Originally published February 1 2004
China has totalitarian laws that would never be tolerated in a free
society like the United States
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
As a Communist country, China has laws and regulations that most people
in the United States -- a free country -- would consider to be
totalitarian and heavy handed, if not downright evil. As this article
describes, China's laws include the following: 1. Chinese police
authorities may conduct surveillance and searches against its citizens
without showing any probably cause of suspected criminal activity.
2. Chinese agents can conduct "sneak-and-peek" searches of the houses
and businesses of ordinary citizens without prior notice, and without
the searches having any chance of being challenged.
3. The Chinese
government may record and track all its citizens' business and personal
records, including library books read by each person, medical records,
counseling and psychiatric files, credit reports and other information.
4. When the Chinese government demands this data from people like
librarians or medical record administrators, the government does not
have to obtain any warrant whatsoever or even show probably cause in
requesting the records. Furthermore, the people forced to provide such
records are prevented, under threat of prosecution, from telling anyone.
Sounds bizarre, doesn't it? This is the sort of stuff that only a
truly totalitarian government could dream up.
Now, allow me to
apologize in advance because I've just deceived you. Everything you've
just read isn't the law in China at all: it's United States law,
and it was passed under the Bush Administration as part of the Patriot
Act.
Barriers to the Constitutional Right to Privacy Patriot Act --
Forgoing liberty for safety?
Some sections of the Patriot Act are worse than useless: They are an
assault upon the foundation of American freedom.
-- The government does not have to give notice, obtain a warrant or a
subpoena, or show there is probable cause that a crime has been
committed.
Persons turning over personal data to the government (such as
librarians, doctors, co-workers or neighbors) are prohibited, under
threat of federal criminal prosecution, from telling anyone.
Were a totalitarian government to be imposed upon us, its inception
would look strikingly like these provisions.
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