Enough is Enough for Mexico

There is the claim, the Chamber of Deputies adopted in committee on Monday the draft opinion on amendments to the Homeland Security Act gives the President broad discretion to deal with by the armed forces and the Center for Research and Security Nacional (Cisen), and through repression, spying on citizens and questioning civilians, altered states of conflict or diverse greatest threat to internal security. The document contains items as unconstitutional, authoritarian and dangerous as the chief executive empowered to use the federal armed forces against movements or conflicts of a political, electoral, social or work, which is considered to constitute a challenge or a threat to internal security, to give to soldiers, sailors and officers Cisen powers to intervene and integrate telephone communications confidential records, including political, the armed forces to empower the attribution to restrict the movement of goods and vehicles, as checking the belongings of private individuals in the streets, require information from civilians, whatever tool is necessary, and allow to Navy, Army and anonymous informants have Cisen and that his intelligence tasks and counterintelligence, make use of any method of data collection. The initiative is based on absurd and deceitful considerations that aim to turn unequivocal constitutional mandates such as the claim that in every place and time, peace (as opposed to the war) is relative, and the claim that armed force should participate in coordinating actions to address a challenge or threat, not reaching the end of the restriction or suspension of rights and guarantees, requires immediate and effective preventive law enforcement bodies and civil authorities are not able to provide. In short, it aims to give legal cover for de facto's suspension of individual guarantees already prevails in large parts of the country, but without assuming the political costs arising from a formal declaration of state of emergency. Such a possibility would render an effective defense of human rights of the population would total immunity to public employees who violate them, create the conditions for widespread criminalization of political opposition, social movements and labor protests, and give legal foundation persecution and repression of post-electoral disagreements. That's all the more significant and ominous that seeks to impose such regulations on the eve of the federal electoral processes envisaged for next year. Finally, it would be doubly tragic if, after the loss of public safety caused by the poor performance of the government's strategy against organized crime, citizens had to face a serious and unjustifiable impairment to their individual liberties and guarantees, as a result of a reform Legal doubtful utility to deal with crime, but inevitably disastrous consequences for human rights, freedom and the prospects for democracy in the country.

• 2011-08-29T04:08:26+00:00
• Duration: 03:49

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espionaje a ciudadanos, interrogatorios, violacion de derecho, anticonstitucional, reforma ley de seguridad, criminalizacion, represion, inconformidad, impunidad, gobierno mexicano, mexico