Oxford Law Prof alarmed at "police’s Mossad-style execution" of innocent ’suspect’

Bellacio | July 27 2005

John Gardner is the Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, and occasional Visiting Professor at Yale Law School.

Police state: Like many of my fellow-Londoners I am less alarmed by suicide bombers than I am by the police’s Mossad-style execution of a ’suspect’ (who turned out to be a completely innocent passer-by) on Friday 22 July. This is not because we are at greater risk of death at the hands of the police than at the hands of the bombers. (Both risks are pretty tiny, but of the two the risk posed by the police is clearly smaller). Rather, it is because, all else being equal, it is worse to be killed by one’s friends than by one’s enemies, and worse to be killed by people in authority than by people not in authority.

Here are some other important things to remember in thinking about the police actions of 22 July:

(1) There is no general legal duty to assist the police or to obey police instructions. Rice v Connolly [1966] 2 QB 414.

(2) There are special police powers to arrest and search. But there is no special police licence to injure or kill. If they injure or kill, the police need to rely on the same law as the rest of us.

(3) The law allows those who use force in prevention of crime to use only necessary and proportionate force. Jack Straw and Sir Ian Blair say that officers are under great pressure. But this is no excuse. In law, as in morality, being under extra pressure gives us no extra latitude for error in judging how much force is proportionate or necessary. R v Clegg [1995] 1 A.C. 482.

(4) Arguably, the police should be held to higher standards of calm under pressure than the rest of us. Certainly not lower!

(5) The necessity and proportionality of the police use of force is to be judged on the facts as they believed them to be: R v Williams 78 Cr. App R 276. This does create latitude for factual error. In my view it creates too much latitude. The test should be reasonable belief. The police may be prejudiced like the rest of us, and may treat the fact that someone is dark-skinned as one reason to believe that he is a suicide bomber. But in court this reason should not count.

(6) It is no defence in law that the killing was authorised by a superior officer. A superior officer who authorises an unlawful killing is an accomplice. R v Clegg [1995] 1 A.C. 482.

(7) The fact that those involved were police officers is irrelevant to the question of whether to prosecute them. It is a basic requirement of the Rule of Law that, when suspected of crimes, officials are subject to the same policies and procedures as the rest of us.

(8) Some people say: Blame the terrorists, not the police. But blame is not a zero-sum game. The fact that one is responding to faulty actions doesn’t mean one is incapable of being at fault oneself. We may blame Tony Blair for helping to create the conditions in which bombing appeals to people, without subtracting any blame from the bombers. We may also blame the bombers for creating the conditions in which the police act under pressure, without subtracting blame from the police if they overreact. Everyone is responsible for their own faulty actions, never mind the contribution of others. This is the moral position as well as the position in criminal law.

Proposed new anti-terrorist offences: The one that has been variously labelled as ’condoning’ or ’glorifying’ or ’indirectly inciting’ terrorism gives cause for concern. It is already an offence to incite another person to commit an act of terrorism (Terrorism Act 2000 s59). In which respects, we may wonder, is the scope of this offence to be extended? The word ’indirect’ suggests that they mean to catch those who incite the s59 inciter. But under general doctrines of English criminal law it is already an offence to incite the s59 inciter. So one suspects some other extension of the existing offence is being cooked up. Is the plan to criminalise the mere defence or endorsement of a terrorist act? If so we are in for trouble. Terrorism in English law is defined to cover all modes of political violence, however trifling. Are academics and commentators no longer to be permitted to defend any political violence? Is Ted Honderich’s Violence for Equality, or Peter Singer’s Democracy and Disobedience, to be put on the banned books list? The only thing protecting these books at the moment is that, in the eyes of the law, an argued endorsement is not an incitement. The thought that the government may be thinking of changing this should send a shiver down the spine of anyone who still has a spine (damn few).

Lord Hoffman in A v Home Secretary [2005] 2 WLR 87: ’The real threat to the life of the nation ... comes not from terrorism but from laws like these.’ Quite right. Some extra risk of being blown up by fanatics on the way to work is one of the prices we pay for living in a free society. Let’s make sure we keep it that way.

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/july2005/270705profalarmed.htm

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http://www.hijackingcatastrophe.org/

NFO:
For those of you who had the misfortune of watching Fahrenheit 9/11 or the even more horrendous Fahrenhype 9/11, here is a film to hopefully restore your faith in high quality documentary filmmaking. No shenanigans or Jerry Springerish bullshit here!

Perhaps I am being a bit hard on Michael Moore, but I have to say I was thoroughly unimpressed with F911. Too much of the time while watching F911, I was either cringing or thinking "so what?". There are, for instance, perfectly good reasons why rich Saudis would fly out of the country in the wake of the disaster, and why President Bush wouldn't want to rush out of the classroom as soon as he learned that the second tower had been hit. Moreover, these two incidents, which Moore makes a big deal of in his film, don't really lead anywhere...Moore makes no conclusions. Really, what is the point of following this kind of conspiracy theorist approach?

I could go on and on pointing out flaws and holes in F911, but I won't. On the other hand, I really haven't been able find any weaknesses in "Hijacking Catastrophe"...it is quite matter-of-fact, and sticks to the more enlightening and important issues. It does this without any cheesy stunts, and yet the pacing is so fast that it keeps the viewer enthralled.

Even though many people, myself included, like to compare this film to F911, there really is not that much overlap in content between the two, since they take such different approaches and directions.

My encode is from the original DVD, and it will play on the Philips 642, which means it will play on just about anything. It looks pretty good, and is much better than the VCD version, which, as far as I can tell, is the only other version floating around in Fileshare Land.

Resolution: 576x336
Bitrate: 880
Framerate: 29.97
Audio: 192 Kbps MP3
Size: 541 MB

Finally, you don't have to take just my word...
Here are the reviews from others, taken from www.imdb.com.

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For those of us who agree with many of Michael Moore's views but despise his irresponsible tactics, "Fahrenheit 9/11" was a horrifying movie for all the wrong reasons. Happily, Moore's brand of intellectual con artistry is entirely absent from Earp and Jhally's "Hijacking Catastrophe," which is quietly matter-of-fact and all the more compelling as a result. No fraudulent newspaper clippings, deceptive editing, histrionic bombast, or grossly misleading innuendos are to be found here; just a bunch of intelligent, articulate people making some devastating points. The film is tightly edited and fascinating throughout.


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"Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire" is a riveting documentary that should not be missed. It sheds much needed light on shocking use of the tragedies of September 11th 2001 by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others in the George W. Bush administration as a tool to implement their terrifying neo-conservative agenda. Unlike the excellent but obviously biased "Fahrenheit 9/11," this film avoids cheap shots at the subjects and focuses on the facts. The information unearthed in this documentary is so damning that spit-laden combs and eerie off camera presidential preening would be a waste of valuable seconds. This film is unfortunately short at 60 minutes in length but with commentary from such titans of intellectual thought as Norman Mailer and Noam Chomsky, the film uses each of these minutes to gripping avail.

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Wow! Just watched this movie last night, and I didn't sleep well at all. I saw Fahrenheit 9-11 and found it to be entertaining, but too biased to be taken seriously. This movie, however, gave me chills and I am already quite familiar with the material discussed. It is an hour well spent and goes a long way toward educating the average American about NeoConservative views and how they have now become the dominant force in American politics. This movie is a MUST SEE if you ever care to truly understand why we are in Iraq and Afghanistan and why we're not leaving (so long as Bush and the NeoCons are in power anyway)!

The main difference between this movie and the others which have tried to target the Bush Administration so fiercely is that this one actually shows the extreme economic costs of waging continuous wars with those we don't agree with, and leaves it mostly to the viewer to decide whether never-ending war and American Imperialism is the correct course to take with so many other pervasive domestic problems of our own to deal with (not to mention the myriad of social and political costs).

Invite your friends, family and neighbors to watch this movie with you because this is the true debate Americans should be having and not whether some rich kid did his duty in 'Nam thirty years ago. Enjoy!

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Granted, this film is not as "glitzy" as Michael Moore's, and it isn't as in-your-face. However, that doesn't not take away from it's message, and some may argue it enhances it.

While Fahrenheit dealt more with Bush's hypocrisy and both his dealings and benefits financially with the Arab world, Hijacking Catastrophe widens the camera, focusing on "Neo-Conservative" chickenhawks of the Republican party (Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheyney, etc.) and illustrates how their right-wing foreign policies, schemed since the post cold-war early 80's, have been systematically put into place since 9/11.

A brilliant film. Impressive list of world-renowned thinkers, ex-military, and political activists weigh-in on the topic. The film ends leaving the viewer with some scary conclusions on how the Bush Government and the Republican Party view it's place in the world, and furthermore, how they see the world as something to be conquered.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

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I just saw Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire today and was most impressed with the objectivity, the detail and complete examination of the facts. Obviously in the title you understand it has an opinion and it finds and examines evidence to make its point. It does so, however, leaving the viewer with enough information to form their own opinion: Masterful documentary film making at its finest. It is shame that most Americans won't see this film before your Presidential election. If so I doubt you would re-elect your current President and might in fact have him, and Rumsfeld et al, charged with high treason, which would be justified IMHO.

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This movie is more dispassionate than F9/11. With interviews by the usual suspects of "Left" oriented politics (to those who have watched a lot of documentaries), with a spattering of retired military members, it paints a picture of the present President as starting us from hegemony to Empire.

Overall, it uses more conventional documentary techniques and less personal invective to make it's claims. The conclusion is that when no one is left standing, who will pay for the current debts?

On the lighter side, I could not keep my eyes off the screen when Norman Mailer was interviewed. It was not watching him, rather in the background was a huge a Lego project that was either a castle, or futuristic spaceport.

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9/11 The Great Illusion by George Humphrey
This documentary is the film version of the book "9/11: The Great illusion", also by George Humphrey
60 objective facts, worthy questions and valuable insights that will make even the skeptics realize that 9/11 was orchestrated and carried out by the Power Elite within our own Government.

London 7/7 Attack: Creating the Enemy

by Ghali Hassan

July 14, 2005
GlobalResearch.ca

Instead of saying; it is too early to say who is responsible for the 7/7 London bombing, Tony Blair immediately accused Muslims and Islam of the crimes. No evidence, no names and no documentation were provided to support his accusations. This happened despite the fact that all Muslim nations have strongly condemned the attacks on innocent people. They do so, Blair said, because they "hate our way of life" and "our values". Why these ‘Muslim terrorists’ chose Britain of Blair not Switzerland or Sweden? The word why has simply disappeared from the language of both politicians and the media.

Western media, pundits and commentators were quick to jump on the Blair-Bush bandwagon and continue to amplify and encourage this anti-Muslim prejudice. To blindly accuse Muslims and Islam of violence is to ignore the real purveyors of today’s violence and terrorism in the world. Do few individuals represent the whole faith of Islam or Christianity?

Those responsible ‘have no respect for human life’, Blair said. Do those who participated in the barbaric "Shock and Awe" bombings of Baghdad and in the destruction of Iraqi towns and cities have respect for human life? What kind of terrorists has the capacity to perpetuate the criminal atrocity inflicted on the Iraqi people? Baghdad was the heart of the Muslim world and cultural capital of Islam for more than seven centuries.

Since March 2003, there has been a London bombing in Baghdad every day. The holly cities of Najef and Fallujah have been destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children have been murdered. Tens of thousands of Iraqis are imprisoned, and tortured every day. The whole fabric of the Iraqi society has been deliberately decimated. Why?

The British public were told that the London bombing bears "all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda attacks". Even if the ‘terrorists’ are ‘white’, the British daily, The Independent, insured its readers, the ‘terrorists’ have to be "’mercenary terrorists’ hired by al-Qaeda to carry out these attacks". Al-Qaeda is now the West’s label for everything Muslim.

What is al-Qaeda? Al-Qaida (the ‘Base’ in Arabic) was the CIA sponsored training camp for the Afghan Mujahideen, including Osama bin Laden and his fighters. The group was created and financed by the US administration against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. They were called "freedom fighters" by former US president Reagan. In fact after meeting a group of bearded Mujahideen in the White House, the former president said: "These are the moral equivalent of America’s founding fathers". So, not long ago Mr Bin Laden and his men were the equivalent of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.

Al-Qaeda has become a convenient phantom to justify an ongoing war. The continuing existence of al-Qaeda is a very useful pretext for the Blair-Bush axis and allies. It provides the necessary tool to create fear and manipulate public opinion.

The 7/7 London bombing was next to impossible to conduct in the middle of high security without the intelligence and coordination of important people in Britain. Like the 9/11 attacks, the 7/7 London bombing remains a mystery, and the crimes against innocent people will provide Blair’s government with enough pretexts to:

(1) justify the introduction of unpopular new British identity card;
(2) implement intrusive surveillance and policing of Muslims and the Muslim community;
(3) introduce new draconian legislations that will curtail freedom, civil liberties, and limits dissent, such as protest;
(4) continue to support Bush’s war of terror against defenceless nations; and
(5) divert public attention from the "pre-emptive" terrorism and the war crimes committed against the Iraqi people.

Throughout the Cold War, which was a pretext for state of fear, Western secret agents and NATO collaborated in attacks against civilian targets, which they then blamed on left-wing groups in order to create panic and force the public to turn to governments for more security and protection. One of these right-wing groups, implicated in attacks on civilians, was code-name Gladio. The existence of this group only became known in Italy in the 1990s and the Italian Senate, amid public protests, had to close it down, because it 'was beyond democratic control'. In other words, the lies became too big to hide from the public. (Cited in 'Secret Warfare: Gladio', by Daniele Ganser). Criminals are not difficult to find to instil fear and panic in the population. (See Fear: A political tool)

vice:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HAS20050714&articleId=696

No Video of the 3 Bombers Inside the London Subway Cars before they blew up?

by Dick Fojut

July 25, 2005
GlobalResearch.ca

At present, the London underground has an analogue video network and video transmission at 180 stations. Confirmed by new reports, there are close to two thousand video cameras which monitor London's Underground and mainline rail stations.

It is estimated that "the average Briton is caught on various cameras up to 300 times on a normal day." (The Age, 8 July 2005).

The key issue raised in this commentary refers to videocameras inside the underground carriages. In most European metro systems, the trains are equipped with a videowatch installation, with video cameras inside each carriage. The driver of the train is able to see inside each of the carriages, and the digital video files would be available to police investigators.


EVERY London bus and Underground train car has multiple Video Cameras!

The Police claim the bus videos malfunctioned, but made no similar claim about the video cameras in the Underground train cars. The Muslim men are claimed to have ridden from Luton to King's Cross where they split up to take separate trains. I've also read it takes about 25 minutes to ride from Luton station to where the bombs were detonated.

Therefore, there MUST be some 25 minutes continuous video of first four men, riding from Luton, then video of each (supposed) "Muslim" Bomber, seated with his rucksack on each of the 3 separate Underground cars, riding from King's Cross - to where the 3 bombs exploded SIMULTANEOUSLY!

If the London Police CANNOT produce those videos they SHOULD possess, the accused 4 men, 3 supposedly with rucksack bombs, were NOT on the Underground train cars, did NOT detonate bombs! And the Police are LYING.

The 3 young men from Leeds apparently were innocent "patsies" used in a "False Flag" phoney Blair Government instigated "terrorist" attack! They weren't suicide bombers, or deceived dupes. They WEREN'T on the trains!

Instead of 3 falsely accused Muslim "patsies," either unidentified "others" must have carried on and detonated the bombs - OR the bombs were ALREADY concealed under seats, or UNDER the subway cars - and detonated by REMOTE CONTROL!

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre for Research on Globalization.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=FOJ20050725&articleId=734

Svědectví očitého svědka londýnského atentátu:"..jako kdyby ta nálož byla ukryta pod vagónem!"

Tanečník z Cambridge Bruce Lait může mluvit o zázračném úniku, když bomba explodovala pouhých několik yardů od něj v soupravě podzemky.

32letý muž byl poražen výbuchem a vzbudil se do šílené scény ničení v podzemním tunelu nedaleko londýnské stanice Aldgate East station.

Pan Lait, který vyučuje tanec v Cambridgi, se domnívá, že on a jeho taneční partnerka Crystal Main byli jedinými pasažéry, kteří přežili výbuch bez vážných zranění - i když seděli nejblíže místa, kde vybuchla nálož.


Když přišel k sobě, leželo na něm tělo a byl obklopen mrtvými a raněnými. Ale je neuvěřitelné, že jedinými zraněními, které taneční mistr utrpěl, bylo pořezání obličeje a perforovaný ušní bubínek.

"Cítím se extrémně, extrémně šťastný," řekl.

K explozi došlo hned poté, co pan Lait a paní Mainová, 23, nastoupili do soupravy na Liverpool Street a zamířili na South Bank na zkoušku.

Vybavuje si, že vagón měl uvnitř tak 20-25 lidí nejrůznějších lidí nejrůznějšího věku od teenagerů až do 60.

"Pamatuji si Asiata, byl tam bílý muž v teplákové soupravě a baseballkou a naproti nám seděly dvě starší ženy," řekl.

"Byli jsme tam taky asi něco kolem minuty a najednou k tomu došlo. Byl to jak obrovský elektrický výboj, který nás srazil a prorazil bubínky. Stále ten zvuk slyším," řekl.

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Policajt říkal "pozor na tu díru, tady byla ta bomba". Plech byl vyhnutý nahoru, jako kdyby ta bomba byla pod vagónem. Zřejmě si mysleli, že bomba byla v zavazadle, ale nepamatuji si, že by někdo stál v místě, kde to bouchlo, ani jakékoli zavazadlo," řekl.

Byli vedeni tunelem na nástupiště v Aldgate, které bylo několik set yardů daleko a vyvedeni ven ze stanice, aby počkali na záchranku.

Pan Lait byl odvezen do Královské Londýnské Nemocnice do Whitechapelu, kde se v pátek setkal s Královnou.
http://www.osud.cz/cs/clanek.php?id=3795&PHPSESSID=d57684a077ea509a72879839faa3c26c

Georgia Claims Russia Behind February Bombing

Created: 26.07.2005 11:00 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:00 MSK

MosNews

Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili accused the Russian military Monday of being behind a series of attacks, including a powerful car bomb attack that killed three policemen in the eastern Georgian city of Gori in February.

The enquiry into the Gori attack “revealed that Russian colonel Anatoly Sysoyev organized a group of saboteurs who were trained on Russian territory. The group was responsible for several terrorist attacks and organized the attack in Gori,” Merabishvili said in televised remarks that were immediately denied by Russia’s embassy in Tbilisi and officials in Moscow.

“No Russian state institutions could have had any relation to this,” Yevgeny Ivanov, spokesman for the Russian embassy in Tbilisi, told AFP by telephone.

“The claims made by Georgia’s interior minister... do not have any bearing on reality. This is clearly a provocation, reflecting the unfriendly official line of official Tbilisi towards Moscow,” the Itar-Tass news agency quoted a senior official from the Russian army’s general staff as saying.

Three people have so far been arrested in the investigation and six more are wanted, Merabishvili said, adding that the results of the enquiry had been passed to the Russian embassy in Tbilisi, which Ivanov said would be studied. “I hope the Russian side will hand over all the suspects that organised and carried out these terrorist attacks on Georgian territory,” Merabishvili said.

The interior minister said he believed the group was responsible for attacks against power lines and an oil pipeline.

Sysoyev belonged to the Russian army’s main intelligence directorate and was frequently in touch with officials in Moscow, according to the filmed confession of one of the men arrested, Giya Valiyev, who has been charged with carrying out the bomb attack.

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http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/07/26/georgiaallegations.shtml

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The Hegelian Dialectic in History: Russian FSB caught blowing up buildings

http://www.prisonplanet.com/911.html#fsb

We now know that a blueprint for the creation of a global Pax Americana was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice-president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), Jeb Bush (George Bush's younger brother) and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences, was written in September 2000 by the neoconservative think tank, Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. It says "while the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."

The PNAC blueprint supports an earlier document attributed to Wolfowitz and Libby which said the US must "discourage advanced industrial nations from challenging our leadership or even aspiring to a larger regional or global role". It refers to key allies such as the UK as "the most effective and efficient means of exercising American global leadership". It describes peacekeeping missions as "demanding American political leadership rather than that of the UN". It says "even should Saddam pass from the scene", US bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will remain permanently... as "Iran may well prove as large a threat to US interests as Iraq has". It spotlights China for "regime change", saying "it is time to increase the presence of American forces in SE Asia".

The document also calls for the creation of "US space forces" to dominate space, and the total control of cyberspace to prevent "enemies" using the internet against the US. It also hints that the US may consider developing biological weapons "that can target specific genotypes [and] may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool".


Finally - written a year before 9/11 - it pinpoints North Korea, Syria and Iran as dangerous regimes, and says their existence justifies the creation of a "worldwide command and control system". This is a blueprint for US world domination. But before it is dismissed as an agenda for rightwing fantasists, it is clear it provides a much better explanation of what actually happened before, during and after 9/11 than the global war on terrorism thesis. This can be seen in several ways.

First, it is clear the US authorities did little or nothing to pre-empt the events of 9/11. It is known that at least 11 countries provided advance warning to the US of the 9/11 attacks. Two senior Mossad experts were sent to Washington in August 2001 to alert the CIA and FBI to a cell of 200 terrorists said to be preparing a big operation (Daily Telegraph, September 16 2001). The list they provided included the names of four of the 9/11 hijackers, none of whom was arrested.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html

Cheney's Plan: Nuke Iran

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6734

9/11 The Great Illusion by George Humphrey

This documentary is the film version of the book "9/11: The Great illusion", also by George Humphrey
60 objective facts, worthy questions and valuable insights that will make even the skeptics realize that 9/11 was orchestrated and carried out by the Power Elite within our own Government.

PREVIEW: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2004/190704greatillusion.htm

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Orwell Rolls in His Grave
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410407/
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S pasem Velkého bratra

25. července 2005 Miroslav Korecký

Nové dokumenty nebudou tak bezpečné, jak vláda slibovala

V nových cestovních pasech Čechů se má brzy objevit čip, v němž je uložena digitální fotografie, posléze i otisk prstu. Ochránci osobních dat varují, že za větší bezpečnost zaplatíme snadným zneužitím citlivých soukromých údajů.

Jdete po ulici a v protějším domě si někdo pročítá pas ve vaší kapse: jméno, příjmení, rodné číslo, národnost. Spolu s těmito údaji si do své databáze ukládá také vaši elektronickou podobenku a otisky prstů...
To není svět George Orwella, ale možná česká realita roku 2006. Už za rok mají začít úřady vydávat nové pasy: uprostřed tažení proti terorismu, na základě požadavků USA i EU, budou cestovní doklady obsahovat také biometrické prvky. Nejprve přijde na pas digitální fotografie, dva roky nato otisky obou ukazováčků, vážně se uvažuje také o obrazu oční duhovky. Odborníci na ochranu osobních dat už předem varují: vzhledem k použití technologie takzvaných RFID čipů (viz rámeček Chytré čipy) vážně hrozí, že se k citlivým údajům držitele dokladu dostane bez velké námahy prakticky kdokoli.

O technologii, s jejíž pomocí mají být do pasu vepsány biometrické údaje, se až dosud nehovořilo; ministerstvo vnitra jakoukoli možnost zneužití informací odmítalo. Nyní se ale dostalo do sporu s Úřadem pro ochranu osobních údajů. Ochránci dat upozorňují: radiofrekvenční čip, který bude obsahovat jak psané nacionále, tak biometrické prvky, půjde přečíst i na dálku a bez vědomí majitele pasu. „Ministerstvo vnitra nás uklidňuje, že vzdálenost mezi čipem a čtecím zařízením může být jen několik centimetrů, odborné studie nám ale potvrzují pravý opak,“ říká šéf úřadu Karel Neuwirt.

Odborníci tvrdí, že už dnes lze číst tento druh čipů na vzdálenost desítek metrů; brzy by to mohly být dokonce stovky metrů. Vzhledem k širokému použití technologie RFID v komerční sféře jsou přitom čtečky čipů běžně dostupné. Nabízí se mnoho způsobů zneužití informací. Třeba z duhovky lze vyčíst některé choroby, otisk prstu v sobě zase podle některých teorií skrývá sexuální orientaci. Představit si lze dokonce bombu, kterou přivede k výbuchu třeba blízkost čipu s konkrétní zakódovanou národností držitele pasu.
Jakým způsobem se stát pokusí zneužití údajů z čipů alespoň ztížit, ministerstvo vnitra zatím neříká. Konkrétní technické pojistky má navrhnout až vítěz tendru na výrobu nových pasů. Vnitro v chystaném zákoně zatím slibuje pouze mírné omezení, tedy že stát nebude vytvářet databázi otisků prstů všech držitelů pasů. „Otisky budou zničeny po uplynutí šedesáti dnů od vyrobení pasu,“ tvrdí mluvčí ministerstva Radka Kovářová. Úřadu na ochranu dat to však nestačí. „Žádáme ještě minimálně to, aby zákon výslovně nakazoval, že informace z čipů nesmí číst nikdo jiný než pohraniční a celní kontrola,“ říká Neuwirt. Ministerstvo vnitra to ale odmítá, a ochránci dat se proto pokusí vpašovat do zákona výslovný zákaz až při projednávání v parlamentu.

http://www.tyden.cz/text.asp?rid=5&show=text&tid=16445

LEDVOUSH: Rekl bych, ze z tohohle nebude mit "velky sef" radost. Tohle je, rekl bych, trochu trhlinka, na jinak bezvadne provedene akci...

Česko opět zvyšuje bezpečnostní opatření

Bezpečnostní opatření v Česku se po sobotním útoku teroristů v Egyptě opět zvýší. Vycvičí se více psů schopných hledat výbušniny, bude více policistů v letadlech. Více se budou využívat kamery ve městech. Přeprava výbušnin bude více sledována. Prohlásil to v pondělí po jednání Ústředního krizového štábu ministr vnitra František Bublan.
http://www.novinky.cz/domaci/61523-cesko-opet-zvysuje-bezpecnostni-opatreni.html

Once a government resorts to terror against its own population to get what it wants, it must keep using terror against its own population to get what it wants. A government that terrorizes its own people can never stop. If such a government ever lets the fear subside and rational thought return to the populace, that government is finished.


New York was fear city yesterday as heavily armed police swarmed a double-decker bus packed with tourists in Times Square and later shut down Penn Station after an irate passenger said he had a bomb.
In a dramatic sign of the city's edginess since the London transit bombings, cops evacuated buildings, shut midtown streets and forced about 60 terrified tourists to march off the double-decker bus, with their hands up, in the heart of Broadway.

Cops in riot gear handcuffed a group of apparently harmless South Asian-looking men with British accents after a jittery tour bus worker reported they seemed suspicious.


"People were really scared," said Jill Sully, 29, of Saskatoon, Canada. "There were sharpshooters with guns pointed toward our bus."

"I was scared out of my mind," said another passenger, Amanda Pesanello, 20, of Coventry, R.I. "We don't have things like this in Rhode Island."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/331264p-283131c.html

Londýnská policie jmenovala dva atentátníky

Londýnská policie v pondělí identifikovala dva muže podezřelé z útoků 21. července v tamních dopravních prostředcích. Podle Scotland Yardu umístili nálože do plastových nádob vyrobených v Indii. Ani jeden z podezřelých nebyl zatím zadržen. Policie se obává, že mohou akce zopakovat.
http://www.novinky.cz/zahranicni/61519-londynska-policie-jmenovala-dva-atentatniky.html

LEDVOUSH: Uz abychom meli biometricke RFID pasy, ktere nas pred tim ochrani. A az propojime vizove databaze s turnikety v metru, pokladnami v supermarketech, vyloucime moznost cerne prace. Ziskame vice na danich, a budeme se moci jeste vice zabezpecit pred temi zlymi. Ceka nas Krasny novy svet.

Dick Sutphen - The Battle for Your Mind: Persuasion and brainwashing techniques being used on the public today
http://www.ctyme.com/bwash/bwash.htm

Proč policie nezkontrolovala podezřelého Brazilce před vstupem do metra?
http://www.novinky.cz/zahranicni/61496-brazilec-utikal-v-londynskem-metru-kvuli-proslemu-vizu.html