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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
up until last week waving a placard promoting or glorifying terrorism wasn't a criminal offence under British law.
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Not true... It comes under the banner of incitement to [religious] hatred/violence, which is why people wree complaning that cops had the tools but didn't use them. Nick Griffin had already been caught under it in the late 90s. It was the reason that drug dealer who dressed up as a suicide bomber was arrested.
What the MPs were arguing about was to make the order from a Public Order offence (relatively mild) to an offence under the Terrorism Act (which is serious and gives the government/police much more power to process, than a PO offence).