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Taking liberties with information以自由与信息 Saturday, November 29th, 2008 星期六, 2008年一十一月二十九日
FT 金融时报 | So much for parliamentary privilege: Damian Green, the frontbench Conservative MP for Ashford, was arrested this week and held for nine hours for his part in leaking official documents to the press. |这么多议员的特权:达米安绿色的frontbench保守党议员的阿什福德,被逮捕,并在本周举行的9个小时,他参加正式文件泄露给新闻界。 The police’s absurd over-reaction shows a lack of understanding of political sensitivities in relation to freedom of information.警方荒谬的过度反应显示出缺乏了解政治敏感性与信息自由。 The government is right to investigate leaks.政府有权调查泄漏。 Given the sensitivity of materials in the Home Office, police involvement can be appropriate.鉴于敏感材料的家庭办公室,警察参与可以是适当的。 In this case, however, there were no security implications.在这种情况下,然而,没有安全问题。 The mole should simply have been subject to internal disciplinary procedures.鼹鼠只应受到内部纪律处分程序。 But the police force has, not for the first time, used political offences as a pretext for showing off.但是,警察部队,而不是第一次,使用政治罪行为借口来炫耀。 As with the “cash for honours” investigation into whether parties sold positions in the House of Lords to donors, the police have delighted in dramatic, empty gestures.至于“现金换爵位”的调查是否出售方的立场在上议院向捐助者,警方已戏剧性高兴的,空洞的姿态。 Mr Green was arrested on the common-law offence of suspicion of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office; among other things, this would require proving that the leaks he was involved with were damaging to the commonweal.格林先生被逮捕的普通法罪行,涉嫌串谋犯失当行为的公职;除其他事项外,这将需要证明他是漏水参与了有损于公益。 Some of the exposés were trivial, some showed up ministerial incompetence.一些暴露了琐碎,有些出现部长级无能。 None was against the public interest.没有人对公共利益。 Revelations like Mr Green’s are what we demand of our official opposition politicians; they are self-evidently a public good.启示格林先生一样的是我们的要求我们的官方反对派政治家,他们是自我显然是公共利益。 Ministers adamantly deny knowing that Mr Green was going to be arrested for doing his job.部长们坚决否认知道格林先生会被逮捕做他的工作。 Maybe so, but they must explain how an internal leak inquiry ended with arresting an MP for such a ridiculous offence.或许如此,但他们必须解释如何泄漏的内部调查结束时逮捕一名议员这样一个可笑的罪行。 The Metropolitan Police Authority, the body to which the London police force answers, will need to ask tough questions about why this was allowed to happen.首都警察当局,机构,伦敦警察部队的答案,将需要问棘手的问题,为什么这是不允许发生的。 Boris Johnson, mayor of London, chairs the body and advised against the action.鲍里斯约翰逊,伦敦市长,椅子的尸体,并建议对行动。 There must be genuine accountability for police forces.必须有真正的问责制的警察部队。 Mr Green’s experience has also highlighted part of the common law that needs reform.格林先生的经验,还强调部分共同法律,需要改革。 Charges of the same offence were dropped only this week against a local journalist in Milton Keynes.收费的同一罪行是只丢了这个星期对当地记者在米尔顿凯恩斯。 Her offence had been to find out from a helpful policeman whether a local footballer would be charged with an offence.她的罪行已找出从一个有用的警察是否有当地足球将被落案控以一项罪行。 She escaped only because of protections offered by the European Human Rights Act.她逃到不仅是因为提供的保护欧洲人权法。 Governments must be jealous of giving the police too much power and of vague, open-ended offences.各国政府必须珍惜给予警察权力过大和含糊,不限成员名额的罪行。 Unaccountable police forces with such loosely defined prerogatives are a menace to liberty.不负责任的警察部队等特权松散的定义是一个威胁的自由。 But there is little reason to hope that this administration will recognise this.但有什么理由希望这一政府将认识到这一点。 The draconian anti-terror legislation it has introduced alone has given the police so much power that it has been used to detain an elderly heckler at the Labour party conference, stop protests and, last month, to freeze the assets of Icelandic banks.在严厉的反恐怖立法,推出了仅给了警察如此重要的权力,它已被用来扣留老人共和党人在劳工党的会议,停止抗议活动,并在上个月,以冻结其资产的冰岛银行。 The government must stop making free with civil liberties.政府必须停止免费的公民自由。 Have Your Say: Taking liberties with information 你说:以自由的信息 Please read our请仔细阅读我们的 posting guidelines before posting张贴在发布前的指导方针 . 。 Alternatively或者 you can discuss this report here你可以讨论这份报告在这里 . 。 One Response to “Taking liberties with information”一个响应“以信息自由”
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Damian Green voted for all the so called Anti-Terror ledgeslation and sat by watching our civil liberties wasting away, whilst thinking he was above being burnt by it.达米安绿色投票赞成所有所谓的反恐怖ledgeslation和坐在看我们的公民自由浪费了,而他是思想上面被烧死了它。 I’m glad he was arrested, perhaps henseforth he will not be so ready to give up our freedoms - the berk!我很高兴他被逮捕,也许henseforth他不会那么准备放弃我们的自由-的伯克!