EUParliament:Investigate+Criminalize Web Spying!CoE:Protect Whistleblowers! But X States:N0 Snowden?

*Strasbourg/EU Parliament/-  An astonishing Contradiction inside Europe apeared on the most Topical Global issue of these days, affecting both EU Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, as well as EU's own Independence and Security, when EU Parliament's plenary adopted, Today in Strasbourg, with an overwhelming Majority, 3 important Resolutions which seek also to (1) Criminalize and punish all "Attacks against Information Systems", (2) strongly denounce, and ask for an efficient Investigation on "USA's NSA Surveillance programme, .. and impact on EU Citizens' Privacy", as well as to (3) support EU's "Autonomy" on the Digital World, (as EU Commissioner Michel Barnier stressed earlier), also by "completing the EU's Digital Market",

while, at the same time, nevertheless, the Whistleblower who tiggered a series of Popular and Political Reactions Worldwide after risking his person by openly revealing the infamous US Global Internet Spying system "PRISM", Ed. Snowden, (who is also, obviously, the Witness No 1 in any really efficient Investigation in the foreseable Future), was ...bluntly Refused any Asylum by a couple of EU Governments, including that of France, and even Bolivian President Morales' personal Airplane was brutally Blocked, at the last minute, by several Refusals to authorize it to cross the National Airspace of some EU Countries, including, mainly, again France, at the last minute, etc., provoking Unprecedented Anti-French Protests from Bolivian People, a rain of Criticism by various International Organizations, etc.!

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MEPs, however, voted, this Thursday Noon in Strasbourg, for all these topical and practically interconnected Resolutions, with Strong Majorities of more or less a ....5 to 1 proportion, such as 541 Votes in favour, against only 91, and Zero Abstentions for the first, as well as 483 Votes for, against only 93, and 65 Abstentions for the second, (etc).... 

 

The "Inquiry" deided by EU Parliament must conclude in a comprehensive Report "before the End of the (2013) Year", and extends to any undue State spying on legitimate Internet users.

+ Meanwhile, MEPs from at least 3 different Political parties :  Marie-Christine Vergiat (Left), Jannick Jadot (Greens) and Bruno Gollnish (FN), etc., strongly criticized French a.o. Governments' refusal to give political Asylum to Snowden, and fustigated the above-mentioned brutal attempts to even violently Block Airspace Access to planes suspected to try to rescue him, (Comp. Supra) : an act which was denounced as "Servile" by BG. and others...

                                                                                                                                                                                              

Curiously, the unexpected negative behavior of some EU Governments also comes shortly after another, landmark CoE Resolution, already adopted a Week or so earlier by the competent Committee of the PanEuropean Parliamentary Assembly of this other Strasbourg-Headquartered Organization for Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law, had just called to "Protect" from retaliation "WistleBlowers" (like Snowden), "who disclose any such State Wrongdoing, in the public interest ...provided they acted in good faith and followed procedures".

 According to the CoE, "the report’s author, Spanish MEP Arcadio Díaz Tejera, "said the Wikileaks revelations did not seem to have caused any serious ...damage: - “I therefore consider the Extreme Severity with which the US authorities are treating Mr Manning, the young soldier who seems to be the ‘Source’ of these Leaks, as most Inappropriate"  : A development which obviously speaks in favor of finding a way to protect Snowden...

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=> But the most nasty could come later-on : By pressing for an Urgent, Comprehensive and Efficient Investigation on Internet Spying etc. by Governments, particularly Foreign, while also strengthening the Criminalisation of various relevant "Attacks" against Internet systems,, (Comp. Supra), EU Parliament, also, inevitably opens a way, ipso-facto, for ... Prosecuting any Criminal Responsibility  of all those who might, eventually, Obstruct, or Delay too much, Snowden's unique Testimony, obviously risking to Destroy precious Evidence of Crimes !