July 13, 2005July 13, 2005
. SYNASPISMOS expressed its opposition to the measures decided by the Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs on 13 July 2005 in response to the bloody terrorist attacks in London. The following statement was issued by the party on 13.7.2005:
“The proposals for the generalized monitoring and retention of telecommunications data of all European citizens without exceptions, which will be accessible to all security forces, tend to create an Orwellian nightmarish landscape in Europe. But terrorism cannot be confronted by all encompassing policing, cancelling all forms of privacy and suppressing the most essential civil human rights, freedoms and the citizens’ personal data.
Seeking security in this way undermines democracy; rewards police high - handedness and promotes security forces into a state-within-the-state factor. Such a situation carries sad memories for the Greek but also for all the European people.
The effective countering of terrorism requires direct political measures and first of all the withdrawal of all foreign occupation armies from Iraq and Afghanistan, the halting of pre-emptive wars and threats against sovereign states and certainly, the just solution of the Palestinian issue instead of tolerating and supporting the “hawks” of Israel.
We call on the New Democracy government to take a clear stand instead of making evasive statements and to oppose al measures which, in the name of the struggle against terrorism limits freedoms and rights and promotes the police state”.
Press Bureau, 13 July 2005