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From: Architexturez <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:10:38 +0530
The charges described in the arrest warrants reveal a construct based on
very dubious reasoning by analogy. The reasoning involves four basic
hypotheses, none of which the Federal High Court could substantiate with
any concrete evidence, but through their combination they are to leave
the impression of a “terrorist association”. The social scientists,
because of their academic research activity, their intellectual
capacities and their access to libraries, are said to be the brains of
the alleged “terrorist organization”. For, according to the Federal
prosecutor, an association called “militante gruppe” is said to use the
same concepts as the accused social scientists. As evidence for this
reasoning, the concept of “gentrification” is named - one of the key
research themes of Andrej Holm und Matthias B. in past years, about
which they have published internationally. They have not limited their
research findings to an ivory tower, but have made their expertise
available to citizens’ initiatives and tenants’ organizations. This is
how critical social scientists are constructed as intellectual gang leaders.
cont'd....
http://www.policing-crowds.org/news/article/open-letter-to-the-generalbundesanwaltschaft-against-the-criminalization-of-critical-academic-resea.html
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2742395,00.html
petition:
http://www.policing-crowds.org/petition.html