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Date: 2001-10-17
FR: Anti-Terror gegen das Netz
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Während sich französische Big Brother Awards Aktivisten mit
Unterstützung von Privacy International gegen so genannte "Anti-
Terror-Pakete" wehren, gibt es von anderswo gute News. In Holland
sind die ersten Big Brother Awards für Februar 2001 fixiert,
während Spanien und Dänemark kurz vor dem Durchbruch stehen .
Post/scrypt aus der Das_muss_einmal_gesagt_werden_Abteilung:
Über die internationale Liste der Awards Veranstalter fegt seit mehr
als einem Jahr ein kommunikativer Wirbelwind aus AT-Land, der
rundum moderate und bescheidene und hocheffiziente Peter Kuhm.
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Find here the english version of a recent campaign - where PI and
BBA French folks participated - to alert MPs about the new
antiterrorism laws discussed today in the French Senate (the
Assembly will discuss the bill October 31).
Of course, fwd this to anyone you think useful.
Regards, jerome
Open letter to the French Parliament
http://www.lsijolie.net/article.php3?id_article=68
The war fever caused by the tragedy of September 11 is leading to
the adoption of hastily prepared anti-terrorist laws, which are being
denounced by defenders of human rights and liberties in the United
States, England, Germany, France and other countries. In France,
in order "to fight terrorism," the government is weighing a series of
exceptional security amendements -- part of the "Loi Securite
Quotidienne" ("Day-to-day Security Law") -- that would totally
infringe upon the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
The signatories to this open letter are concerned about "the
defense of democracy in the face of terrorism." They are worried by
the proposed amendements' senseless, inefficient and intrusive
attacks upon individual and collective liberties. The signatories fear
that the imperative of security will be used as the pretext for the
passage of amendments that have long been opposed by
associations that defend human rights and individual liberties.
Allowing magistrates unlimited discretion to issue search warrants
for vehicles and homes; allowing private security guards to perform
searches of bags and bodies without any judicial review; permitting
cross-examinations and other legal confrontations to take place at
a distance; permitting telephone and Internet communication data,
including encrypted data, to be accessed and surveilled; removing
judicial control of decryption "defense" procedures; violating the
rights to anonymous and private personal communications -- these
proposed changes would leave the field open to arbitrary and
discriminatory practices, not the fair and just application of the law.
The signatories of this open letter want to bring to the attention of
their political representatives the dangers of placing into one
category terrorism, immigration, civil protest, political opposition
and petty crimes, and the dangers of allowing the proposed
measures to be abused and utilized for ends other than the fight
against terrorism.
Therefore, the signatories urge the members of Parliament to:
- oppose inefficient emergency measures that are offered without
genuine parliamentary debate and without the implications of these
measures being clearly understood by the public;
- oppose any measures or laws that extend the investigatory
powers of law enforcement authorities for indefinite periods of time;
- oppose procedures that retroactively extend the investigatory
powers of law enforcement authorities;
- insure that magistrates keep under the strictest control all
measures that might infringe upon individual and collective liberties,
such as the physical and moral integrity of individuals, freedom of
opinion, the right to anonymity, and the right of privacy in all
postal,telephonic and electronic communications.
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edited by Harkank
published on: 2001-10-17
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