Dodaj nową odpowiedź

Just like the US government used 9/11 attacks to have more control over their people (PATRIOT act), the Estonian government is using the April riots of last year to do the same by changing 12 laws, which would drastically expand the rights of police. The proposal to go on with these changes came from the Interior minister Jüri Pihl from the social-democratic party.

The following points worry us the most, as we think the bill would:

• Violate the constitution, banning any demonstration which seeks changes in the constitutional order.
• Tempt governments to misuse the police.
• Tempt police officials to misuse their powers
• Allow blocking peacful demonstrations with dissolution orders
• Allow „preventative detainment of persons at whim.
• Allow detainment of peacful demonstrators on the pretext of „items suitable for concealing ones face”
• Weaken obstacles wich deter mass surveiliance
• Allow ocasionally lethal electric weapons to replace persuasion or pepper spray

To show our discontent towards these changes, different groups have organized petitions against the proposed bill and on the 22nd of february a demonstration in the Estonian capital Tallinn will be organized by the Movement Against the Police-State. We ask our friends from all over the world to help us fight the future under the Police state, by organizing actions infront of Estonian embassies everywhere, on the 22nd. Info about the embassies can be found here: http://www.vm.ee/eng/kat_150/

In Solidarity,
Estonian Anarchist Collective PunaMust
www.punamust.org