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   XPost: uk.current-events.terrorism   
   From: stephen.glynn@ntlworld.com   
      
     howard wrote:   
   >>"banana"  wrote in message   
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   > news:McebPRAXyHNDFwuC@borve.demon.co.uk...   
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   >>UK government monkey Charles Clarke is saying that the authorities   
   >>propose to outlaw the 'celebration' of any 'terrorist' act committed in   
   >>the past 20 years. Apparently they are also preparing a list of   
   >>'selected' acts from longer ago than that, which it will also become a   
   >>criminal offence to 'glorify'.   
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   > Presumably that'll include firework celebrations on   
   > Guy Fawkes night ?   
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   > H.   
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   Probably not.   The draft legislation allows the Home Secretary of the   
   day to proscribe the 'glorification' of terrorist acts over 20 years   
   old, so he could proscribe Guy Fawkes night if he wanted to, but he   
   probably won't.   
      
   AIUI, in fact, the bonfires were originally supposed to celebrate the   
   fact the plot *failed*.   That's why you burn Guy Fawkes (or, in some   
   places, the Pope) in effigy.   
      
   Steve   
      
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