The Weekly Report Cornerstone

   WEEK 48 Nov 19th to 25th 2001

   PARLIAMENT APPROVES OF ANTI-TERROR LAWS

   The British Parliament approved Monday Tony Blair's controversial proposals for new anti-terror laws. Laws that among other attacks on human rights, allow the police to imprison suspects for an extended period of time without an actual sentence. Article 5 in the European Human Rights Convention specifically forbids imprisonment without a sentence, though an addition allows it in war and during emergencies. This is the exception Blair and his people now claim is in effect.
   Others claim that Blair and others, and the establishment in general have far more far-reaching goals in mind, that this and other measures are a long term strategy to control the restless population and all critical voices.
   Britain already has in place one of the most extensive set of laws made to control and punish freedom of speech and expression.    At least a thousand people has been incarcerated without a trial or a court hearing in the United States after September 11th. As America did with people of Japanese descent during World War 2, it's now doing with people of Arab descent.

  

  

  

  

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