Denmark approves new police powers ahead of Copenhagen | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The Danish ministry of justice said that the new powers of "pre-emptive" detention would increase from 6 to 12 hours and apply to international activists. If protesters are charged with hindering the police, the penalty will increase from a fine to 40 days in prison. Protesters can also be fined an increased amount of 5,000 krona (671 Euros) for breach of the peace, disorderly behaviour and remaining after the police have broken up a demonstration.The Danish police also separately issued a statement in August (pdf) applying new rules and regulations for protests at the climate conference, warning that "gatherings that may disturb the public order must not take place".
The Danish ministry of justice said that the new powers of "pre-emptive" detention would increase from 6 to 12 hours and apply to international activists. If protesters are charged with hindering the police, the penalty will increase from a fine to 40 days in prison. Protesters can also be fined an increased amount of 5,000 krona (671 Euros) for breach of the peace, disorderly behaviour and remaining after the police have broken up a demonstration.
The Danish police also separately issued a statement in August (pdf) applying new rules and regulations for protests at the climate conference, warning that "gatherings that may disturb the public order must not take place".
And now Dansk Folkeparti want Big Brother to listen on entire housing units [translation courtesy of GoogleTranslate, with minor modifications].
Intercepts everything Monitoring is technically feasible by using a so-called false base station, which can collect and record the identity of all mobile phones in the area around the false base station. It is also possible to intercept the content of conversations, SMS and data traffic from mobile phones in the vicinity. Handy suspicion The purpose of telephone scanning is that the mere idea that there is something interesting going on in a particular area should allow the police to launch an interception of all people in a particular area,
Monitoring is technically feasible by using a so-called false base station, which can collect and record the identity of all mobile phones in the area around the false base station.
It is also possible to intercept the content of conversations, SMS and data traffic from mobile phones in the vicinity.
Handy suspicion
The purpose of telephone scanning is that the mere idea that there is something interesting going on in a particular area should allow the police to launch an interception of all people in a particular area,
Time to dust off those Stasi 2.0 stickers.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
But the Social Liberals are flirting with the 2 % additional member cut-off for parliamentary elections, and parties tend to start hitting panic buttons when that happens. Which makes them a bit unpredictable. So this tea-leaf reading should be taken with an even larger grain of salt than is usually the case.
The Popular Party, meanwhile, is grandstanding. They get a soundbite where they get to show how tough they are on brown people, and by the time it gets killed in Parliament (by my count, R and DF have all of 20 % of the MPs between them...), everybody will have forgotten about it.
On the off chance that they can rope in a majority, the government's lawyers will tell them that they can't legally apply such rules only to brown people. Then the Popular Party will probably drop it. With the mandatory hissy fit about The Unelected (EUropean) Courts/Lawyers/Bureaucrats obstructing The Will Of The People, As Expressed By The People's Anointed Representatives - namely, the Popular Party. Or they'll carry it through on the (depressingly justified) expectation that they have been able to pack the Ausländeramt with enough quasi-skinhead goons to ensure preferential treatment of white Americans anyway.
I'm not clear about this point: do you mean they don't advocate such a line (and perhaps distinguish themselves from the DF over that explicitely); or that they go along with the DF but don't play up this point? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Such subtlety is generally lost in the astonishment that R and DF have managed to agree on the general outline of a law. There's so much personal animosity between those two parties that it'd be a newsworthy story if they agreed that the sky is blue.
