Yep. Where I live any climate action, or protest of any kind that blocks roads or “disrupts economic activity” can be charged as terror now lol.
We never even had a terror attack here during the GWOT era. Closest we got was an American style mass shooting in the 90s. But we basically got the patriot act without having a 9/11
The extent to which the gwot was a global exercise in crushing dissent and liquidating political opposition is I think not adequately discussed. The whole gwot era was used to massively ramp up state surveilance and political repression in nations around the world. Regimes used it as carte blanch to imprison or kill political enemies with DC’s blessing.
This is an inevitable consequence of the 9/11 overreaction
Yep. Where I live any climate action, or protest of any kind that blocks roads or “disrupts economic activity” can be charged as terror now lol.
We never even had a terror attack here during the GWOT era. Closest we got was an American style mass shooting in the 90s. But we basically got the patriot act without having a 9/11
The extent to which the gwot was a global exercise in crushing dissent and liquidating political opposition is I think not adequately discussed. The whole gwot era was used to massively ramp up state surveilance and political repression in nations around the world. Regimes used it as carte blanch to imprison or kill political enemies with DC’s blessing.