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2002 DEMOCRATIC VOCABULARY OF BASQUE POLITICAL LANGUAGE

0. Introduction

1. Terrorism

Objectives of terrorism

Explanations and interpretations of terrorist acts

Origin of the violence

Assessment of terrorist attacks

Those responsible for murders

Justification for murders

The struggle against terrorism

Response to terrorist attacks

Regretting, reproaching, condemning and combating terrorism

Legitimisation of violence

Violence and political claims

Tolerance towards political violence

Passiveness; looking the other way

Everything is worth the same

Equality of conditions for all political projects

All political approaches are legitimate

Nobody is surplus to requirements here

All ideas are legitimate

There does not have to be any loser

Providing oxygen

That the enemy should not benefit

Monopoly of the use of violence

Functioning of terrorism

Moral conscience

Threat; coercion :

Blackmail; extortion; revolutionary tax;

I'll come and collect it

Kaleborroka, street violence, low intensity terrorism, street terrorism

Structural violence

Effects of terrorism :

Rights of prisoners

"Third level" prison rules allowing certain benefits

Parole after serving ¾ of the sentence

Terrorists; those who are violent; brain-damaged

Enemies of the Basque people

Victims of terrorism

They must have done something

The truth commission

Renunciation of the use of violence

End to the violence

Ethical pacifism

Civic-democratic pacifism

Peace through sovereignty

2.- THE CITIZEN AND THE COMMUNITY

3.-DEMOCRATIC-AUTONOMIST APPROACHES

4.- NATIONALIST APPROACHES.

5.- PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES OF POLITICAL CONDUCT.

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