack or damage corporate webpages and forge identities. The banking industry suffers heavy financial losses due to hackers every year. Imagine you undergo a serious operation and some criminal hacks into the hospitals network and applies a virus into it that causes the software of the surgery to malfunction. It would be even possible that some terrorists hack into the security system of a atomic power plant and overheat the plants reactor. Criminals and cyberspace terrorists don`t stop at borders. They work globally and hit where and when they want to without leaving any trace to follow on. That's why it is very important to establish a globally acting law enforcement that could be called the Global Cyberspace Police Center for Command and Surveillance ( GCPCCS ). Another very serious threat to the global community is product piracy. Global acting industries put billions of dollars into research and patent their products. Millions of jobs depend on the successful market placement and sale of these products. However, criminals simply don't care and want to produce successful products without going through the difficult, time consuming and costly process of developing it. All they have to do is to go to certain nations that tolerate product piracy and to choose if they want a certain watch, car parts, cutlery, perfume, software, medicine, clothes or any other product they wish for to be copied and produced. What has that to do with terrorism? Many terror networks finance themselves with product piracy, because they gain a faster and a bigger profit than they do with selling drugs. Again only a globally binding law that is enforced by an international police force can stop product piracy. A globally acting police force doesn't have to stop at borders while the terrorist smiles at them from the other side. This police force needs all the law enforcement power to guarantee security around the globe. All these strategies will be useless as long as the terrorist finds ways to gain profit out of criminal activities. The whole profit structure of all criminal activities would tumble down when money will not be anonymous anymore. The European Central Bank already started public debate if the chipping of EU banknotes would reduce counterfeiting and make the tracing of each banknote possible for criminal prosecutors. The implication of RFID ( Radio Frequency Identification ) chips in cash would put an immediate end to financial support of terrorism around the world. A global police force also needs the right tools and methods to find a terrorist anywhere around the globe in real time. Security experts warn that the threat of terror attacks with biological weapons and dirty bombs are very likely. The terrorist can choose when and where they will strike because the global community is still lacking a global warning system. For threats like that we need a center that monitors and collects all data about terrorists and their weapons. A Bio-Surveillance-System needs to come into action that detects and analyses indicators that point to a possible attack with biological weaponry. That goes along with the establishment of a Human-Detection-System that finds criminals in real time around the globe via genetic fingerprint and biometrical data. The embedding of RFID chips in passports should be just the beginning of new security measures that are introduced to guarantee safe global business and tourist traffic. Most global citizens would be regarded as low-risk travelers and could travel without being forced into the time consuming process of control. At the same time it will be almost impossible for terrorists to travel, because a global criminal record system would identify them as high- risk travelers and prevent them from traveling. Today we have more than 6 billion global citizens living on this planet. Around 2050 the number will go up to an estimated 9 billion. It will be a huge effort to govern, process and securely transport the data of 9 billion citizens. A gigantic global information network has to be implemented that is able to transfer and monitor all the necessary data. Privacy will be guaranteed to those who are law-abiding global citizens. However, terrorists will not enjoy such freedom. There will be a technological race between global law enforcement and terrorists. Let's make sure that justice prevails. To make one thing clear. The fight against terrorism should never be used to reduce the rights of law-abiding citizens for the sake of repressing the free will of the people. The definition of a terrorist will have to be defined and adjusted to the realities of our time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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There is a new kind of armed conflict. Conventional warfare between nations will fade into the background and unconventional warfare against terrorism in the foreground. Small, independently operating radical networks of terrorists concentrate on the civilian population to put governments under pressure and achieve their goals. Theirs is a face of evil that threatens the global community and their freedom. Terrorists hate democratic elected governments, because terroristic leaders are self elected and totalitarian. They want to disrupt and end our freedom to choose, to live in peace and harmony. A freedom that our forefathers have fought for on the battlefield. Yet many governments feel helpless to enforce the war on terror, because they still use traditional and old fashioned methods of warfare. |