http://www.itamaraty.gov.br/sala-de-imprensa/notas-a-imprensa/retencao-de-nacional-brasileiro-em-londres/view Retenção de nacional brasileiro em Londres
18/08/2013 - O Governo brasileiro manifesta grave preocupação com o episódio ocorrido no dia de hoje em Londres, onde cidadão brasileiro foi retido e mantido incomunicável no aeroporto de Heathrow por período de 9 horas, em ação baseada na legislação britânica de combate ao terrorismo. Trata-se de medida injustificável por envolver indivíduo contra quem não pesam quaisquer acusações que possam legitimar o uso de referida legislação. O Governo brasileiro espera que incidentes como o registrado hoje com o cidadão brasileiro não se repitam. ***** Brazilian citizen held in London The Brazilian government expresses grave concern about the episode that happened today in London, where a Brazilian citizen was held without communication at Heathrow airport for 9 hours, in an action based in the British anti-terrorism legislation. This measure is without justification since it involves an individual against whom there are no charges that can legitimate the use of that legislation. The Brazilian Government expects that incidents such as the one that happened to the Brazilian citizen today do not repeat. Greenwald Partner falsely detained as Terrorist: How to Create a Dictatorship<http://www.juancole.com/2013/08/greenwald-terrorist-dictatorship.html> Posted on 08/19/2013 by Juan Cole How to turn a democracy into a STASI authoritarian state in 10 easy steps: 1. Misuse the concept of a Top Secret government document (say, the date of D-Day) and extend classification to trillions of mundane documents a year.<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/28/nsa-surveillance-too-many-documents-classified> 2. Classify all government crimes and violations of the Constitution as secret 3. Create a class of 4.5 million privileged individuals, many of them corporate employees, with access to classified documents but allege it is illegal for public to see leaked classified documents 4. Spy on the public in violation of the Constitution 5. Classify environmental activists as terrorists<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/terrifying-hilarious_n_3443793.html> while allowing Big Coal and Big Oil to pollute and destroy the planet 6. Share info gained from NSA spying on public with DEA, FBI, <http://www.juancole.com/2013/08/things-surveillance-drones.html>local law enforcement to protect pharmaceuticals & liquor industry from competition from pot, or to protect polluters from activists 7. Falsify to judges and defense attorneys how allegedly incriminating info was discovered 8. Lie and deny to Congress you are spying <http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2013/06/fire_dni_james_clapper_he_lied_to_congress_about_nsa_surveillance.html>on the public. 9. Criminalize the revelation of government crimes <http://www.juancole.com/www.juancole.com/2013/08/reassurances-surveillance-reassuring.html>and spying as Espionage 10. Further criminalize whistleblowing as Terrorism, have compradors arrest innocent people, detain them, and confiscate personal effects with no cause or warrant <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow>(i.e. David Miranda, partner of Glenn Greenwald) Presto, what looks like a democracy is really an authoritarian state ruling on its own behalf and that of 2000 corporations, databasing the activities of 312 million innocent citizens and actively helping destroy the planet while forestalling climate activism ----------------------------------------------- Americas Closest Ally Declares Glenn Greenwalds Partner a Terrorist<http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/18/americas-closest-ally-declares-glenn-greenwalds-partner-a-terrorist/> By: emptywheel <http://www.emptywheel.net/author/emptywheel/> Sunday August 18, 2013 3:27 pm Glenn Greenwalds partner, David Miranda, got detained<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow> at Heathrow for 9 hours and had his electronic devices confiscated. David Miranda, who lives with Glenn Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at 8.30am and informed that he was to be questioned under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The controversial law, which applies only at airports, ports and border areas, allows officers to stop, search, question and detain individuals. The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows before officers must release or formally arrest the individual. According to official figures, most examinations under schedule 7 over 97% last under an hour, and only one in 2,000 people detained are kept for more than six hours. Miranda was then released without charge, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles. Aside from the outrage over the treatment of a partner of a British newspapers employee, consider what it means that the UK used their terrorism law to detain Miranda (had he been transiting the US, they wouldnt have needed to use the transparently false claim of terrorism they can and do subject people to this treatment for no reason all the time). Does this mean the US and UK are both treating the investigation into the leak of classified information as terrorism now? If so, does that mean the US is using its counterterrorism authorities to investigate Greenwald and Snowden? Have they used the dragnet database to find their contacts? That might explain why they apparently used the FISA Court<http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/15/when-the-fisa-court-becomes-the-exotic-surveillance-shop/> not an Title III warrant to go after Lavabit. But it significantly discredits both their effort to counter Greenwald and their counterterrorism efforts. If theyll use terrorism to prevent further embarrassment, its really just a tool to go after dissidents. Two more thoughts. First, remember that someone already stole a laptop from Greenwalds home in Rio. I thought it unlikely then that the US or an ally did so. I think the chances are slightly higher now. Also, I wonder how Dilma Rousseff will respond to this, especially with growing actions in Brazil against US spying. She had been moving away from the sphere of the Bolivarists in Latin America (and has a US state visit planned for this fall). But the British just treated a Brazilian citizen with the same kind of egregious treatment Europe gave to Evo Morales. Will she respond? Update: In Glenns piece on this<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa>, he makes it clear that fairly high level Brazilian officials were involved in this, and none too happy about it. I immediately contacted the Guardian, which sent lawyers to the airport, as well various Brazilian officials I know. Within the hour, several senior Brazilian officials were engaged and expressing indignation over what was being done. The Guardian has the full story here<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow> . Despite all that, five more hours went by and neither the Guardians lawyers nor Brazilian officials, including the Ambassador to the UK in London, were able to obtain any information about David. Update: Heres the statement<http://www.itamaraty.gov.br/sala-de-imprensa/notas-a-imprensa/retencao-de-nacional-brasileiro-em-londres/view> the Brazilian government has released. The Brazilian government expresses grave concern about the episode that happened today in London, where a Brazilian citizen was held without communication at Heathrow airport for 9 hours, in an action based in the British anti-terrorism legislation. This measure is without justification since it involves an individual against whom there are no charges that can legitimate the use of that legislation. 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