Should The U.S. Be Spying On Its Friends?
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Should The U.S. Be Spying On Its Friends?

Spying on friends is outrageous and shameful.

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Should The U.S. Be Spying On Its Friends?
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The espionage is the practice of spying or using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information. The United States spies on friends and foes. Recent Wikileaks' revelations corroborate the U.S. espionage activities. Nothing is wrong with spying on the enemies, but spying on allied nations is outrageous and shameful.

Spying has always been a big business in U.S. government. It reached its peak during the cold war. It’s such a serious business that the U.S. government extends its subversive activities to friendly countries, among which Germany, France and many other allied nations, based on WikiLeaks’ revelations. When a country spies on a friendly country, it’s a breach of loyalty, not to call that practice an act of treason so to speak. Therefore, the United States is allegedly guilty of being disloyal.

The Espionage Act of 1917 is a federal law passed in the United States on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. It was originally found in Title 50 of the U.S. Code (War) but is now found under Title 18, Crime.

The goal of this act was to prevent the meddling with the military activities and the support of the United States enemies in wartime. But the U.S. spying activities have gone beyond the intended Espionage Act of 1917. The primary purpose of the U.S. espionage activities on its friends is to seek out international control in whatever field, whether it is political, economic, military, or otherwise. It is a political game that superpowers aggressively play against one another. The United States, China and Russia are supposedly at the forefront of this international spying practice.

In addition, the United States mercilessly spies on friends and foes to maintain its political influence at home and around the world. For instance, under the guise of assisting other countries, the U.S. government exploits and spies on any poor and developing countries. After its independence, the United States, unlike other countries , still maintained slavery for free labor. To guarantee at any cost its number one spot in the world affairs, the United States makes espionage its number one priority.

Spying on friendly countries is still going on because every powerful country is vying for a position of control around the world. It’s a matter of what secret one nation can steal from another, whether friends or foes, that would make a breakthrough and that would rank that nation higher in world importance. For now, nobody is spying on anybody until the spy of a presumed country is caught red handed.

"The monitoring of friends -- this is unacceptable, it can't be tolerated. We're no longer in the Cold War. Our cooperation must be based on trust. This trust must be reestablished now," Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany.

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