Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 19:03:16 +0100 From: "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-tiscali.co.uk> Subject: Re: Different approach to terrorist threat Shawn Thanks much appreciated. regards sdv Shawn P. Wilbur wrote: >It looks like the EZLN has avoided terrorist status, as have the rest of >Mexico's insurgent groups. But that could certainly change now, depending >on the needs of the Mexican state, the development of Plan Pueblo-Panama, >the progress of the drug interdiction campaign in the south, pressure from >other nations (such as the US.) Fox had put out a call to negotiate, but i >have heard little about any positive responses. The lesson of the San >Andres Accords probably looms large in the minds of Mexican rebels. > >Columbia may be one of the places to watch for signs of intensification of >"counter-terrorism" aimed at insurgent groups. And, of course, (US) >domestic groups like Earth Liberation Front are starting to find >themselves dealt with in those terms. Action against anti-globalists has >already made use of racketeering statutes. It will be worth watching any >attempts to redefine protest actions further. The Omnibus Counter >Terrorism bill already attempted to redefine some forms of information >dissemination in terms of aid to terrorists. Some of the most significant >threats to domestic freedom in the US could come through the very broad >language being used to characterize such "aid." The with us or against us >approach could get pretty draconian, if given even a few legal >teeth. Maybe it's not such a bad time to be failing as a radical >bookseller... =( > >-shawn > >Shawn P. Wilbur >www.wcnet.org/~swilbur | lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons >www.wcnet.org/~paupers | alwato.iuma.com > > >
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