Snart blir nok "internasjonal terrorist" et honørord på venstresida...
- Per
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How to become an international terrorist?
14th of April 1997, a joyful company of Russians is travelling from Berlin
to Prague with train. In border, one of the Russians is singled out since
validity period of his visa ended day before. After thorough check he is
let through border the next morning, no any sanctions, no fines.
19.30 in 16th of June, 2001, Järntorget of Gothenburg in Sweden. Riot
police surrounds peaceful demonstration against police brutality, and
singles out people to be arrested, places them to buses. From group of
Russians arrested, Artem Chlenov is separated and not freed with the
others.
Two small, seemingly completely separate events may have more in common
with each other than the main actor.
SIS at work
Schengen Information System, active since 1995, is a common register of
police of EU countries. It stores information about criminals, victims of
crimes and possible victims of future crimes - definition which propably
fits any person whatsoever. SIS stores name, nicknames, description of
person and judgement if registered person might be violent or not.
SIRENE, appendix of SIS stores information about persons sexual behaviour,
habits, friends, political opinions and organisations to which she or he
belongs.
Every friend and acquaintance of Artem Chlenov knows that he is the most
peaceful person one can meet. The crime he committed, and why he was put
to a special isolation with special procedure "for the sake of national
security", is obviously not that he threw a police with a rock 15th of
june as claimed. Plenty of people who stood with him far from the police
line are ready to testify for him. His real crime is that 1997 he was
travelling with a collection of souvenirs from Berlin squats, including
provocative Radikal-paper, not a long time before banned by German
authorities. A paper from which he is not able to understand a word, since
Russian is the only language he speaks.
Enough proof for being a potential terrorist and to be recorded to SIS and
SIRENE anyway. A record which Swedish police picked up more than four
years later, and made their conclusions.
Obviously, German and other international terrorists armed to teeth will
be official reality of any coming up international demonstration to be
organised in Sweden. As predictable as that these terrorists will always
be able to narrowly slip awat from the Swedish officials in the last
moment, just like spying submarines during the days of the cold war. But
since someone has to be imprisoned anyway, you better not travel in EU
with wrong magazines, wrong company, wrong ideas or wrong outlook. All
these are enough reason to record you to SIS and SIRENE, to be the next
international terrorist to be locked up.
Antti Rautiainen webpage of campaign to free Artem Chlenov:
http://www.tao.ca/~dikobraz/freeartem
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