Foreign food for thought

A graduate student at my university, who is from Germany, recently posted this message. I thought it interesting, especially as it betrays the expectations of German law....

Quote:
"Does your country have a high standard of human and civil rights?
Find out now with the following check-list!

(1) Any longer detainment is subject to discretion of a justice.
(2) Courts can only be established by law (and not, for example, by
military order).
(3) A suspected or accused person is assumed innocent until proven
guilty by an impartial court.
(4) Law determines, which court a person is brought in front of, and not
the administration or the military.
(5) Only a court can declare an organization a terroristic organization.
(6) A person can only be punished for something, if and only to the
extend it was punishable by law at the time the person did it.
(7) It is possible to appeal against the decision of a court in front of
a higher court."

END Quote.