The Anti-Terrorism Law
This law would be ridiculous, absurd,
and would represent a complete surrender of
everything that is free.
To explain:
The word Terrorism has yet to be defined.
Its definition lays down the offense against it.
Terrorism is a frame of mind.
To make it a crime it would require a completion
of an act of public disturbance,
plus the intention to terrorize,
plus the admission of the crime,
if there be any.
Without any of these requisites,
the act of public disturbance can be defined simply
as a trouble-making act.
And the Anti-Terrorism Law is simply dismissed
as the Anti-Troublemaking Law
Think of the serious consequences of this law—
It will not be the perpetration of the act itself
that would make this law ridiculous.
IT IS THE SUSPICION OF MAKING A TERRORIST ACT
that is dangerous to the welfare of the people.
People can be hauled to jail for anything suspicious,
or even for anything that is harmless,
like playing with an imitation weapon or stalking.
We should bear in mind that nobody
can read the mind to discover the intentions
of would-be terrorists.
Ergo, suspicion is not proof of one’s intentions.
Goodness!
While the rest of the world is trying to dismantle
their police force,
this Anti-terrorism law will just initiate
a police state
where nothing rules but the police.
