EU Intends to Punish People Searching for “Terrorism”
Jens Meiert, September 27, 2007 / February 25, 2008.
This entry is filed under Politics.
The European Commission apparently plans to control search for terms like “bomb”, “genocide”, and “terrorism”, according to German news sources like ZDF and Heise citing delegate Alexander Alvaro.
The list presented by Heise currently refers to the German words “Bombe”, “töten”, “Völkermord”, and “Terrorismus”, thus including the equivalent to “to kill” as well.
Current coverage goes on to say that people looking for information on the above terms should be staked out, effectively making them terror suspects. While this specific plan doesn’t seem to have passed yet, it is seen as a part of the European Union’s “Anti Terror Program” that is apparently heavily supported by the vice president of the European Commission, Franco Frattini.
This development really worries me, and it certainly doesn’t ease the anger I already expressed; instead, it makes me care even more:
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How does a search for a usually harmless word make somebody a terrorist? Are the ZDF, Heise, and other reporters now terrorists, too; me, you?
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How does control (and censorship) actually prevent terrorism? Really, how?
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Are criminal resources tagged “terrorism”, “bomb”, and stuff? If yes, shouldn’t it be quite easy to stop those apparently brainless people then, without throwing essential rights overboard?
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Isn’t it yet such actionism that should be controled? Aren’t the EU delegates responsible for citizen rights, too? Don’t they yet jeopardize these rights!?
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How long will it take until there’s such a strong industry behind the growing surveillance monster that there’s no turning back anymore? (Like many Europeans judge the US arms industry as so strong that, though certainly linked to the history of America, there’ll never be such a situation as in Europe where the absolute minority of people owns more than a kitchen knife.)
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Instead, how “terrorist” is “absolute surveillance”? Do some people believe that this “terrorism from inside” neutralizes the “terrorism from outside” one day, anyway …?
Orwell must be really proud of us, the “2014” reality show will make “1984” look like a pale bootleg. “Terror fighters”, you’re great, we will all feel safe, and thus we should probably yet expand Schäuble’s idea of online monitoring, panic even more people by talking about the danger of nuclear attacks, and also back up Jung’s attempt to shoot down hijacked airplanes.
Please, wake me up. Before we’re all treated like terrorists, before the love for freedom doesn’t count anymore.
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Comments
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On September 27, 2007, 17:30 CEST, Dennis said:
Politicians are sooo strange and they seem to get stranger every day… this is so ridiculous.
All your bomb are belong to us…
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On September 27, 2007, 17:34 CEST, Dennis said:
omg, I just found this list of (german) quotes made by politicians about the internet, which confirms my assumption, that they seem to lack any knowledge…
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On September 28, 2007, 11:30 CEST, Jens Meiert said:
Awesome and awful at the same time (though there are one or two cites being exactly true); thank you, Dennis! It’s really just incredible that people not even being able to “use” the web try to rule it. Where’s this heading …
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On October 7, 2007, 15:26 CEST, Dramenbnejs said:
Luckily, to ban the searches is so idiotic and unrealistic idea, that it could never be implemented.
The sole purpose of it is to hide wrongdoings of US Army, IDF and similar genociders, and to have universal excuse to lock people up and torture them if they meddle e.g. with Israeli politics, but it is impossible to implement such a thing.
The European people are too much educated and informed, for falling prey to this totalitarian practice.
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On October 7, 2007, 20:15 CEST, Jens Meiert said:
The European people are too much educated and informed, for falling prey to this totalitarian practice.
Hopefully … But that should apply to Americans as well, doesn’t it?
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On November 12, 2007, 20:30 CET, Lynne said:
Wow… that’s just plain asinine. So a college kid who is doing a term paper on terrorism would become a suspect based upon his research? Wow… what a waste of money and resources…
