Name: 【TED】威爾‧波特: 替非暴力抗爭羅織罪名的驚人之舉 (Will Potter: The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest)
Uploaded: 2015-10-19T23:00:00.000Z
Duration: 4 min 34 s

It was less than a year after September 11,

在大學時我也曾參與一些社會運動

所以我決定幫忙一個在地的團體

hang door knockers against animal testing.

but of course I have the absolute worst luck ever,

把我手握傳單的這張照片當作是犯罪證據

兩個聯邦調查局探員來敲我的門

and they told me that unless I helped them

然後他們告訴我，除非我幫他們

they would put me on a domestic terrorist list.

否則他們會把我列入國內恐怖份子名單

I'd love to tell you that I didn't flinch,

我很想告訴各位當時我沒有退縮

how animal rights and environmental activists

這些從來沒有傷害任何人的人士

A few years later, I was invited to testify

and I told lawmakers that, while everybody

當每個人都在談論生態環保之時

to defend forests and to stop oil pipelines.

去防止森林消失、去阻止油管建設

They're physically putting their bodies on the line

between the whalers' harpoons and the whales.

And these movements have been incredibly effective

So in 1985, their opponents made up a new word,

所以在1985年，這些運動的反對者製造了一個新詞

like the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act,

「動物企業恐怖主義法案」這類的新法案

Now most people never even heard about this law,

現在大部份的人甚至從來沒聽說這個法律

只有不到百分之一的議員在會議室裡

其他人在外面參加一個新的紀念活動

他們在讚頌馬丁·路德·金恩博士

as his style of activism was branded as terrorism

因為他的行動若出自於動物或環境保護的立場

if done in the name of animals or the environment.

支持者們認為這樣的法律對於對付極端份子是必須的

the vandals, the arsonists, the radicals.

破壞公物者、縱火犯、激進份子

But right now, companies like TransCanada

但現在，像 TransCanada 這樣的公司

are briefing police in presentations like this one

在對警方簡報一些像這份的報告

about how to prosecute nonviolent protesters

The FBI's training documents on eco-terrorism

聯邦調查局的有關處理環保恐怖份子的訓練文件

The latest was in Idaho just two weeks ago,

最近的是兩個星期前在愛達荷州的立法

第一個農業封口 (ag-gag) 訴訟事件

by a bulldozer outside of a slaughterhouse

Amy 做了我們每個人都會做的事：

When I found out about her story, I wrote about it,

我知道了她的故事後寫了篇報導

and within 24 hours, it created such an uproar

然後在 24 小時內，這篇新聞引起了大騷動

that the prosecutors just dropped all the charges.

But apparently, even exposing stuff like that

但顯然，即使僅僅是批露這樣類型的事件

I learned that the counter-terrorism unit

以及像我現在正在發表的這篇演說

They even included this nice little write-up of my book.

他們還在我的書裡寫了這樣假惺惺的小註記：

They described it as "compelling and well-written."

這是下本書的宣傳簡介，對吧？

The point of all of this is to make us afraid,

這一切的目的都是讓我們感到害怕

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【TED】威爾‧波特: 替非暴力抗爭羅織罪名的驚人之舉 (Will Potter: The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest)

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