| | A Black Law By Any Other Name … |
 | | Firstly, the ULPA too will set out to ‘define' terrorism, just as POTA did — this fact goes against the democratic opinion in the country, which held that the existing laws were more than enough to deal with terrorist crimes, and no new and special legal ‘definition' was required. |
 | | Those engaged in movements for social change continue to be at risk of victimization, since the State will still have the subjective prerogative of defining terrorism according to convenience, erasing the differences between democratic protest and actual dastardly acts of terror. |
 | | Given that the innocent SAR Geelani almost got sent to the gallows (in the Parliament attack case) by such evidence, which turned out to be terribly concocted, is enough indication of what is to come in ULPA. |
| www.cpiml.org /liberation/year_2004/october/pota_ulpa.htm (899 words) |