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Together in Sorrow, Looking at the Future

November 2015 by La Quadrature du Net

Together with the people from France and from all
around the
world, La Quadrature du Net mourns the dead. After the attacks on Friday 13 November
in Paris
and Saint-Denis, the group is committed to contribute to a political response that
is based on a
careful assessment of what has led us to this tragedy.

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Friday 13 November, criminal acts of astounding violence hit Paris, striking French
society at
its core. La Quadrature du Net’s board and operational team wish to express their
condolences to
the victims’ loved-ones and share their deep sorrow.

Obviously, France is no longer safe from the massacres occurring on a daily basis in
many parts
of the world, in particular in the Middle East. In the face of such a tragedy, we
must now take
a hard look at reality and not be afraid of facing the complex causes that led to
these events.
It would be completely absurd and simply ineffective to react with more emergency
measures and
new generalised restrictions to civil rights.

Unfortunately, given recent political statements, we fear that the only response
will lie in
further bombings in the Middle-East and the escalation of security measures evermore
harmful to
fundamental rights. But when will we take the time to carefully analyse the failed
policies
carried on for the past fifteen years on a global scale, and through dozens of laws
in France?

In the light of the declaration of the state of emergency and of political
statements made over
the weekend, La Quadrature du Net solemnly asks political leaders to take the time
to reflect
and engage in a rigorous, critical and transparent evaluation of France’s
international,
diplomatic, military, geo-strategic and commercial commitments; to think about the
strategy of
intelligence services and to complete a thorough examination of their workings; to
defeat a
warmongering rhetoric drive us towards a "clash of civilisations" doubled with an
internal civil
conflict within our society; to also address the tensions that ripple through French
society,
the identity-related tensions stirred by a part of the political and media elite,
the shared
responsibilities into the largely misunderstood phenomenon of violent
radicalisation, the
dissolving of perspectives for social progress.

La Quadrature du Net defends fundamental rights and liberties in the digital sphere.
If today we
are inviting a debate on issues that might seem removed from our usual concerns, it
is because
we are convinced that they directly affect the very conditions of citizenship, of
peace, and are
currently largely missing from the public debate. We are also convinced that freedom
and
security are mutually reinforcing.

To overcome these challenges, we are calling for a collective, wide-ranging
reflection. These
debates must be carried out transparently vis-à-vis citizens and must draw from the
expressions,
doubts, criticisms, hopes and expectations of all, without fear.

In one word, we are calling for more democracy.


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