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                Date: 2001-11-12
                 
                 
                Ausnahme/zustand United Kingdom
                
                 
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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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