I know that the noble Lord will be very familiar with the quotation I was mindful of in what he just said, which was Voltaire’s great phrase: I disagree totally with what you say but would defend with my life your right to say it. In that situation, you might disagree totally with what an organisation stands for. I greatly disagree with what a lot of organisations stand for but would defend—I think to the death—their right to say it. Does this not resolve the matter that the noble Lord has just put to the House? You can at the same time urge the decriminalisation of an organisation that has up to then been regarded as a terrorist organisation while not agreeing whatever with the views that it holds.
Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Davies of Stamford
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 29 October 2018.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill.
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