【スポーツ】　冬の風物詩に異変＝大野晃

日本ジャーナリストクラブ（JCJ）
3 months 2 weeks ago
　元旦から、駅伝、サッカー、ラグビーなど屋外競技の日本一争いに熱戦が続いた。 高校、大学、実業団の競い合いで、プロ競技とは違った、ひたむきな奮闘が特徴だった。サッカー全日本選手権とラグビー高校大会はともに１００回目、サッカー高校選手権は９９回目、箱根大学駅伝は９７回目と、長い歴史と伝統を誇る競技会が集中した。 　それは、高校生や大学生、実業団が挑むアマチュア競技が、古くから日本スポーツをリードしてきたことを物語る。寒風をものともせず、沿道やスタンドで声援..
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The Government Has All of the Powers It Needs to Find and Prosecute Those Responsible for the Crimes on Capitol Hill This Week

EFF update
3 months 2 weeks ago

Perpetrators of the horrific events that took place at the Capitol on January 6 had a clear goal: to undermine the legitimate operations of government, to disrupt the peaceful transition of power, and to intimidate, hurt, and possibly kill those political leaders that disagree with their worldview. 

These are all crimes that can and and should be investigated by law enforcement. Yet history provides the clear lesson that immediate legislative responses to an unprecedented national crime or a deeply traumatic incident can have profound, unforeseen, and often unconstitutional consequences for decades to come. Innocent people—international travelers, immigrants, asylum seekers, activists, journalists, attorneys, and everyday Internet users—have spent the last two decades contending with the loss of privacy, government harassment, and exaggerated sentencing that came along with the PATRIOT Act and other laws passed in the wake of national tragedies.   

Law enforcement does not need additional powers, new laws, harsher sentencing mandates, or looser restrictions on the use of surveillance measures to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the dangerous crimes that occurred. Moreover, we know from experience that any such new powers will inevitably be used to target the most vulnerable members of society or be used indiscriminately to surveil the broader public. 

EFF has spent the last three decades pushing back against overbroad government powers—in courts, in Congress, and in state legislatures—to demand an end to unconstitutional surveillance and to warn against the dangers of technology being abused to invade people’s rights. To take just a few present examples: we continue to fight against the NSA’s mass surveillance programs, the exponential increase of surveillance power used by immigration enforcement agencies at the U.S. border and in the interior, and the inevitable creep of military surveillance into everyday law enforcement to this day. The fact that we are still fighting these battles shows just how hard it is to end unconstitutional overreactions.

Policymakers must learn from those mistakes. 

First, Congress and state lawmakers should not even consider any new laws or deploying any new surveillance technology without first explaining why law enforcement’s vast, existing powers are insufficient. This is particularly true given that it appears that the perpetrators of the January 6 violence planned, organized, and executed their acts in the open, and that much of the evidence of their crimes is publicly available.

Second, lawmakers must understand that any new laws or technology will likely be turned on vulnerable communities as well as those who vocally and peacefully call for social change. Elected leaders should not exacerbate ongoing injustice via new laws or surveillance technology. Instead, they must work to correct the government’s past abuse of powers to target dissenting and marginalized voices.   

As Representative Barbara Lee said in 2001, “Our country is in a state of mourning. Some of us must say, let’s step back for a moment . . . and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control.” Surveillance, policing, and exaggerated sentencing—no matter their intention—always end up being wielded against the most vulnerable members of society. We urge President-elect Joe Biden to pause and to not let this moment contribute to that already startling inequity in our society. 

Matthew Guariglia

[B] 中国の新型コロナワクチンが発売

日刊ベリタ
3 months 2 weeks ago
国務院共同予防・抑制メカニズムは12月31日、国薬集団中国生物の新型コロナウイル ス不活化ワクチンが、国家薬品監督管理局の承認を受け条件付きで発売されたと 発表した。データによると、その有効率は79.34％で、安全性、有効性、アクセ ス可能性、入手可能性の統一を実現し、世界保健機関（WHO）及び国家薬品監督 管理局の関連基準の要求を満たした。ワクチン免疫の持続性と保護効果について は今後の経過を見守る必要がある。これは得難い成果で、中国の新型コロナワク チン発売は世界が感染症に打ち勝つための自信を与えている。またワクチンを世 界の公共財とするための力強い支えも提供している。（「人民網日本語版」2020年12月後半　抜粋）
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