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   From: tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie   
      
   Stephen Glynn wrote:   
      
   > Let's try a specific example.  People have sometimes quite rightly   
   > complained that films about East End gangsters of the past have   
   > 'glorified' their criminal activities -- running protection rackets,   
   > torturing and murdering informers and so forth.   Presumably, under the   
   > proposed legislation, it would continue to be legal (though possibly   
   > misguided and distasteful) to write such books about the Kray brothers   
   > but not to write similar ones about Republican or Unionist   
   > paramilitaries.   That seems completely illogical; the crimes that being   
   > 'glorified' or to which people might be incited are the exactly the same.   
      
   One difference is that nobody is going to imitate the Kray brothers -   
   the whole milieu has completely disappeared.   
   It is as remote as films of Chicago bootleggers.   
      
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   Timothy Murphy   
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