Citizens Repent!

[sobrique]

Citizens. This year is the 400th anniversary of Mr. Fawkes rather splendid plan to flatten parliment.

I regret to inform you that under the new terrorist legislation before parliment, fireworks at this time of year will be considered 'glorifying terrorism'.

I would urge you all to go and turn yourselves in, for your 90 day sojourn with neither charge nor trial. Clearly any thoughts of such a celebration are ungood thinking, and must be corrected.

(And I'm only half joking. I wonder if half the country showed up at the nearest police station to 'turn themselves in' for glorifying terrorism, that might make the point)

Edit: Another thought just crossed my mind. Would a 'war of independance' count as an 'act of terrorism'?

Comments

[necessitysslave.livejournal.com]

I would have though it was the method of fighting which determined whether freedom fighters were terrorists or rebels. eg a relatively small number of people using large scale scare tactics to cow a populous into taking a particular course of action versus fielding an army which defends/attacks a ruling regime in a particular nation.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

When you're in occupied territory - even when it's your own country - do you really field an army? Where geography allows, you might have a guerilla force in the mountains/jungle, but that's still a relatively small number of people using scare tactics.

A better measure might be to ask whether the general population agrees with the aims, if not the tactics - and whether the terrorist/rebel scare tactics are aimed squarely at the occupiers, or just at EveryoneWhoDoesNotAgreeWithUs.