MCAB - Most! This year it's that time again. The
Freedom Not Fear demonstration starts on 11 September 2010 in Berlin. Last year some 30 000 people came from all over the country to the capital to oppose the ongoing surveillance mania demonstrate. Even last year this issue drew public attention, many media reports about this and not least because they are founded numerous civil rights groups. The
FoeBuD successfully complained against data retention before the Federal Constitutional Court. All had to be cleared so far collected data. But a short time later planned CDU / CSU, a new law. The pressure is high. Currently, among the familiar screen searches, student databases, satellite tracking, Mass. tightness testing, video surveillance and recording, Central Aliens Register, passenger data collection, online searches, etc. further action on the agenda, including the
Swift Agreement as a result, sensitive bank data from all EU citizens will be forwarded to the U.S., the employee database
ELENA which is to centrally store all Endgeltnachweise electronically or
ACTA , a proposed plurilateral trade agreement that will transform the Internet into a media company, provided that we are not careful.
already being conducted throughout the city to prepare for this demonstration to draw attention. It distributed flyers, posters pasted and asked shops and pubs just unhook it. In the course of we were yesterday Hermannplatz stopped by the police and found our personal details. A force of seven, heavily equipped police officers then heard us before the spot. I tried to explain to them what was happening, that the demo has three years are run and what we want to protect nothing more than our (and their) fundamental rights. Despite the interest of the police officer first happened then nothing.
Two passers-by complained that even on such a protective measure, fiercely criticized by which one is harassing me at every street corner with advertising for "Mc Donald's and the whole shit," but if "a few people do something sensible," they are von "euch Deppen" festgehalten. Ich gab den beiden ein paar Flyer und sie zogen auf mein anraten weiter, da ich nicht wollte das sie ebenfalls noch Probleme bekamen.
Währenddessen ging die Maßnahme weiter. Einer meiner Mitstreiter wollte sich eine Zigarette anzünden, was ihm aber von den Polizisten untersagt wurde. Außerdem mussten wir unsere Hände in Brustnähe halten, aus Angst wir würden eine Atombombe oder so in unseren Hosentaschen mitführen. Nach einiger Zeit murmelte ich vor mir her, das wir ggf. die Presse einschalten könnten. Danach ging erstaunlicherweise alles ein wenig schneller:
Nach Rücksprache mit ihrer Einsatzzentrale, ob diese Demo denn auch nicht "illegal" sei ließen sie uns weiterziehen. They even gave us a document with official number of the responsible officials to protect us from further reprisals. So far so good. Only this worked out later in the evening not as good as we could find.
Two police officers stopped us on height Rathaus Neukölln / Sun Alley and asked for a permit. We told them earlier by the meeting with their counterparts in the evening, they also wanted to show the document, but they ignored us and threatened with criminal charges because of "wild bill posting" if we do not just pasted posters away again. Although I'd never heard of such a clause in the Penal Code, but nungut. One has not the men in green necessarily overburden.
One of the men was somewhat choleric nature and whispered to us vehemently. The other recognized (after we removed the posters in front of them again) a poster of the Media Spree
demo of a few weeks ago under there and asked us if we also "attached" had. I tried to explain as calmly and that he should even look at it as the date on it, and to compare it with today. But nothing helped. Even my attempt to explain to him that this does not make sense of this previously ran close because we are so "over-placarded" had, he said: "I'm not stupid, it's still wet!" - It seems that he paper to collect has never the joyous experience of the slug. Fortunately the men had
continue well quickly, so they left it with a warning, and the kind information: "If I catch you again then you can make you focus on what".
Next time I will copy once the relevant passages from the Criminal Code. Neukölln is still a beautiful area.
