France, Alternative Libertaire AL - political, Intelligence Act: A Patriot Act to French (fr, it, pt)

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - political,
Intelligence Act: A Patriot Act to French (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]

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 referred to the draconian measures taken 
by the US government after the September 11, 2001, under the guise of "national unity" and 
the name of the fight against terrorism. ---- Provided the 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 at the 
population level by implementing various features of "massive uptake data."

Internet and private operators (suppliers or search engines) will detect and report on 
application of the intelligence services, "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 usually 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 legalization will amplify flicage practices.

And 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 
that were theoretically under the control of a judge will be possible on simple 
administrative decision.

The fact of creating yet another control committee - by national security interceptions 
Control Commission (CNCIS) - is little illusion and will be used primarily to resettle 
some bolos in need of folding seats.

Authoritarian law

This law is a political act that is intended to allow the ruling classes to increase the 
policing of social disorder. Recall that in the US the vast majority of so-called 
anti-terrorism provisions were used for other reasons. Over 11,129 requests for searches 
related to the device, only 51 were related to terrorism, the majority related to drug 
trafficking.

A political law

This political dimension of the new law is especially revealed in that it expands the 
legal grounds for monitoring of individuals: the grounds as those of the "prevention of 
terrorism" of "organized crime", she adds the grounds for "essential foreign policy 
interests" or that of "collective violence capable of endangering the public peace." A set 
of terms portmanteau 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. Safe 
technological arsenal that virtue to punish, 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#
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Loi-sur-le-renseignement-Un