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"By means of this vote, we are now being asked to describe as acts of terrorism what, for us, are acts of solidarity and of justice. For example, ‘interfering with or disrupting the supply of water, power, or other fundamental resource’
Such actions are generally those of salaried employees – of workers, not Bin Ladens – who, threatened by privatisation, organise themselves to defend their conditions of work, their jobs and, indeed, the tools with which they work.
The basis of the proposal is to punish as an act of terrorism anything aimed at threatening ‘and seriously altering or destroying the political, economic, or social structures of a country’, that is to say any questioning of injustice and the established order such as the occupation by the homeless of empty housing or by the unemployed of job centres or of organisations managing unemployment insurance payments or, indeed, European demonstrations against organisations such as the IMF, WTO or the World Bank.
Basically, a measure of this kind would tend to criminalise social activism by bringing fundamental rights into question.
That is why I have not voted in favour of this report, which makes terrorists out of us."@en1
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