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The noble Viscount’s amendment also criminalises expressions of support for a proscribed organisation and the wearing of an article of clothing or a uniform, or publishing an image, both of which need intention. Without the proof of intention, the defendant would be entitled to a not guilty verdict. I cannot believe that it should be enough to secure a conviction for a terrorist offence to prove that a person took part in a peaceable demonstration because of some support for the political aims of the organisation, as the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, said, which is devoid of any intent to further the terrorism for which that organisation has been proscribed.