WSJ: Europe Toughens Up - How do you say "Patriot Act" in Italian and German?

...Worries of an imminent attack are particularly acute in Italy. A recent poll by the daily Corriere della Sera found that more than 80% of Italians believe that terrorists could strike within months. Since the London attacks, Rome has granted to the military search powers that previously were reserved for police. It has broadened law enforcement's scope by doubling, to 24 hours, the amount of time suspects can be detained and by making telephone and Internet records more accessible to investigators, among other measures. Police will spend more time carrying out raids against terror suspects--authorities made 200-plus raids in one week shortly after July 7--and will keep closer tabs on suspicious mosques. Italians who think their vulnerability is the result of their participation in the Iraq war should look no further than Germany, which opposed the war yet feels compelled to step up its security. Interior Minister Otto Schily has been outspoken about his belief that Islamic terrorists are at war not just with the U.S. and its allies in Iraq but with Western society in general. Mr. Schily has called for increased search and detention powers in cases involving terror suspects who are known to be a threat but who haven't yet committed a crime.

Throughout Europe, there has been good cooperation between national intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and the European Union has pledged to seek ways of strengthening this cooperation. Yet Germany and other nations are finding that they still struggle to coordinate the work of various police forces within their own borders. Solving this problem could be the most important step in improving Continent-wide security.

Of course, the old-time religion of appeasement hasn't completely disappeared. Mr. Schily's proposals have been compared to Nazi-era tactics by leading members of the Green Party....

Yeah, I love the way Lefties make the Patiot Act (which *does* sunset) out to be some huge infringement on our rights, when the same lefties are the ones continually trying to gut the 2nd, and whose SCJ allies just gutted a chunk of the 5th.

No hypocricy there, nosiree.

Enjoy your likely-short stay.

While the ones on the right are trying to keep the Commerce Clause all-inclusive, destroy the 4th, and under pretext of being for the 2nd, trying themselves to gut it.

"Patriot acts" wouldn't be necessary in either Europe or America if it weren't for mass immigration (colonization) that the WSJ has been pressing for decades. Multiracial, muticultural societies (internal empires actually) are violent and unstable by their very nature and require a police state just to keep the lid on things.

Absolutist interpretation of free-speech rights, with no injunction against "shouting fire in a crowded theater," has protected extremists such as Mr. Qatada and Omar Bakri Mohammed, who recently fled Britain after two decades of preaching hatred and violence.

That has an ominous ring to it. Many people (all leftists and most upper class elitists like the staff of the WSJ) support multiculturallism precisely because it requires a centralized, authoritarian regime. Terror or ethnic conflict is just an excuse for the fascism they want anyway. In any case, the above statement is a lie. These Muslims weren't protected by an "Absolutist interpretation of free-speech rights", there are no such protections in Britain or anywhere else in Europe. You can go to jail in Britain for politically incorrect speech like racial jokes or legitimate questions on the right of British natives in the face of an invasion. The Imams were protected, to a degree over and above what the natives of Britain can expect, because they weren't white and they weren't Western. Both their presence (their non-whiteness) and their beliefs (their hatred of the West) served as a tool in the war of genocidal racism the elite of Britain (and every other state in the West) is waging against its own people.

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