13 E1 Landeskunde Special - Abi 2006

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Philip

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Civil Rights

Facts:

Definition: A civil right is a statutory right which is given by the state for his citizens.
The right to vote and all other basic rights are civil rights.

Civil Rights are rights which relate to the relationship between state and citizen and not to the relationship among the citizens.
Civil Rights are only for the citizens of the particular state and not for every human of the world (like the human rights).

In the Middle Age the Civil Rights was a privilege for only a few people.

Britain’s fight against the terror and successions for the civil rights
- people who are under terror suspicion can be captive for 14 days without a resolution of a judge
- people with an one-two pass can lost their British citizenship

Comment:

Since the terrorism in the world gets stronger and more dangerous fort he people in the west, there is a discussion about special anti-terrorism laws.
An example for such a law is the anti-terrorism law in Britain which was passed on February 19th 2001.
This law represent a significant undermining of civil rights.
It’s a difficult question to decide, if it’s right to break civil rights with the aim to protect the people from terrorism.

One argument against such laws is that the government has the possibility to go into the houses of Arabian citizens without a search warrant. They don’t need a reason to do this and because of this it means a degradation for the people and an infraction of their feelings.
The risk to generalize actions like this or to abuse such a law is very high.
When it’s not punishable to break the civil rights or even the human rights, there can be used tortures to get information about a terrorist attack. And of course it’s not sure if the human who gets tortured have any information.

I think that it’s possible to rescue life’s when you can go into the houses of suspicious persons in a very fast way, but these suspicions have to be fortified by many evidences.

This anti-terrorism laws are a sensitive topic and they always show a chance and dangers for the fight against terrorism and for the dealings with our foreign citizens.