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1. Nick Pendergrast

3.  Desire a single Islamic state - a
caliphate - uniting all Muslim
countries, then the entire world.
 Leaflets, brochures and books.
 Since it's founding in 1953, Hizb ut
Tahrir has been restricted to
peaceful political means – a track
record of non-violence.
 No financial support to other groups
engaged in terrorism.
 Michael O'Hanlon (Washington-
based Brookings Institution):
‘Hateful speech that inspires or
condones terrorism is itself
terroristic.’
 The group's leaflet was found at the
family home of Omar Sharif, the
British man who launched a failed
suicide attack in Tel Aviv.
 Parramatta shooter possibly heard a
Hizb ut-Tahrir lecture the day of the
shooting.
 People have left the group and got
involved in violent groups.
 Could turn violent.
Michael Brull ‘The Politics Of Freedom And Hypocrisy: Who's Afraid Of Hizb Ut-

4.  Lowkey’s home was raided and
subsequently he was banned from
entering the borough of Westminster
and the city of London during the
royal wedding, as conditions of his
bail.
 CW lyrics and my talk: suicide,
torture, bombings, war etc.
 CW graphic images.
 Lowkey ‘Terrorist’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km
BnvajSfWU

5.  ‘So what's a terrorist?’
 Difficulty in defining terrorism.
 ‘Rather read The Sun than study all the facts.’
 Media’s role in defining terrorism.
 ‘What they did in Hiroshima was terrorism,
What they did in Fallujah was terrorism,’
 State terrorism?
 ‘I guess it's all just depending who your nemesis is.’
 ‘I'm all about peace and love.’
 ‘Mandela ANC – that was terrorism.’
 Broad definition of terrorism – dissidents.

6.  A clear definition of a “terrorist” remains elusive – deeply contested.
 ‘The term ‘terrorist’ has expanded to the point that it just means ‘my enemy,’” said
Marc Sageman, an ex-CIA agent, psychiatrist and author. “So we see things from
our own perspective -- if one of us: freedom fighter, if one of them: terrorist.’
 Sarah Marsden, a lecturer at the University of Saint Andrews’ Handa Centre for
the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence: the use of the word has grown
increasingly “subjective.”
 Many groups are seen by some as terrorists but by others as engaging in a
liberation struggle eg legitimate political violence against colonialism?
 The social construction of terrorism: ‘The widespread use of ‘terrorism/terrorist,’
led by the media and politicians, consolidated it as a term used to describe
enemies of all kinds.’
‘Terrorist: Two centuries after the term first appeared, a clear definition remains
elusive’

7.  Finsbury Park terrorist attack.
 Charleston shooting (2015): Dylann Roof killed nine
people at a historic African-American South Carolina
church.
 Politically motivated?
 Posed in front of a car with a front plate that reads
"Confederate States of America”.
 Roof: 'I have to do it…You're taking over our country. And
you have to go.’
 Sectors of media and politics:
 Violence by black and Muslim people is systemic, demanding
response and action from all who share their race or religion.
 Narrow framing of terrorism applying only to ‘Muslims driven by
political grievances against the West’ (Glenn Greenwald).
For more on these issues, you can see my article ‘Malcolm Turnbull Benches Team Australia, But
Will The Narrative On Terrorism Change?’

8. Media’s Role

9.  US Department of State's definition of terrorism excludes any acts of terrorism
committed by governments against populations and confines terrorism to acts of
political violence by non-state actors (Aly).
 ‘The United Nations' definition of terrorism excludes any reference to state
terrorism’ (Aly).
 ‘Governments that commit acts of terror against their citizens also have the power
to denounce any accusations of terrorism and to suppress any form of revolution
by denouncing any opposition as dissident terrorism’ (Aly).
Aly, A. (2011) ‘Terrorism Then and Now’ in Terrorism and Global Security: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives. Melbourne: Palgrave Macmillan, Chapter 2, 26-55.

10.  ‘State terrorism is often thought to be mostly prevalent in third-world countries
that do not have a democratic political system and where the poor masses are
governed by corrupt regimes’ (Aly).
 BUT the US (Aly):
 Imprisonment of hundreds of terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay without charge.
 The revelations of torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib by US forces.
 The extraordinary rendition laws, which enabled the secret apprehension and illegal
transfer of suspects to hidden locations.
 Complicit in several state terrorism cases by providing support for the establishment of
terrorist regimes in Cambodia, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, Iran, the Taliban in
Afghanistan and the Indonesians in East Timor. This support ranged from providing
training for military forces to the provision of intelligence to the use of torture.
 Airstrike on a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Afghanistan.
Aly, A. (2011) ‘Terrorism Then and Now’ in Terrorism and Global Security: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives. Melbourne: Palgrave Macmillan, Chapter 2, 26-55.

11.  ‘Because domestic terrorism occurs within state borders, what constitutes
domestic terrorism is usually determined by each nation's definition of terrorism.
In some countries a very broad definition of terrorism that includes any form of
protest against the state could, effectively, be applied to many acts of civil
disobedience’ (Ally).
 Eg environmental and animal liberation activists.
Aly, A. (2011) ‘Terrorism Then and Now’ in Terrorism and Global Security: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives. Melbourne: Palgrave Macmillan, Chapter 2, 26-55.

12.  Amy Meyer saw a sick cow being pushed by a bulldozer outside a slaughterhouse and
filmed it.
 Even though she stood on public property, charged with violating a new law in Utah
that makes it illegal to photograph/videotape factory farms and slaughterhouses.
 Uproar = charges dropped.
 1st prosecution of its kind in the US, but if the agriculture industry has its way, it
won't be the last.
 "Ag-gag" laws have spread rapidly, and today half a dozen states have made it illegal
to film factory farms.
 Senator David Hinkins, the sponsor of Utah's ag-gag bill, said it was needed to stop
"terrorists" such as "the vegetarian people" who "are trying to kill the animal
industry".
 Beef Magazine: HSUS are ‘terrorists’ like ISIS.
 FBI files have revealed that the government has even considered prosecuting those
who film animal cruelty as "terrorists".
Will Potter ‘Revised law could turn animal activists into terrorists’.

13.  NSW Minister for Primary Industries
Katrina Hodgkinson described
undercover investigators as vandals,
and "akin to terrorists". Similar
comments from others eg George
Christensen from the National party.
 Federal Ag-gag: Criminal Code
Amendment (Animal Protection) Bill
2015.
 Status: before Senate.
 ‘Insert new offences in relation
to…interference with the conduct of
lawful animal enterprises’.
 NSW: Biosecurity Bill 2015.
 Status: passed.
 Defence against some offences under
the Act if you carry biosecurity matter
‘in the ordinary course of business’.Will Potter ‘Revised law could
turn animal activists into
terrorists’. For more on ag-gag laws in Australia, see: Mike
Rosalky: ‘Animals and Law—An Overview’.

14.  Anyone who challenges or keeps from making profit the lumber, cattle, dairy or
vivisection industries.
 Taking pictures, protesting logging companies, or sitting in front of bulldozers.
 Will Potter: Hardly anyone there when the bill was passed – were celebrating
Martin Luther King Day – while the form of activism he advocated was being
criminalised.

15.  Liberate animals from places of
abuse.
 Inflict economic damage on those
who profit from the exploitation of
animals.
 Reveal atrocities committed against
animals.
 Take all precautions against
harming any animal, human and
non-human.
 ALF and ELF: $82,752,700 in
property damage.
 No one physically injured or killed by
actions.

16.  Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (3rd edn) 1995
 Violence: ‘behaviour that is intended to hurt other people physically’ (page 1 596).
 Violent: 1.ACTION – ‘involving actions that are intended to injure or kill people, by
hitting them, shooting them etc.’
 2. PERSON – ‘likely to attack, hurt, or kill other people’ (page 1 596).
 Psychological harm?
 Documentary: If a Tree Falls.

17.  Overlooks threats which actually
target people eg right-wing/neo-Nazi
terrorism:
 A recent report prepared for
Congress by the Government
Accountability Office: ‘Of the 85
violent extremist incidents that
resulted in death since September
12, 2001, far-right wing violent
extremist groups were responsible
for 62 (73 percent)’ – 106 people
killed.

19. Glasser, C. L. 2011 ‘Moderates and Radicals Under Repression: The U.S. Animal Rights Movement, 1990-
2010’, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine.
If a Tree Falls (48.17-49.15, 1.12.10/1.15.49-1.16.23):
property destruction, arson, crime.

20.  ‘…I dislike the “terrorism”
terminology’.
 Much that is labelled as terrorism
should be condemned as war
crimes/crimes against
humanity/torture/genocide.
 ‘ “Terrorism” is a slippery term – much
used by governments in order to
condemn their political opponents,
including peaceful dissent.’
 ‘Its sister term, “counter-terrorism”, is
equally slippery.
 Labelling actions “counter-terrorism”
can mean governments get away with
war crimes and crimes against
humanity without condemnation.
‘Those first casualties: Stephen Keim SC speech at the Moorooka Mosque’

21.  Glasser, C. L. 2011 ‘Moderates and Radicals Under Repression: The U.S. Animal
Rights Movement, 1990-2010’, Department of Sociology, University of California,
Irvine.
 Carol Glasser’s talk “The Radical Debate: A Straw Man in the Movement?” – played on
Animal Voices podcast.
 Will Potter: greenisthenewred.com
 If a Tree Falls documentary.
 www.ProgressivePodcastAustralia.com
 ICAS 2016: Episode 152.
 Mike Rosalky: ‘Animals and Law—An Overview’.