A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down? Prevent’s “pre-crime” “risk-based” legal architecture delivered in the name of “keeping us safe” will bring an authoritarian future.
Since the introduction of Prevent, the number of “non-violent” terrorism (itself an oxymoronic term) offences have increased – and we can expect more of them.
Prevent continues to operate within, and sustain, its own legal hinterland – both in terms of criminalisation and generating activity in a newly defined “pre-crime” space. This has brought a crisis of democracy.
Source: Prevent is a tool for a new secular authoritarian future – The People’s Review of Prevent
