of an impossible right to health
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Nos preocupamos por su seguridad
La "religion" sécuritaire
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Building the Permanent Security State
Alongside invasions, aerial bombing and drone attacks of eight Muslim nations since 9/11, the US, UK, and EU promulgated many new laws allegedly to fight the manufactured enemy of al-Qaeda in the homelands. The USA PATRIOT Act passed the US Senate with 98 votes for and one against six weeks after 9/11. It granted sweeping surveillance powers, legalised the indefinite detention of non-citizens, and reduced judicial oversight of government spying on citizens, and arbitrary arrests. Its provisions were subsequently renewed and remain in place. The US also created dozens of new security agencies after 9/11 including the Department of Homeland Security and NCTC.
Britain’s Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, rushed through the Westminster Parliament within weeks of 9/11, allowed the Home Secretary to detain foreign terror suspects indefinitely without charge or trial. This involved suspension of habeas corpus – the legal requirement that a person arrested for an alleged crime is brought bodily before a court within 24 hours of incarceration – which English law traces back to Magna Carta. Under the Anti-Terrorism act, sixteen men were held without trial at HMP Belmarsh, some for close to three years, before the House of Lords ruled in December 2004 that the power was unlawful, not because the emergency was unjustified, but because the power applied only to foreigners. Lord Hoffmann’s dissent went further: ‘the real threat to the life of the nation… comes not from terrorism but from laws such as these.’ Parliament’s response was not to relinquish the power but to extend it to British citizens as well, through a ‘control-order’ regime a High Court judge later called ‘an affront to justice.’
Agencies charged with administering the war on terror and the surveillance state have grown significantly since 9/11 in the UK as well as the US and other western "democracies". In the UK MI5 records show the Service doubling in manpower from roughly 2,000 in 2001 to around 4,000 today . Counter-terrorism now consumes two-thirds of MI5 activities, a growth the Service attributes to 9/11, and the 2005 London bombings...
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