Blair to Ask UN for Crackdown on Incitement

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Blair to ask UN for crackdown on incitement

Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor
Monday September 12, 2005
The Guardian


The United Nations security council is set to adopt on Wednesday a British-sponsored resolution for a worldwide crackdown on incitement to terrorism. Tony Blair, who proposed the move after the London bombings, is to press the case in person during a three-day summit at the UN headquarters in New York.

The UK plans to act unilaterally against British-based advocates of violence but wants such measures to be adopted worldwide. A source close to negotiations said there was almost no opposition on the 15-member security council.

After the attacks on London, the British government condemned Islamists supportive of violence and expressed concern about the impact of religious schools in Pakistan. The resolution would place an obligation on all governments to adopt laws that prohibit incitement, deny a safe haven to offenders and "counter violent extremist ideologies, including steps to prevent the subversion of educational, cultural, and religious institutions by terrorists and their supporters".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1567741,00.html

State terrorism included?

[neweurope]

1. If this were as harmless as it reads it wopuld be totally unneccessary.

The main question to me is: Who decides on which grounds what's "incitement"?

Will people be even told how they "offended", and will they be able to go to court about it/defend themselves? Or will it be like with other "terra!"-laws in the US, Australia and GB so far - that once you're labeled a "terrorist" they can just lock you up indefinitely without telling the public about it, without any defense at all possible?

I'm afraid that soon we'll land in jail for opposing our "democratically elected" governments!

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[emad]

2. Good. Then maybe ex-top UK terror cop David Venness, now UN

Deputy Secretary General for Security will arrest the bastard and charge him for conspiracy along with Dumbass over 9/11.