Tolerating Terrorism in the West: An International Survey
Language: English
Pages: 196
ISBN: 1138985724
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This insightful text examines the widely varying attitudes to terrorist attack in Western government and society. The focal point of the book is the ideological gap between the moral reaction to terrorism and the military and political response that follows. Rather than there being a predictable response, a spectrum of possible outcomes emerges. Using this variety of reactions from support for terrorist aims through to outright condemnation, a middle ground may be established between individual rights and security for the many.
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prosecutions were carried out and the methods of executing sentence. 40 Tolerating terrorism in the west LANGUAGE AS AN OPERATIONAL TOOL The three campaign leaflets that Horst Mahler and Ulrike Meinhof published for the RAF between April 1971 and November 1972, and which accompanied and justified the first acts of violence by the Baader-Meinhof Gang, are today still the definitive framework of the strategic concept of the RAF.8 They are embedded in a language that to a very great extent can
image had its importance, and consequently a race to appear more receptive and more far-sighted began.11 There are many kinds of allegations against the political class, and there are of course answers from the political class rejecting every responsibility. For instance, the Parliamentary committee on the pseudo-Masonic lodge P2 stated ‘the P2 lodge is seriously implicated in the Italicus massacre and can be considered even responsible in historical and political (not legal) terms, because it
banished from education. Teaching in schools was taken over by teachers from other parts of the country; children were not even allowed to communicate with one another in their mother tongue. In other words, the regime left no stone unturned in its efforts to exterminate regional cultures and to crush any instance of nationalist resistance. How did the minority population react to this threat to its existence? The resistance and the will to survive mainly manifested themselves in three ways.3 The
Notre Dame Press, 1967; A.Ranney and G.Sartori, Eurocommunism: The Italian Case, Washington, D.C.: The American Enterprise Institution, 1978; and G.Sartori, Teoria dei partiti e caso italiano, Milan: SugarCo, 1982. 33. D.Della Porta and S.Tarrow, ‘Unwanted children: Political Violence and the Cycle of Protest in Italy’, European Journal of Political Research, 14, 5–6, 1986, pp. 607–32. 34. See A.Pizzorno, ‘Terrorismo e quadro politico’, Mondo operaio, XXXI, 1978, 4, pp. 5–18. 35. Ledeen, M.,
hand nationalist parties, active within the Basque region, are obviously gaining ground opposite the Spanish oriented ones. While the PNV at the time of the Second Republic (1931–6) received on average only a third of the votes alongside the strong all-Spanish parties, the number voting for Basque parties has meanwhile increased to almost two-thirds of the total voting population, and the result of this development cannot be foreseen. This, which would be the second trend, is largely dependent on
