German anti-terror laws – it’s getting silly now!

admin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:11:10 +0000

Today the German Cabinet passed a law that allows federal police to observe private computers and living space using illegal tools – no judical resolution required. This is against the German Constitution (Grundgesetz) but nevertheless they finally decided to restrain our right, just to protect us. This really reminds of American conditions, where people already live under a general suspicion. Now it seems, we finally made it too. All telecomunication data is store for at least 6 months to track and record what people do.
This is, at the moment, only a counterterrorism act, but experience shows, once you have a tool like that, you slightly change the wording from “terrorist” to “criminal” and “threat” to “delict” … and here we go, a tool to track every filesharer .

Sorry folks, but this is not the right way (well, it is the right-wing way). You can’t protect civil rights by resticting and anulling them. As far as I can see, all that does is to give the impression, the illusion of safety combined with a loss of trust and credit of our officials and it will spread fear and suspiciousness. But it won’t prevent a single terrorist attack.

However, (that’s what they say) it might at least help to resolve them! But this is something most post-terror-attack investigations never had problem with. In most cases these people are proud of they do, they don’t try to stay anonimous and the actual perpetrator is, most likely, still at the scene … in parts probaly unable to become a repeater.

All together only a clear way to undermine freedom and democracy. This is doing more damage to our society than every possible attack could. See you in 1984.

Extremism-Check as an acceptance-test

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:38:41 +0000

Some students at all Universities in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) now have to fill in a questionnaire asking for their relation to terrorism, Al-Qaida and fundamentalism. A decree forces Unis now to ask their ‘Muslim’ students to do that. Apart from the fact that only students with an islamic background are forced to do that (well they are not forced, this is a voluntary thing, but mandatory to get a stay permit), which makes the whole undertaking discriminatory to the core, does the Ministry of the Interior really think, they tick the YES-box behind the question: ‘Are you a member of terrorist organisation?’?
Just because the form says ‘answer truthfully!’? Are these people kidding? They threaten these people with severe consequences in case of dishonesty. Really? Think about the dilemma: If they say ‘yes’ they go to prison, if they say ‘no’ and police knows better, they go to prison. But if police knows better, why bother asking them in the first place? What a waste of paper!

This is the best example that red tape has won. What is the whole thing good for? I tell you: In 2001 a few of the 9/11-Pilots came from Germany, they have been students at German Unis. A lot of questions where asked afterwards about why we didn’t notice it before. Now, government can say: Oh we asked them but they lied! It’s not our fault. We tried to identify them, but surprisingly they didn’t cooperate.

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German anti-terror laws – it’s getting silly now!

Extremism-Check as an acceptance-test