On 'Counterterrorism'

It is fitting that, while we are fighting a proxy-"War on Terror" in Iraq, the amount of terrorist threats against the US has totalled zero and that we have had a greater amount of people killed by being stomped on by an elephant than that of those killed in terrorist attacks emenating from Iraq. This is just a microcosm of how overtly inefficient, inhumane and unconstitutional, the most of this in the history of the democratic system, our counterterrorism system is.

Never good, it is, for the Geneva Convention, one of
the most important documents in our history, a document we as a nation signed, to be called quaint and insignificant. But that is what our current Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, did as White House counsel. Because of this, we have been practicing torture instead of interrogation; not getting what we should hear, nor what is the truth, but what we want to hear. We have even, instead of correctly
and humanely interrogating our captives, sending them to countries such as Syria and Saudi Arabia so we can torture them by any means possible. When will this administration see that we signed a UN document, which, as a founding
nation of the UN, must uphold? When will our Attorneys General and President see that waterboarding is not what John Kerry did in 2004, nor a 'dunk in the water'? When will this administration and Cabinet see they are not a collective incarnation of Jack Bauer?

But it is not just this that shows the administration's ineptitude towards counterintelligence. Through a series of signing statements, executive orders, and the USA PATRIOT Act, the NSA can now check our library accounts, our mail(both electronic and of the 'snail' variety), our phone calls, and even what you're renting from your local Blockbuster. Do we, as an American society, want an
Orwellian-like NSA, CIA, DOD, and Presidency, who fight a continuous proxy-war while maintaining the ever-present shadow of Big Brother?

The counterterrorism system is a threat to everyone's civil liberties, everyone's safety, everyone's inalienable rights, as written by John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and as upheld by all 41 Presidents of the United States. Not only that, it does Al-Qaida's job for them; it doesn't stop terrorism, it creates it tenfold.