
Lawfare Archive: Kent Roach on the 9/11 Effect
The Lawfare Podcast
Is There a Difference Between the United States and the United Kingdom?
Militant democracy provides some legitimacy for attempts to curtail expressive and associational freedoms in order to prevent terrorism. i think there are rences between the english version of militant democracy, which you see in in the post london bombing offences with respect to glorification of terrorism or indirect advocacy. And the post world war true german a version of militantdemocracy, which allows parties to be banned if they do not accept the constitutional order. But i think the common thread there, and what distinguishes them from the united states, is a willingness to infringe expressive an associational freedom - even if it is only to prevent a fairly remote harm to the constitutional order and a fairlyremote harm of a terrorist


