TERRORISMO Y LIBERTADES POLÍTICAS

Abstract

This article analyses the consequences that the current discourse on lack of safety and emergency has on certain political freedoms when it is applied to antiterrorist legislation which is, undoubtedly, the criminal area of expansion and exceptionality par excellence. This is an attempt to warn once more against the risks that the above-mentioned idea entails. Attention is drawn to the impact that it all can have on the three fundamental freedoms: freedom of association, freedom of ideology, religion and worship, and freedom of speech. Today, the chances to violate them have increased, among other reasons, because of the emergence of a new form of terrorism in the face of which too many people advocate for a differentiated treatment to that given to the old form of terrorism. Therefore, this treatment is based on the doubly dangerous idea of exception within exception