This is an act of censorship worthy of Joseph Goebbels
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1576613,00.html
The plan to draw up a list of historical events that people can be
prosecuted for celebrating is a sign of a leader losing his grip
Simon Jenkins
Friday September 23, 2005
The Guardian
At last history hits pay dirt. For years it was pap for television. The
nation's rulers needed scientists for guns, linguists for trade and
economists for mistakes. History was for nuts and numismatists. Now up
pops Charles Clarke jingling bags of gold. The home secretary has
promised the prime minister that he will lock away for five years
anyone who "glorifies, exalts or celebrates" a terrorist act committed
in the past 20 years. He does not care if glorification was not meant.
If someone, somewhere takes anything that I say or write as encouraging
to terror, even if they do not act on it, I have committed a criminal
act.
Simon Jenkins
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/06a66466c3d35de1
Charles Clarke
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/d3523b8e4081620d
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