Sweden goes Fascist

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http://www.thelocal.se/1253 4/20080618/

Swedish lawmakers voted late on Wednesday in favour of a controversial bill allowing all emails and phone calls to be monitored in the name of national security.

The vote, one of the most divisive in Sweden in recent years, had initially been scheduled for early Wednesday but was postponed after more than one-third of MPs voted to send the bill back to parliament's defence committee "for further preparation."

After the committee required that the centre-right government safeguard individual rights further in an annex to the law to be voted on in the autumn, the bill narrowly passed with 143 votes in favour, 138 opposed and one parliamentarian abstaining.

Critics have slammed the proposal as an attack on civil liberties that would create a "big brother" state, while supporters say it is necessary to protect the country from foreign threats.

The new law, set to take effect on January 1st, 2009, will enable the National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) -- a civilian agency despite its name -- to tap all cross-border Internet and telephone communication.

But although the government said only cross-border communications would be monitored, all communications risk getting caught in the net since some internet servers are located abroad and FRA would need to check all emails to determine whether they have crossed the border. Under the current law, FRA is only allowed to monitor military radio communications.

http://technology.timesonli ne.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_ web/article4150152.ece

Sweeping new powers under which the Swedish security services can monitor private phone calls, e-mails and text messages are expected to come into force this week under legislation that has prompted outrage in the country.

Politicians, businesses, privacy campaigners and individual citizens have lined up to criticise the proposed law, which the Swedish Parliament will vote on tomorrow.

The Bill would grant the country’s intelligence agencies access to cross-border e-mails, phone calls, text messages and faxes, and empower them to monitor websites visited by Swedish citizens.

Since Scandinavia's telephone network often routes local phone calls through exchanges in neighbouring countries, internet data and calls passing through Sweden on its way between two other countries would also fall within the jurisdiction of the new law.

Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's leading quality newspaper, compared it with the powers of the Stasi secret police in the former East Germany, and Google said that it would stay out of Sweden if the law is passed.

"We have made it clear to the Swedish authorities that we will never place any Google servers in Sweden if this proposition becomes reality,” Peter Fleischer, a Google spokesman, said. “This proposal seems like something invented by Saudi Arabia and China. It has no place in a Western democracy.”
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Europe's Version of Gitmo (none / 0)
I'm beggining to get concerned on Europe's sway to the right.

Yesterday the European Union approved a resolution that has created two types of humans:

Those with rights, persons that cannot be detained if they haven't commited a crime

Those without rights even though they haven't commited a crime. Europe now says that an Illegal Inmigrant can be detained up to 18 months for no reason. Please remember being an Illegal Inmigrant in Europe IS NOT A CRIME.
http://www.iht.com/articles /2008/06/18/europe/migrant. php

I am very dissapointed with my representatives in Europe, specially the Socialist Group for voting for this measure. Their absurd rational is that in order to give migrants some rights in countries that didn't have them before, it is ok to take away rights in countries where they did have them. (In Spain the maximum detention allowed was 30 days).

And to take matters further, the EU is seriously considering a 60 Hour Work Week!! That would be 10 hours a day Monday to Saturday or 12 hour aday Monday to Friday!!.

All of sudden Europe wants to approve labour laws that are closer to the XIX century then to the XXI. 200 years of labour struggles and Trade Unions down the drain.

I really confide that the Trade Unions and countries like Spain, Belgium, Greece, Cyprus and Hungary will not allow this foolishnes to go on.

http://www.ecosy.org/STOP_6 0_HOURS_WORKING_WEEK.452.0. html

We can clearly see how facist Berlusconi, NeoCon Sarkozy, Moderate Right Merkel and weak lefty Brown is starting to have an influence in European Politics!

 

by JaimeH on 06/19/2008 11:13:47 AM EST

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