Paddy Woodworth's crappy talk

international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Thursday September 09, 2004 18:06 by Someone

Paddy woodworth gave a dissapointing talk on terrorism at UL this afternoon as part of the ACIS conference.

Basically, he critizises State Terrorism (as PSOE's GAL in Spain, i.e.) as an unfortunate fall down on terrorist revolutionaries (ignoring that revolutionary groups react against State terrorism -or abuse of power, if you prefer to call it like that- in the first place), claiming that the cut down on human rights that results from the State repression to 'terrorism' is a success for 'terrorists'! It is obvious that only those who cut down our human rights benefit from it! (certainly not the revolutionaries who fight for the right to self-determintion and against imperialism). I think Michael Moore explains very well how the cut down on human rights benefits the power apparatus of the State in his documentary 'Bowling for Columbine'. Basically, Woodworth pretends to criticize the State's 'wrong-doing' to finally stand by it. No mention of ongoing torture by Spanish Police to Basques deteinees, no mention of the fight for the right to self-determination... No mention of the structural problems that lead to all the violence (capitalism has nothing to do with democracy) Sorry for the cursing, but I believe he is just a sanctioned and convenient 'bullshitter'.