Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 14:40:22 +1000 From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net> Subject: Berliner declaration The Berlin Declaration The war on terrorism does not work. Every week, there are new reports of bombings and hostage-taking in different parts of the world - Moscow, Bali, Mombassa... The war on terrorism cannot work. It cannot work because terrorism is a crime, the expression of a new type of global privatised violence. The word 'war' dignifies the terrorist as an 'enemy' instead of a criminal. It polarises the world between 'us' and 'them', which is just what the terrorists want. It inflicts further violence on innocent people and nurtures feelings of hate and revenge that lead to terrorism. We are on the verge of an escalating process of world-wide violence, something akin to the Israel-Palestine conflict on a global scale. This impending cycle of destruction might include the possibility of the use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, further genocidal crimes, unpredictable acts of terrorism, not to mention more US 'pre-emptive strikes', which will turn out to be counter-productive strikes. more at this link: http://www.berlin-declaration.org/ Hugh
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