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 Laut Observer werden britische Sozialdemokraten die europäische
 Menschenrechtscharta im UK teilweise ausser Kraft setzen.
 In den Dreißiger Jahren gab es den Begriff  "Sozialfaschismus."
 Sein Inhalt: Im Grunde seien Sozialdemokraten die besseren, weil
 effektiveren Faschisten. Glaubwürdigkeit: Nicht so besonders hoch,
 weil er von Seiten der Stalinistischen KPs kam.
 
 Was heute ist steht hier:
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 Britain placed under state of emergency
 
 · Rights law scrapped for internment
 
 Kamal Ahmed, Antony Barnett and Martin Bright Sunday
 November 11, 2001 The Observer
 
 Britain is to be placed under a state of 'public emergency' as part of
 an unprecedented government move to allow internment without
 trial of suspected terrorists.
 
 In a historic initiative that will incense civil liberties groups, David
 Blunkett, the Home Secretary, will lay the order before the House
 of Commons in the next 48 hours, to be followed by anti-terrorist
 legislation which will be rushed through in the next four weeks.
 
 The order, which says the events of 11 September are 'threatening
 the life of the nation', will allow Britain to opt out of Article 5 of the
 European Convention on Human Rights, which bans detention
 without trial.
 
 It will pave the way for indefinite imprisonment of foreign nationals
 who the Government suspects are terrorists, and comes less than
 24 hours after warnings from America that Britain is a top target for
 Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network.
 
 The move reveals the seriousness the Government places on the
 threat to Britain. Such orders can be used only in times of war or
 when there has been an event that puts the security of the nation
 at risk. Whitehall sources said the order would not be reviewed 'for
 at least a year'.
 
 Internment was last used during the Gulf war against Iraqis
 suspected of links to Saddam Hussein's army. It has also been
 used against terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland and Germans
 during the Second World War. It is the first time the Government
 has sought such a major opt-out of the Convention, which is the
 cornerstone of human rights laws in the country.
 
 John Wadham, director of Liberty, said it would seek to challenge
 the order in the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. 'This is a
 fundamental violation of the rule of law, our rights and traditional
 British values,' he said. 'There is no evidence of direct plans to
 commit atrocities against Britain.'
 
 Government officials insisted this was a 'formal procedure' and did
 not signal a change in the level of risk to the country, but said the
 police needed more powers to detain suspected terrorists.
 
 'Britain is closed to terrorism, and we will take whatever action we
 can,' the Prime Minister's official spokesman said. 'People will
 object to it, but we are absolutely determined to get the balance
 right between human rights, which are important, and society's
 right to live free from terror.'
 
 Downing Street believes that the public will back the moves, which
 it says are necessary to maintain national security. Intelligence
 reports suggest a number of terrorists linked to extremist Middle
 Eastern organisations have attempted to enter the country using
 the cloak of asylum laws.
 
 The official spokesman said a handful of people would be targeted
 by the new laws and they would be offered the opportunity to travel
 to a third country if it could be arranged.
 
 Even suspects who attempt to travel through British airports can be
 detained if the new terrorism laws are passed.
 
 The Government plans to rush the legislation through both Houses
 of Parliament by Christmas and is hoping for cross-party support.
 
 The public emergency order will be the first of a series of
 controversial measures closing what the Government says are
 loopholes in the law. As well as internment, the terrorism Bill will
 contain new laws to tackle religious hatred and harsh sentences for
 people behind 'non-bomb' hoaxes, such as anthrax scares.
 
 It will also contain new measures against money- laundering and a
 crackdown on bureaux de change, which are often used to move
 terrorists' assets, and will order banks to scrutinise and report on
 any suspicious transactions.
 
 New bills on fast-track extradition laws and asylum reform are not
 now expected until the new year.
 
 *The Home Office is also planning to seize passports from British
 Muslims who are planning to travel abroad to fight for the Taliban or
 Osama bin Laden.
 
 Home Office Minister Angela Eagle has confirmed she will give
 'serious consideration' to powers at present used against football
 hooligans trying to travel abroad.
 
 The law allows action against 'a person whose past or proposed
 activities are so demonstrably undesirable that the grant or
 continued enjoyment of passport facilities would be contrary to the
 public interest'.
 
 Andrew Dismore, Labour MP for Hendon, said he would now pass
 a list of names to Eagle of people who had expressed a desire to
 travel abroad to fight for the Taliban. 'It is clear that if any British
 Muslim says he wants to travel to Afghanistan to try to kill British
 or US soldiers, then that is clearly against the public interest and
 his passport should be removed,' Dismore said.
 
 Source
 http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,591394,00.html
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 published on: 2001-11-12
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