Petition: Solidaritet er ikke kriminel

Icon_article Udgivet: Tuesday 18 November 2008 02:26 af Freedom Fighter

Tagget som: & anti-terror farc fighters love lovers
Område: global

The International solidaritet er ikke kriminel / International Solidarity is not an Offence
Petition to Folketinget/The Danish Parliament was created by and written by Martin Spang-Thomsen (bspth@worldonline.dk).

To: Folketinget/The Danish Parliament (Text in english below)

Undertegnede tager afstand fra dommen i Østre Landsret 18. september 2008 over 6 personer med tilknytning til tøjfirmaet Fighters & Lovers for terrorstøtte. Dommen lægger til grund at organisationer, der har civile ofre på samvittigheden - uanset deres mål og aktiviteter i øvrigt - er terror-organisationer. Dermed sættes i praksis lighedstegn imellem modstandskamp og terrorisme, og dommen giver med 65 års forsinkelse den tyske besættelsesmagt ret: den danske modstandsbevægelse under 2. Verdenskrig var terrorister. (Den danske modstandsbevægelse likviderede under besættelsen 3-400 stikkere eller formodede stikkere.)

Dommen går endnu videre ved også at kriminalisere støtte til humanitære organisationer, når organisationerne opererer i et konfliktområde.

I forarbejderne til den danske terrorlov blev der skelnet klart mellem på den ene side terror, og på den anden side modstand mod en besættelse eller en illegitim stat. Denne skelnen fejer Landsretten til side. Den kriminaliserer derved den internationale solidaritet, der de sidste 50 år har været med til sikre afkoloniseringen i den 3. Verden og nedbrydningen af de militærdiktaturer og apartheidregimer, der i perioden har kastet deres skygge over verden. En solidaritet der har været med til at fremme fred og udvikling af demokrati.

Jeg tager klart afstand fra terror, men bekæmpelsen af terror må ikke føre til at retsstatens grundlæggende principper afskaffes. Så har terroristerne først vundet. Folketinget har allerede besluttet, at terrorloven fra 2002 skal evalueres i 2009. Jeg støtter en revision af loven, så den ikke længere anvendes til at kriminalisere international solidaritet i form af humanitære projekter eller støtte til modstandsbevægelser.

Underskrifterne afleveres til Folketinget 1. marts 2009.

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I condemn the ruling of the Danish High Court on September 18th 2008, condemning 6 persons related to the clothing company Fighters & Lovers to prison for the support of Palestinian PFLP and Colombian FARC. The ruling states that an organization that has caused civilian casualties is a terrorist organization, no matter what its objectives or tactics. The ruling equates resistance- and liberation movements with terrorism, and 65 years after the 2nd World War agrees with the German occupying power who stated that the Danish Resistance Movement were terrorists. (The Danish Resistance Movement during the occupation of Denmark in 1940-45 killed 3-400 informers or assumed informers).

But the ruling goes further by also criminalizing support for humanitarian organizations, when these organizations operate in a conflict zone.

The preliminary steps toward the danish "terror legislation" in 2002 kept a clear distinction between terror, and resistance against occupation or an illegitimate state. This distinction is abolished by the ruling from the High Court, thereby penalizing the International Solidarity that during the last 50 years has been developed internationally in support of the decolonization process in the 3rd World and the erosion of apartheid regimes and dictatorships, that have cast long shadows over the world. A solidarity that has participated in the promotion of peace and the development of democracy.

I strongly condemn terror, but the fight against terrorism must not lead to the abolishment of the fundamental principles of the rule of law. If that happens, the terrorists have won. The Danish Parliament has decided that the danish terror legislation of 2002 must be evaluated in 2009. I strongly support a change of the law, so that no longer can it be used for penalizing International Solidarity towards humanitarian projects or support for resistance- or liberation movements.

These signatures will be passed to the Danish Parliament on March 1st of 2009.
Sincerely,
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