‘Radicalisation prevention’ is probably the worst term politicians have invented in the last few years because they use this term ‘radicalization’ and conjure up images of terrorists that recruit seventeen year olds to join ISIS and blow themselves up, and then they get laws passed and measures approved to ‘prevent radicalization’, often linked to existing laws and measures to ‘prevent terrorism’ and they use all these laws indiscriminately to criminalize anyone that wants to change anything in the world.
I have seen ‘radicalisation prevention’ being used to criminalize youth who were speaking up against islamophobia and racism, anarchists who were protesting police brutality, and kids that just wanted to be allowed to exist in their own neighbourhood.
‘Radicalisation prevention’ is broad and vague by design, the way ‘terrorist was
broad and vague by design, only more so. It now includes anyone with ideals
that can be considered ‘too radical’.
It gives politicians the power to use anti-terrorism measures to target anyone with an ideal. It’s meant to give politicians the power to declare any movement they don’t like ‘radicals’ and prosecute them with all the powers given to them in the ‘war on terror’.
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