France, Alternative Libertaire AL #250 - political,
Intelligence Act: A Patriot Act to French (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
After the murders of January 2015 the government plans to pass a new emergency
anti-terrorism law. This is a serious infringement of civil liberties in the context of
systematic political repression. ---- The Law on Intelligence currently under discussion
is the 18th anti-terrorism law since 1986 and follows a previous law passed in the fall of
2014. The term Patriot Act mobilized in the media refers to the draconian measures adopted
by the US government after the September 11, 2001, under the guise of "national unity" and
in the name of the fight against terrorism. ---- However this new law is far from
consensus and many associations and unions denounce a further decline in civil liberties.
---- Draconian law ---- A key aspect of this law is to first massify police intelligence
across the population by introducing various features of "mass uptake data."
So the Internet private operators (suppliers or search engines) will detect and report on
application intelligence, "suspicious estates connection."
Another example is the use of "false-relay antennas" to siphon data from phones and
computers in a given area will be legalized.
This law legalizes certain practices commonly performed illegally by police. This is a key
element of government communications on this law: "By legalizing it allows control of
these practices. "But in reality this will amplify the legalization flicage practices.
Thus the installation of spyware, installing camera or microphone in private places or
installing GPS tags on a vehicle will be facilitated especially as most of these practices
were in theory subject to the control of a judge will be possible through a simple
administrative decision.
The fact of creating yet another oversight committee - by national security interceptions
Control Commission (CNCIS) - is little illusion and serve mainly to resettle some bolos
short of folding seats.
An authoritative law
This law is a political act which aims to allow the ruling classes to increase the
policing of social disorders. Recall that in the US the vast majority of so-called
anti-terrorism provisions were used for other reasons. About 11,129 requests for searches
related to the device, only 51 were related to terrorism, the majority being related to
drug trafficking.
A political law
This political dimension of the new law is especially revealed in that it broadens the
legal grounds for monitoring of individuals: the grounds as those of "prevention of
terrorism", of "organized crime", she adds the grounds for "essential foreign policy
interests" or that of "collective violence capable of endangering public peace." A set of
terms-suitcases in which the intelligence services will be able to enter any individual or
behavior.
It is in this dimension that the law is inscribed. For several months, a wave of crackdown
on social movements: prohibition and violent repression of demonstrations, public
meetings, union actions, development of police and authoritarian measures (see box).
This law adds a piece to the building. That of a ruling class losing legitimacy. The
technological arsenal was safe under this punishment, to monitor the most secret manner.
It is in this sense that the mobilization against the law must be part of a general
campaign against violations of civil liberties.
Tristan (AL Toulouse)
Photo from the film The Lives of Others .
http://www.senscritique.com/film/La_Vie_des_autres/472445#
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