The government's latest proposals for more public space monitoring – the so-called security package – now have the Unity List propose that a Freedom Commission be set up.

The Commission must review all anti-terrorism legislation adopted since 2001 and point to interference with freedoms which prove unnecessary or disproportionate and which can be rolled back. "They always justify this with an acute situation and a question of the security of the kingdom here and now, when politicians have to argue for interference with freedoms. But no one has dared to assess the impact of their own actions. We will now," says Pernille Skipper, the Unity List's political spokesman. Pernille Skipper, The Unity List's political rapporteur, says:– It's almost a clockwork. There is a terrible attack at home or outside the world, and immediately afterwards politicians are proposing austerity, interventions and harsher penalties. Often without concrete and sufficient knowledge of the tragic events and the impact of the actions being proposed. But common to all of them has been that they are stuttering a piece of our freedoms.– Since the terrorist attacks in 2001, a myriad of austerity measures have been carried out, all of which should aim to stop the terrorists and organised criminals. Many of them were strongly criticised by their introduction for stepping on fundamental freedoms and taking a small chunk more of the democracy that was intended to protect. Police and intelligence services are being extended, monitoring increases and our freedom of expression is being curtailed.– It does not take much courage to propose another tightening, yet another power for police and intelligence services, another one monitoring package and so on. But it really takes political courage to go back systematically, looking at what turned out to be without it. We will look at what has worked, what has not worked and where we can extend freedoms for once. My claim is that much legislation on the occasion of horrific terrorist attacks and great gang wars has happened in blind and almost political desperation. But even if you don't want to think so, you have to be able to see the wisdom of evaluating and reassessing. Especially when it comes to measures that have taken a chunk of our freedoms, one must be sure that it has not been in vain. Unity List proposal: The Unity List will set up a Freedom Commission. The Commission is to review all anti-terrorism legislation adopted and implemented since 2001, when the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in the United States triggered the first streak of intervention. The Commission must also include so-called gang packages and anti-radicalisation legislation. The Commission must provide an overview of the legislation which has restricted fundamental freedoms to a greater or lesser extent, including freedom of expression and freedom of information, freedom of assembly, the right to a fair trial and the right to Privacy. The Commission must assess the impact of the interventions in relation to the prevention and investigation of terrorist attacks, the impact on freedoms, including so-called 'chilling effect' and proportionality of the interventions. At the same time, the Commission must make recommendations on what interventions can be rolled back or adjusted in order to strike a better balance for freedoms. For example, the Commission must assess the rules on logging of telecommunications data, PET's access to obtain information from public authorities, secret searches, transparency in the administration of justice. terrorism cases, so-called imam laws, the terrorism provisions of the Criminal Code and, in particular, the provisions on "the approval of terrorism", residence bans and double sentences rules in certain residential areas, and burka bans.