[Dissent-fr-info] Berlin: Europe is not your friend]

Sat Apr 17 02:04:04 UTC 2010

This call in german:
http://outofcontrol.noblogs.org/post/2010/04/12/europaeische-sicherheitsarchitekturen-einstuerzen

*Berlin: Let the European Security-Architecture crumble!*

Europe is not your friend.

The European Union is often underestimated – the radical left is no
exception. This
despite the fact that far-reaching decisions are made on the EU political
level,
decisions that should drive anybody with an even remotely critical mindset
onto the
barricades.
The inhumane War on ‘illegal’ migration, the fight against crime, or
military
disaster relief – all these issues are coordinated and organised on the
EU level.
Critique has been rare and poorly received. While the european border
control
institution ‘Frontex’ has come to be well known, and the MEP’s
“insubordinance” with
regard to the SWIFT dealings might have been noticed, only a few people
will likely
have heard of INDECT or EuroDac. What is the Stockholm program? And why
exactly are
long-haired software developers part of the defense industry?

Every once in a while, when a new law – such as the german law on data
retention – is
broadly criticized or even deemed unconstitutional by the courts, the
fingers are
quickly pointed at the European Union. The new legal guidelines are said
to be
dictated by Brussels, and said guidelines must be implemented on the
national level.
Hence, the logical conclusion would be to scrutinize EU politics more
closely.
Aside from pushing it’s neo-liberal and neo-colonial economic agenda
down the world’s
collective throats, the EU is also engaged in a massive build-up of its
domestic and
foreign security apparatus to cement its position as global player on all
fronts:
geostrategical and economical, with regard to energy and resources on one
hand, and
so-called “intellectual property” on the other.

Know your enemy.

The Stockholm program is the manifestation of both the EU’s aggressive
legal
regulation practices and its technical armament. Basically, it’s a
5-year-plan
against freedom. Amongst many things, the program’s intent is to outfit
Frontex with
its own infrastructure. On top of all the equipment provided by Germany,
Italy,
Greece and others, which is currently used by border patrols to hunt down
refugees,
Frontex is to be equipped with its own boats, observation drones,
helicopters and
various other military gadgets, and as soon as possible.
Within Europe’s borders, rearmament progresses equally quickly. The
INDECT project
boosts law enforcment to a new level: software-based risk/danger analyses
are to help
recognize criminal actions – before they’ve even been committed. What
might sound
like science fiction is referred to as “predictive analytics”, and is
the hottest
trend in contemporary so-called security-research. The INDECT project is
to be fed
with all kinds of available data that could somehow prove promising, this
includes
footage from traffic and CCTV cameras, activities in social networks such as
facebook, bank dealings, customer profiles and of course the massiva
amounts of data
already held by police, attorney-generals and various intelligence
agencies. For easy
access to this database new, complex software is being used, capable of
handling
differing types of information.
This range of security policies serves the purpose of exerting ever more
control over
the EU’s citizens, in order to facilitate and intensify the efficiency
at which its
wageslaves can be exploited.

Europe’s security architecture didn’t appear out of nowhere, though,
it’s carried
onwards on many a player’s shoulders: armament companies, software
developers, but
also universities and research facilities on a quest for EU funding and
acclaim. It
comes as no surprise that Germany occupies leading positions in this field
of research.

With multiple crises looming, there’s a fair amount of fear of losing
control over a
potentially unruly population. Seeing as capitalism won’t function
without an endless
cycle of crises and recovery – not now, nor ever – and the costs
incurred by said
crises will not be paid for by the ruling class (and especially not
Europe’s elite!),
the only way forward is to pour yet more money and resources into the
perfection of
their security and control apparatus.

..and Action!

The aim of our series of rallies is to both ask critical questions of the
European
Union, and to highlight local hubs of Europe’s security architecture,
robbing them of
their perceived anonymity. For too long, the EU has been neglected in
critical
leftwing and radical discourse. Our goal is to combine our international
analysis
with local action. Our critical mass versus their critical infrastructure.
Shortly before the 1st of May – international labor day – we’ll use
our bicycles to
pay a visit to the protagonists of the european police congress, the
military
industrial complex, and political figureheads. Because their war is a war
against us
– mobilize against the European Union!

4/29/10

4:30 pm | embassy of the european union | U-Bahn-Station Brandenburger Tor
6:00 pm | SAP | Weinmeisterstraße/Rosenthaler Str.
7:00 pm | EADS | Potsdamer Platz

/Out of Control Berlin/

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