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Terrorism Bill

Proceeding contribution from John Denham (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 2 November 2005. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Terrorism Bill.
Is not the problem that, in the example given by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Medway (Mr. Marshall-Andrews), if one deleted the words ““destruction of power lines””—or whatever—and inserted the words ““killing of civilians”” and ““oppressive regime””, the Government certainly intend to catch that under clause 1? The only thing that would prevent someone from being prosecuted for using such language in the South African context, or in the context of suicide bombers, would be the decision of the Attorney-General. In effect, a political judgment would be made about whether someone was to be prosecuted? Is there a way round that?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
438 c841 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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