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What Is Distinctive About Terrorism And Anti-Terrorism Law?, Matthew S. R. Palmer
What Is Distinctive About Terrorism And Anti-Terrorism Law?, Matthew S. R. Palmer
The Hon Justice Matthew Palmer
Criminal offending and terrorist offending are similar in quality – the acts which constitute such offending are similar, and should be subject to similar levels of protection of civil and political rights. This is how a democracy should respond to domestic terror threats. To the extent that we are particularly concerned about the motivation of terrorists in challenging the very maintenance of public order by a state, we should reflect that concern in the penalties we impose on such proven offending, not in giving in to the temptation of lower burdens of proof of the existence of the offending or …