EU plans to stop anybody protesting?

Question

The “enemy within”:

EU plans the surveillance

of protestors and the

criminalisation of protests

The EU plans would:

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give control of operations to the newly-created EU “Task Force of Chief Police Officers”

which has no legal basis for its activities

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create mechanisms for “operational” cooperation for which there are no legal powers

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legitimise the ongoing surveillance by “police and intelligence officers” (internal security

services) of “persons or groups likely to pose a threat to public order and security”

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create national databases of “troublemakers” based on suspicion and supposition without any legal

standards or data protection and the unregulated exchange of this data

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allow EU member states to pass laws to prevent people from going to protests in other

countries if their names have been recorded as “suspects” or if they have been convicted of minor

public order offences (obstructing the highway)

The Statewatch report concludes that:

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the EU plans threaten the right to free movement and the right to protest

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seven EU governments - Germany, Sweden, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the United

Kingdom - wanted to go even further and create an explicit EU-wide database of “troublemakers”

and to introduce travel bans on suspected “troublemakers” across the EU

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the plans will lead to the surveillance of everyday political activity, with no limits or data

protection, which is quite unacceptable in democracies

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the plans were rushed through secret meetings in Brussels without any parliamentary scrutiny

(national or European) and no chance whatsoever for civil society to register its objections

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the plans will have little effect on the ground and the only option is going to be the

increasingly authoritarian policing of protests in the streets

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the overall effect is legitimise surveillance and to criminalise protests

Answer 1

So that is why Gordon Brown wants this Treaty!!So no one can criticise his moronic policies!!That is why we must have an EU Referendum!!

Answer 2

Most of us don't, all this is being done behind closed doors. I have been bleating on here for ages to get people to protest against this act of treason, that is, the signing of the EU Treaty that will take place in July. The above is only the beginning, we will end up being a totalitarian state.

Answer 3

Stand and be recognised for or against us being governed by the Brussels sprouts party of french Germaine,

I'm against

Answer 4

Sounds like you have been given bad information there, i haven't heard any of this so i am compelled to dismiss it is being garbage, that has been fed down the "grape-vine" so to speak by anti-EU members of the public...

Answer 5

Get ten people together and apply to your local council for a "Local Referendum on the EU Constitution".   A lot of people have now done this and todays protesters have shown the way too.......Most of us want out of this stupid, money wasting Parliament that thinks it rules Europe......We want our own laws and way of life that has suited us for many

thousands of years.

Answer 6

this is just one example of many!! that scare the h**l out of me. the EU is an authoritarian organisation akin to soft dictatorship. i find it hard to believe that any British citizen would want to sign up for the EU. and well done to you for finding these things. we need people to point these things out. our traitorous government, or the pathetic opposition wont do it. they've all to much to lose, the treacherous b@stards.