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Übersetzung Aufruf Köln-Demo

Call

to demonstrate in Cologne on Saturday, March 15th, 2008, at 14:00 hrs.

Political parties, civic action groups, and professional associations nationwide call for participation in a demonstration against the ever increasing surveillance by state agencies and the industrial sector.

On Saturday, March 15th, 2008, citizens shall rally on the streets under the slogan „For a Tomorrow in Liberty“. Meeting point is the Roncalli-Platz („Domplatte“) in Cologne.

Not only since the attacks of September 11th did various federal governments pass ever more authoritative regulations for the surveillance of Germanys civilian population. Not least, todays main driving force behind increased spying upon the citizens through the state materializes in the person of Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, Germanys Federal Minister of the Interior, who in the past did announce numerous measures, the conformity of wich with the German Basic Law can be questioned distinctly. The extensive data retention of all communications alone, created by telephone, mobile phones, internet, and e-mail of any respectable person, does restrict the individual rights in a manner inconsistent with a body politic based upon free-democratic fundamental orders.

Experts on criminalistics do agree that such surveillance measures do not have any significant impact upon the prevention of terrorism or criminal offences. Such resolutions merely constitute a wasteful spending of millions of Euros of tax payers funds and, through restriction of freedom of speech and the encroachment on crucial areas of human conduct of life, jeopardize our democracy.

Political parties and organisations from all over Germany shall not stand by and watch this ridiculous urge for surveillance on behalf of the federal government, which is hostile towards civil rights and expensively paid for, any longer.

Members of this alliance are:

● German Work Group on Data Retention (AK-Vorratsdatenspeicherung) ● Cologne Civic Action Group „Liberty is Security“ ● Chas Computer Club Cologne ● Green Party Cologne ● Leftist Party Cologne ● Cologne District Associaton of the Piratenpartei (Party of Pirates) ● North-Rhine-Westphalia Regional Association of the Piratenpartei (Party of Pirates) ● Association of The Free Lektors

whose call for demonstration is supported by:

● North-Rhine-Westphalia Regional Association of Bündnis90/DieGrünen (Green Party) ● North-Rhine-Westphalia Regional Association of Die Linke (Leftist Party) ● Bergisch-Gladbach Local Association of Die Linke (Leftist Party) ● Hamburg District Associaton of the Piratenpartei (Party of Pirates ● Rhineland Palatine Regional Association of the Piratenpartei (Party of Pirates ● Kein Mensch ist Illegal (No Human Being is Illegal) ● Reflect

We appeal to all citizens to participate in this demonstration, dated March 15h, 2008, and, thus, show this government that the German citizens publicly demonstrate for their liberty and civil rights.

The demands:

● stop of the total logging of telephone, mobil phone, e-mail, and internet communication (law on data retention) ● stop of the planning for secret online-searches of computers ● stop the biometric registration of respected citizens ● no storage of flight passenger informations and passing on of such data to other countries ● no automated car license plate matching on public roads ● stop to all further planned legislative projects with the object to enhance surveillance of the citizens of Germany ● revision of all existing surveillance laws