By akademiotoelektronik, 22/10/2022

Can we have both freedom and security?

The declaration swallowed the time of a buzz.She still cost her author the vice-president of her party.On May 30, 2021, a few weeks before the regional elections, the deputy Les Républicains Guillaume Peltier pleads for the establishment of a "court of security of the Republic".Its principle: to place in retention of the people who are on radicalization, on the basis of "proven and concrete suspicions" and "without the possibility of appealing".The law makes the thing unthinkable?What does it matter!It would be subject to referendum, even if it means "temporarily leaving" from the European Convention on Human Rights.The elected LR, long inserted at the National Rally (RN), wanted to precipitate the advent of a predictive police, capable of punishing the offense before commission?Like the penal system in force in Minority Report, the news of Philip K.Dick and its adaptation to the cinema by Steven Spielberg?

Unnecessary demagoguery or dangerous cynicism?In any case, the reactions to this outing have hardly slowed down a political climate boosted in the slogan "Security, the first of freedoms", hidden by the historic founder of RN Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1992.On the contrary, the theme beat the campaign of elections to the regional and departmental councils, which nevertheless do not have competence in this area.The "first of freedoms" has a good back, when it is also invoked in the name of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen where it does not appear!What if, despite its totalitarian accents, the slip (controlled or not) of the Peltier deputy only pushed a security obsession into the extreme manners?The hypothesis is held.

For four decades, in fact, the issue of security has aroused increasingly repressive public policies.He even destabilized a legal ordering built in principle to guarantee the exercise of fundamental freedoms identifying a democracy: that of coming and coming, meeting, demonstrating or informing, informing and expressing himself.All these freedoms have seen their space to restrict themselves again in the course of the emergency states imposed by the fight against terrorism then the pandemic of COVVI-19.