However, there are common characteristics to all anti-terrorist legislation: fast-track procedures, extension of police powers, restriction of individual liberties, and the setting up of specialized courts to try the perpetrators of these acts of violence. ... Ireland, although it is a young independent State, enacted legislation aimed at combatting violence against the State a long time ago, while France was among the last of the European States to avail itself of anti-terrorist legislation opening the way for the creation of specialized courts. ... However, the period following the Treaty e...

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Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. ...

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One instance of this is Benson's Battalion, an organization initiated by pitcher Kris Benson and his wife Anna, to provide financial, educational and other assistance to police organizations, fire departments and other public safety groups throughout Pennsylvania to assist them in safeguarding their areas against violence and terrorist attacks. ...

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