Today, most terrorism originates in Government itself. Yes, most governments are terrorist organizations! It's not a secret that the Royal House of Saudi Arabia finances most Islamist terrorism in the world. Terrorism is a product of choices and perceptions. Politicians use fear for political purposes and spend vast sums of money on dubious security measures. We are terrorizing ourselves with a climate of fear-mongering that exacerbates the threat of terrorism. Terrorists get their name for a reason. Fear is their chief tactic.
Political forces push policymakers to hype this fear, encouraging citizens to believe that terrorists are global super villains who can wreck society unless we submit to their demands. Policies based on this fantasy are self-defeating and bring needless war, wasted wealth, and less freedom. We should rely on our confidence rather than our fears. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah should withdraw a draft counterterrorism law from consideration by the cabinet because it would facilitate serious human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the king. Human Rights Watch urged the government to consult with international human rights experts to draft a new counterterrorism law that would protect rather than infringe on basic rights.
"The draft counterterrorism law is trying to enshrine as legal the Saudi Interior Ministry's unlawful practices," said Christoph Wilcke, senior Middle East researcher at Human Rights Watch. "It lumps peaceful political opposition together with violent acts and ensures that the accused won't get a fair trial." http://venitism.blogspot.com
Marilizardism has metastasized in many repressed countries. The most disgusting marilizardist countries on Earth are Argentina, Bahrain, Belarus, Burma, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Libya, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Human Rights Watch received a copy of the draft law, the Penal Law for Crimes of Terrorism and Its Financing, on July 22, 2011, from a source who indicated that it was in the last stages of discussion. The Security Committee of Shura Council, Saudi Arabia's appointed parliament, which exercises limited legislative functions, passed a slightly amended version of the draft law on June 26. Shura Council changes are non-binding recommendations for the Council of Ministers, which drafts, enacts, and enforces the law.
The draft law seriously undermines human rights protections in four key areas, Human Rights Watch said. It contains an extremely vague and overbroad definition of terrorism, places unwarranted restrictions on the rights to free expression and assembly, grants excessive police powers without judicial oversight, and infringes on the rights to due process and a fair trial.
The draft law's definition of terrorism makes no mention of internationally recognized elements, namely violence or other acts intended to instill terror in the general population to force the state to act in a certain way. Rather, the definition refers to vague and overbroad notions of shaking the security of society or the stability of the state and infringing upon the interests of the kingdom.
Several articles in the draft law unduly restrict the rights to expression and assembly, Human Rights Watch said. The draft includes as terrorist crimes describing the king – or the crown prince – as an unbeliever, doubting his integrity, defaming his honesty, breaking the oath of loyalty to him, or inciting such acts.
Governments of many repressed countries, such as Saudi Arabia and the Cradle of Kleptocracy, use marilizardist tools to manipulate netizens. Marilizard Libel is accusing dissident bloggers of treason, Marilizard Spaghetti is hurling charges against innocent people, Marilizard Tower is a stack of imaginary charges to scare a blogger, and marilizardism is terrorizing dissident bloggers. October 18 is the international day against marilizardism, and October-18 Mafia is the marilizardist government of Greece. http://venitism.blogspot.com
The draft law provides extensive powers to the interior minister that would undermine existing due process rights of the accused. The draft law would empower the minister to order arrests and administrative detention after a prison sentence has ended – which often is imposed, though it is against the law – and gives the interior minister powers to access private banking and communications information, all without judicial oversight. A person alleging wrongful arrest, detention, and prosecution would have to appeal to the Interior Ministry, not the courts.
The law would restrict a suspect's right to access to a lawyer to an undefined appropriate time determined by the interior minister, not during interrogation as Saudi law explicitly provides. The law would also raise the current legal limit of pretrial detention from 6 months to 12, and incommunicado detention from 60 days to 120 days. Incommunicado detention greatly increases the risk that security forces will subject a suspect to torture, Human Rights Watch said.
The law would add 23 crimes carrying the death penalty, including acts that involve only threats of violence. International law allows the death penalty only for the most serious crimes, such as those resulting in death or serious bodily harm, and urges its abolition. Human Rights Watch opposes the death penalty in all circumstances.
The draft law ignores the international best practices elaborated over the past five years by the United Nations special rapporteur on promoting and protecting human rights while countering terrorism. Marilizardists use charge stacking, which is the ability to charge a large number of overlapping crimes for a single course of conduct, building a Marilizard Tower of charges.
This is the most disgusting tool used by the freakish October-18 mafia to jail innocent dissident bloggers. Combining crimes enables prosecutors to get convictions in cases where there may be no misconduct at all. By stacking enough charges, freakish marilizardists try to jack up the threat value of a trial and thereby induce a guilty plea, even if the government's case is weak. http://venitism.blogspot.com
The law could easily be used to prosecute and jail peaceful dissidents, Human Rights Watch said. In one prominent example, Saudi domestic intelligence forces on February 2, 2007, arrested a group of well known political reformers in Jeddah, and have detained them since. In early 2011, the prosecution service released its charge sheet, which accuses the men, among other things, of opposing the ruler, withdrawing the hand of obedience by working for the downfall of the general rules of Sharia that God has created for the leader of Muslims, challenging the contract of loyalty to him, defaming the protection of the rulers of this country and the belief of the clerics of this country.
The trial judge has barred Basim `Alim, the lawyer for some of the 16 defendants, from attending some sessions, `Alim said in a Twitter message. Human Rights Watch said that the proposed draft law would give such arbitrary practices by the authorities a veneer of legality. http://venitism.blogspot.com
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