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Terrorism Bill

My hon. and learned Friend might be coming on to deal with great works of literature. I am thinking, for example, of Sartre’s magnificent trilogy that tries to work out existential philosophy through a description of 1930s history. In that, he delivers a paean to the revolutionary fighting spirit of those in Barcelona fighting tyranny. He ends the book with a great nihilistic act of self-destruction, in which the hero takes a machine gun and mows down Germans in front of him from a church tower, and is eventually killed himself. Has he considered the implications for such great works of literature, which seem to incite violent acts in precisely the terms of the clause that he describes?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
438 c846 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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