<nettime> Diffuse Political Illegality

[Jamie King <jamie@jamie.com>]

Dearest Nettimers

http://www.metamute.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=24&NrSection=5&NrArticle=826&ST_max=0

A brief _href_ to appraise you of political developments over the last
couple of days in Italy: this piece on Metamute analyses the recently released
Pisanu parliamentary report on 'Internal and International Terrorism',
linking groups of the social movement - in particular the Disobedienti - to
terrorism.

The category of 'Diffuse Political Illegality' set up by the report bares
particular attention. The Italian executive is on one hand writing itself a
mandate to decide who does and does not fall within the so-called
'network of terror': now, activists and dissenters are 'internal
terrorists'. On the other, it is removing the traditional power of the
judiciary to check its excesses. This is a formula that we will
doubtless see repeated across Europe in the 'long haul' of the WoT.

http://www.metamute.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=24&NrSection=5&NrArticle=826&ST_max=0

(This article also links to a commissioned translation of the
Disobedienti's reponse to the Pisanu report.)

Regards,

Jamie 

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Jamie King                     mailto:jamie@jamie.com

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