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   XPost: uk.current-events.terrorism   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Stephen Glynn   
    writes   
      
   > howard wrote:   
   >>>"banana"  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >> news:McebPRAXyHNDFwuC@borve.demon.co.uk...   
   >>   
   >>>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'.   
      
   >> Presumably that'll include firework celebrations on   
   >> Guy Fawkes night ?   
   >>   
   >> H.   
      
   >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.   
      
   It will be interesting to see how this is written up. Will the idea be   
   to decree that particular pre-1985 acts will count as 'terrorist' and   
   therefore mustn't be 'glorified', allowing other pre-1985 acts to be   
   decided to be 'terrorist' or 'non-terrorist' by the courts? Or will the   
   idea be to say that of all the many terrorist acts committed before   
   1985, *only* such-and-such particular ones mustn't be 'glorified', with   
   the implication that others may be?   
      
   I am thinking of certain campaigns widely described as terrorist, at   
   least until quite recently, such as the Zionist terrorism of the late   
   1940s against UK 'Mandate' forces. ('Mandate' being a curious way of   
   saying 'imperial').   
      
   Another question - how will the '20 year' period work? If the law comes   
   into force in 2005, and a 1985 act counts as terrorist, but only under   
   the 20-year rule, will it 'drop off' when the clock ticks on to 21   
   years?   
      
   What fucking loony shit this is!   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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