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Terrorism Bill

moved Amendment No. 3:"Page 1, line 5, leave out ““members of the public”” and insert ““persons””" The noble Lord said: This is a brief probing amendment. Why is the statement giving rise to an offence under Clause 1 a statement to ““members of the public””? What is meant in this context by ““the public””? It may well be that some small terrorist groups may make no efforts to recruit members of the public. I would think, for example, that that was probably true, although I cannot be certain, of the Baader-Meinhof gang, which was a very small terrorist group operating in Germany. That would no doubt be because some groups of this kind find that indoctrinating people who are already known to members of the group is a more effective method of recruitment than trying to indoctrinate unidentified members of the public. I wonder, therefore, why we are not targeting indoctrination rather than just public encouragement of terrorism? I beg to move.