End restrictions, clean-up security tampering and avert the suspicion of being a police state

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THE political leadership’s directives to the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled to lift the security restrictions on citizens, and his speedy response to this matter, was a source of joy for all Kuwaitis and others who have suffered for decades from restrictions placed on them either intentionally or based on a mere suspicion without an investigation report and a court order.

This is the civil state that Kuwaitis have been seeking, and these are the honorable ministers who are working for their country.

Stability cannot prevail in any society if a good percentage of its people suffer from obstacles in exercising their constitutionally stipulated rights. No institution can operate according to the law if there are those who take advantage of their positions and powers to harm others.

In the past decades, there has been a deaf policy such that those who set it up do not realize the extent of the injustice they inflict on people.

Such injustices could have occurred on a mere suspicion of a person just because he passed in front of an embassy of a country whose relations with Kuwait are tense, or accidentally and unintentionally met with one of the diplomats working in it. A security restriction could have also been placed on a citizen simply because he posted a “tweet” that a particular official did not like, or he had indicated an error in one of the institutions.

Before this big step, Kuwait was, in text, a state of institutions. However, in content, due to the tampering by some security officials, it resembled a police state that was nothing similar in its history, constitutional texts, laws, customs and traditions.

In all countries of the world, the state and national security help the leadership make the right decisions. In many cases, the public does not know the officials and leaders of this apparatus, until they retire or pass away. In fact, there are security officers in many countries whose identities are not revealed even after their death because of the sensitive roles they played in their given capacities.

In the Third World countries including Kuwait, these security officers turn into stars of society. Some of them do not fear Allah in themselves, their country and people, so they practice the most severe types of corruption, which harms the interests of the state and increases popular resentment against the political system.

In several Arab countries, the state and national security services were a source of undermining security stability. Rather, with their chaos and the dishonesty of their officials, they helped bring down the regime or ignite civil wars.

Therefore, when the trustees assume these positions, they put the supreme interest of their country in mind, and work according to the legal rule “so that a thousand criminals escape and not a single innocent person be convicted.”

And because the judiciary is the basis for the renaissance of societies, leaders relied on it after crises and wars. For example, with the spread of corruption and bribery in Britain during World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, at the time, asked the Minister of Justice, “Has bribery reached the judiciary?” and he replied, “No”. Churchill then said, “Britain is fine then.”

After the liberation of France from the Nazi invasion, de Gaulle asked his friend Andre Marleau, “How is the judiciary?”, and he replied, “It is fine to some extent.” De Gaulle replied, “Then we can rebuild France.”

Based on this fact, the judiciary has been made of three degrees – first instance, appellate and cassation, and even litigation of the judiciary, so that there is no suspicion of injustice to point at if he enjoys integrity, or else he alters the facts and evidence in a bid to seek injustice.

Indeed, thank you to the political leadership, and Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled for this qualitative leap of civilization by lifting the injustice faced by the citizens and residents, who were given relief by a wise and humane leadership and a faithful minister for the task entrusted to him.

Likewise, we appreciate what the Minister of Defense did when he ordered the postponement of the lot for applicants to the Defense Officers Training School until after the elimination of security restrictions so that young cadets are not harmed.

By Ahmed Al-Jarallah

Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times

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