Affront against basic rights
„The government is making a big mistake through the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA)-act” says Jan Korte, member of the board of the party DIE LINKE. He declares:
This act is a major offensive against the basic rights. It is disproportional because the government wants to concede snooping-powers to the BKA which would by that be transformed into a German FBI.
The BKA is supposed to get more than 30 of these powers as online-search, bugging-operation or the observation of flats per video.
BKA-officials are to become the right to secretly break into apartments. The nucleus of the private, defined by the Constitutional Court, is turning into a farce because the BKA could save and analyse all data.
The act should be condemned: democracy and constitutional state do not fit with a secret police the way Schäuble (Minister of the Interior) wants it. I am appealing to the few colleagues of the Social Democratic Party who are sceptical of the law, to support the motion of the party DIE LINKE, which demands a stop of all observation-acts as well as the basic evaluation of the already enacted laws.