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EU security Chief Franco Frattini is seeking to kick off a Europe-wide debate on the roots of terrorism and radicalisation.

Or so he says, but apparently he also wants to use laws introduced to deal with Islamic terrorism to control the general population; he says The commission believes that there is no such thing as Islamic terrorism, nor catholic nor red terrorism. None of the religions or democratic political choices of European citizens tolerates, let alone justifies, terrorism.

Included among pure, simple ideology that is a concern for the commission is anti-globalisation following sometimes violent protests at EU summits. Individuals, particularly young people from poorer, or excluded backgrounds, may feel a strong attraction for the certainties of extreme, or anti-globalisation, ideologies, although of course it is not only individuals in these categories who are found to have turned to violent radicalisation.

This is no more than an attempt to stifle protests against the undemocratic nature of the EU and its institutions, if they remove the power of the people to affect their governments at the ballot box which they have, they only leave one option open for the voice of the people to be heard and that is to protest, literally on the streets. To now conflate pure terrorist action with protest, even violent protest, against the state is a removal of our basic right to be ruled by consent. Where would the poll tax protestor be if Frattini had his way? Where would Civil Rights protesters be if Frattini had his way? This is simply unacceptable in a democratic state, but then who says the EU is democratic Oh! Yes it is people like Franco Frattini. Who not only wants to equate protest with terrorism, but also wants to curtail the media so that EU can differentiae between what it sees as legal and illegal protest according to its own wishes.