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    ^ Without the designation there's nobody closely monitoring them to see if they're planning the things you think monitoring will provoke them to do.

    If the Toronto 18 had been left off watch lists out of fear that being on a watch list might inspire them to violence, they'd have gone ahead and blown things up and we'd wonder why they weren't on a watch list.

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    • er, ^ Morning_stari_monk
    • There is more than enough legislation in place to allow monitoring anyone suspected of planning a crime. It’s an over-reaction and whilst the PB are irksome...Morning_star
    • ...pretenders their ethos is unpopular and blatantly misguided. Keep them above ground and under the public eye and they’ll destroy themselvesMorning_star
    • The core the motion was to make dealing with this sort of group a priority, making the tools available etc; designating them a terror group was only one part.i_monk
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