...to make a statement glorifying terrorism if the person making it believes, or has reasonable grounds for believing, that it is likely to be understood by its audience as an inducement to terrorism.There was sedition and there was treason but now there is maybe going to be a crime in the UK for glorifying terrorism. Here is background from the British Home Office.
Problem is sedition and treason are neutral in the medium of the inducement but glorifying is sort of about the medium. And why limit it to terrorism? It would be nice if glorifying insane levels of murderous crime in public places would be made illegal as well. But that would rule out the last 25 minutes of most films - except for the big hug at the end as the grinning police chief walks past Bruce Willis in slow mo...as a bus explodes in the background...cool...
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Flea - October 8, 2005 9:42 PM
I find the UK government's struggle with these newfangled charges entirely baffling. Most of their efforts strike me as profoundly unreasonable and almost to run afoul of various treaty commitments. I can only assume they believe the public is happier with tossing people into jail or out of the country on the basis of made up crimes rather than dispensing ye old fashioned, tried and tested yet grumpy sounding justice in the form of treason or sedition charges.
Alan - October 8, 2005 10:59 PM
...and I was thinking of examples of what could be considered "glorifying terrorism" when it was just an odd fit. What if a viable resistence forms in North Korea, China or Iran and people in the UK start advocating support for that resistence through discussing its heroism. Strange that that might be a crime.