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Chapter 2183
Chapter 2183
Finally, the White House Chief of Staff stood up and said, "Mr. President, we haven't received any intelligence about Kai for more than a month. No one knows where he is or what he is doing."
There is nothing we can do about it.
The White House or the federal government naturally wants to monitor all destabilizing factors.
Kai is naturally one of them, and a very important one, including Tony Stark. The Federation has always had a voice, which is to try to effectively supervise these "super humans".
But sound is sound, and it is extremely difficult to make.
After all, whether it is the transformed people or those messy wizards and the like, each of them has extraordinary strength. They are capable and full of distrust of the government. If the government really legislates to treat such people differently, a disaster will be waiting for them.
First of all, it is legally tenable to regulate these superheroes or superhumans. I have always said before that superheroes are actually super criminals!
When it comes to superheroes, most people think of Ultraman, Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Iron Man, Flash, etc. Although they all have their own characteristics, most superheroes have the following characteristics: they have extraordinary strength and relevant technical capabilities, and are proficient in relevant equipment. They want to uphold justice, stand up when there is danger, have a strong sense of responsibility, and do not need any reward. They want to uphold justice, stand up when there is danger, have a strong sense of responsibility, and do not need any reward. So why are all superheroes guilty before the law?
The law is the inevitable result of the formation of the social contract, the guarantee of social order, and the cornerstone of maintaining social security. Since we all agree that human beings are born equal and that everyone is equal before the law, and that the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, theoretically, we should not agree with anyone or anything that violates the law, destroys social order, and endangers the social contract. Since everyone has concluded a social contract, the stability of sovereignty should be maintained under any circumstances. Some superheroes use personal violence to uphold justice and provide relief for the rights of others who have been infringed. In essence, it is still a form of private relief outside the state's public power. Although their behavior cannot be condemned in many cases. Private relief is itself an act of destroying the current legal order, so they are all guilty in law, of course, except for those who are given responsibilities by the state. From this point of view, when superheroes violate the law at will, not only the police, but also citizens must condemn and crack down on such behavior. The reason is that superheroes are citizens of this country. Regardless of whether they have superpowers or not, they enjoy the rights provided by the social contract and must obey the obligations of the law. The act of trampling on the law is to destroy social harmony and violate the social contract. In serious cases, it is an act that threatens social order and shakes the rule of the country. Most superheroes, when dealing with violence, mostly fight violence with violence. But fighting violence with violence is still violence and is also illegal. At the same time, due to the powerful superpowers of superheroes, the destructive power is very large, and it is also illegal to damage public facilities. Before the law punishes the bad guys, privately handling the matter and acting first and then reporting is also a crime. So all superheroes are guilty before the law.
Since they are criminals, the government certainly has the power to supervise them.
But sometimes the theory is one thing, and the actual operation is another.
First of all, monitoring these superhumans is different from monitoring ordinary people!
The power wielded by the two is simply not on the same order of magnitude.
Among them, Kai and Tony are the most troublesome!
Both of them are big capitalists, and this country is ultimately controlled by capitalists.
In the United States, you have heard of the government monitoring ordinary people and the president monitoring political opponents, but you rarely hear of the government monitoring big capitalists, right?
Here we need to clarify one issue, which is who actually controls the United States.
Of course, if we arbitrarily say that the United States is controlled by big capitalists, that is a bit too one-sided and too ridiculous. The United States is not controlled by a few people, but this statement is also not wrong.
A long time ago, we heard a rumor: The American president and his bureaucrats who are so powerful in the world are just puppets on the surface. The real manipulators behind the scenes are the capital groups, because the United States is the image spokesperson of Western capitalism. American capitalists control the policy behavior of the US government and become the real masters. Therefore, there is a saying in the United States that the American president cannot control the country, and the real control of the United States is actually the deep government.
As mentioned before, the United States is the country that loves war the most in the world. Because war allows the United States to plunder foreign resources and allows those financial groups and government officials to collude and make money. The most profitable organization among them is the US military-industrial complex. This mysterious organization is in the shape of a triangle, and each corner represents an interest group organization. They are the soldiers in the Pentagon, the capitalists of the US military-industrial enterprises, and the congressmen on Capitol Hill. The three sides of the triangle are the embodiment of the transfer of interests between these three organizations. The specific description is as follows: military-industrial enterprises provide political donations to those congressmen (capitalists are not suitable to directly come to power and engage in politics. In order to avoid suspicion, they generally look for agents among the political groups), and the congressmen are responsible for approving the annual budget funds to those soldiers, and then the generals of the Pentagon distribute the military procurement contracts to the bosses of those military-industrial enterprises. These three form an "iron triangle" relationship. Of course, there is also a "fourth corner" force that is also faintly flashing: they are the mainstream media in the United States (controlled by financial groups behind the scenes or pursuing profits). These media have enough mouthpiece power to advocate war every day and spread fear of the American people. They are specifically designed to ensure that the military-industrial complex achieves its profit goals.
This iron triangle organization has the following four methods to manipulate the US government.
First of all, money is the way. Money is omnipotent in the US Congress. Political donations are made specifically to lobby the Congress to make laws that are beneficial to the interests of military-industrial enterprises (it is absolutely impossible to use money for charity). According to some American academic research surveys, these bribery funds directly affect the legislation and election results in the US Congress. Then these funds affect the results of fiscal appropriations. In particular, those American consortiums occupy a dominant position in the US political landscape behind the scenes. These military-industrial enterprises and consortiums are the super-rich behind the US presidential election and congressional campaigns. American political campaigns require a lot of activity funds. Without money, you can't move forward at all. Therefore, various political activity funds are an important means for the US military-industrial complex to influence US foreign policy. According to the US media "Open Secrets" website, from the year when President Bush launched the war on terror to last year, the US military-industrial complex has bribed Congress up to about 23 billion US dollars! Of course, this money is not directly and blatantly given to those congressional masters as tributes. Instead, it is channeled through various shell companies in the name of various "consulting" fees or donations. After all, election campaigns require momentum, media publicity, and the advocacy of various "party thugs" in street politics. All of these require the power of money.
Lockheed Martin, Grumman, Boeing, General Dynamics and Raytheon, the five major arms giants, spent more than 14 million US dollars on public relations last year. But don't be naive to think that these military bosses are the big bosses behind the scenes. They are also controlled figures, and there are more powerful forces behind them. The real payers for these expenses are super consortiums. Mellon Consortium and Morgan Consortium are the ultimate bosses behind the scenes. On the eve of the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, the Brown University Research Institute in the United States showed according to a survey: Since the United States launched the war in Afghanistan, the total military expenditure of the United States has reached trillion US dollars, of which one-third or more than half has entered the pockets of American military enterprises. The lobbying expenses of the consortium have played an indispensable role in this. (Like all salesmen in the world, these consortiums sell themselves before selling their products. They must be generous in order to be proud to be friends with the dignitaries in Congress)
The military-industrial complex's partners are usually the various congressional committees related to national defense. The bosses of arms dealers provide 40% more money to the bigwigs who have a seat on these committees than ordinary members of Congress. The House Armed Services Committee receives the most red envelopes because it is responsible for the formulation of the annual National Defense Authorization Act. In addition, there are the House Defense Appropriations Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Senate Armed Services Committee. Mike Rogers is a Republican and he is also the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. This bigwig's good friends are the bosses of Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. Just like the TV series "Rome": the senator in the senator said that he liked to eat oysters; Caesar immediately arranged for his men to send red envelopes to the senator. The money of this Republican bigwig also comes from his two "good friends".
The wool comes from the sheep, and the capitalists need to get a return on their money: US military spending has begun to soar, and it has continued to increase every year. It is not enough to rely on domestic orders in the United States: Congress also needs to give the green light to foreign arms sales. Arms dealers and Gulf countries often pay lobbyists to ask the US government to sell arms to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other Gulf countries: orders are often hundreds of billions of dollars. Although these weapons will aggravate armed conflicts in Yemen, Syria, Libya and other regions, or seriously stimulate Iran's hostility. But how can arms dealers care about these things?
The United States is not controlled by one or two or a few capitalists, but by a group of interest groups!
If you touch any of these interest groups, it may cause a series of chain reactions!
Kai and Tony are unfortunately part of these interest groups. They are not the only ones. In fact, both Kai and Tony have a large number of supporters behind them. You know, the Stark Group and the Wayne Foundation donate more than 10 billion in political donations every year. You can see that there are always people donating large sums of money in every election.
The Stark Group and the Wayne Consortium do not have just one donor. In fact, every state and congress, their public relations departments will donate large sums of money every time there is an election! In addition, there are so-called lobbying groups!
This is a pure trade of power for money!
How many gentlemen make a living by relying on these legal political donations!
Move them?
Isn't that like the old man eating arsenic and seeking death?
The situation of the so-called "super humans" is somewhat similar. They are not just one or two, but a whole group. Once a problem occurs, riots will break out in minutes.
So the federal government is very cautious on this issue.
As for Kai and Tony, there is really no surveillance.
What's more, they themselves are not so easy to monitor and control.
It’s actually really hard for the White House to know what Kay is doing.
"Now! Find him immediately! Let him deal with that weird thing above our heads!!! Otherwise, the whole Washington will be gone tomorrow!!!"
Benjamin is really anxious!
There's nothing you can do. Anyone who has such a slap in the face that keeps changing will be terrified.
Benjamin cannot leave Washington yet; this is his pride as president.
In fact, the moment the change occurred, the White House Secret Service immediately planned to transfer the president.
There is a small station underground in the White House.
Among them is the US President’s special train number one!
People know relatively more about the U.S. President's motorcade, Marine One, and Air Force One, but know very little about Special Train One.
In fact, this thing has a much longer history than the motorcade and Air Force One!
Trains have long been a fixture in presidential campaigns, and presidents have been traveling around the country on trains for nearly a century. The first presidential candidate to use trains for his campaign was Henry Harrison. In 1841, as president-elect, Harrison became the first president to ride a train to his inauguration. Twenty years later, President Lincoln set a new standard for the use of railroads in the White House. From the time he was elected president, Lincoln used trains to solidify support for his policies and to reach out directly to the American people and soldiers. In 20, Roosevelt used trains extensively for his campaign. His frequent train, Train No. 1933, came to prominence during World War II. Built in 1928 by the Prumann Company, the train was originally named Ferdinand Magellan. It consisted of six railroad cars. Built by the United States, the train was refurbished and refitted in 1941 as a wartime presidential train, after which it became the largest railroad car ever built in the United States, weighing 285 pounds. During the conversion, 000/5-inch steel plates were installed on its roof, sides, and floor, and 8-inch bulletproof glass windows were installed for standard windows. Two escape pods were also installed. It was a mobile security fortress that reflected the security strategy of the time. The converted U.S. Presidential Train No. 3 has a presidential suite, two guest rooms, a restaurant that also serves as a meeting room, and a viewing room that Roosevelt and his staff could use on long trips. It was also very luxurious and had telephones in most rooms, which was unheard of at the time.
The communications car of the Presidential Train No. 1 is equipped with incredibly high-tech radio equipment so that the President can stay in touch at all times.
In modern times, this thing has become more covert and high-tech!
The entire journey is underground, and you can get directly from Washington to the nearest air force base! It is very hidden, and its carriages can even withstand nuclear explosions.
But Benjamin just refused to leave!