In Berlin was recently a conference of editors of the Fundamental Rights Reports. The aim of this report is the protection and support of constitutional rights of German citizens.
The participants had published a resolution, where they calling to stop the state surveillance measures and to protect the rights of German citizens.
The motto of the congress was “security state at the end. Congress for the future of civil rights. “There were a whole new different people and civil rights organizations who had meeting on 23 and May 24. Humboldt University in Berlin served as the venue.
These organizations call on the politicians to protect the fundamental rights and freedom of citizens. They expressed strong criticism because of the new laws necessary for the monitoring of the human which give a free hands to security authorities.
“Every man, must have a monitoring free zone.” According to the congress, the liberties must not be sacrificed to prevent the dangers.
Another criticism was the use of the army in own country and criminalization of the demonstrators. “There is no place for the army missions within the country in a constitutional democracy.”
What I am concerned about, I have some comprehension for all these security measures, which we have today, except perhaps the use of German army against demonstrators during the G8 summit. However, I am very worried because of the development of the situation. They want with these measures, to protect the security of the citizens, but it also creates a large scope to abuse.
What we need in any case, is an independent organization with broad power to take all these control measures controlled and protect the people effectively against abuse.
Human rights is the best cause to protect