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War on Terror Surveillance and Human Rights

War on Terror Surveillance and Human Rights. Dr Maurice Mullard 30 November 2007. American Exceptionalism Human Rights. Freedom of Speech Freedom of Expression

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War on Terror Surveillance and Human Rights

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  1. War on Terror Surveillance and Human Rights Dr Maurice Mullard 30 November 2007

  2. American Exceptionalism Human Rights • Freedom of Speech Freedom of Expression • Freedom of Expression Article 10 European Convention of Human Rights 28th May 2003 Declaration on Freedom of Communication on the Internet Council of Europe • Freedom of speech and freedom of the Press First Amendment Constitution of the United States • Examples Hate Speech Defamation of character libel Ku Klax Klan Europe hate speech Holocaust Racism • USA Experience Palme Raids McCarthy • Culture of Distrust

  3. President Bush Response after 9/11 • Patriot Act 2001 Guantanamo Bay • Legal Black hole illegal Enemy Combatant • Surveillance and secret wire taps FISA 1978 Vietnam War Martin Luther King • Military Commissions Act 2007 habeas corpus

  4. Uk Anti Terror legislation • Definitions of terrorism glorification of terror • Detentions and history of internment • Stop and search • Integrate • Islamic fascism Western concept to explain new terrorism

  5. FRAGILE HUMANITY • History of genocide some 36 genocides since 1890 • In the name of progress Nazi Germany purify the race gypsies, disabled, Jews • Soviet Russia name of socialism 60 million dead • 1960 Rwanda Cambodia Bangladesh

  6. Where is morality • To do what is morally right? • Christian values did not stop the Holocaust • Islam and terrorism • Fragile Humanism

  7. Fragility of Life • Soviet Experiment estimate 20 million dead from Lenin to Stalin utopian dream need of terror failure of French Revolution and Paris Commune • Nazi racial purity use of science estimate 20 million dead • China Culture Revolution 38 million dead • Pol Pot Cambodia • Genocide Rwanda Bosnia

  8. Utopian Dreams • Science idea and dreams of progress end of conflict and disharmony • Condorcet Comte humanity and science • Core of the Enlightenment • Market Liberalism a Utopian dream • Made possible with break up of Soviet Union triumph of capitalism

  9. Neo Conservative utopian dream • End of History export democracy and freedom and markets as model of progress template for change • Other models of development Beijing Consensus Putin in Russia

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