00:00Even a really horrific act of violence like Rudy Cabana's, unless it's done in
00:07order to advance a political or religious or ideological or racial cause,
00:12just can't be squeezed into the terrorism definition. It would change so
00:16much about the way in which we do business. For example, if someone carrying
00:21out an act like that was a terrorist, the threat level would have to change. And
00:25I've looked at it, I've thought, is it possible to find a way of changing the
00:30definition so that maybe you could bring some of those extra resources like the
00:34police and MI5 to try and stop this sort of thing happening again? Ultimately I
00:38think it's just impossible to do that. We've got a lot of laws that are
00:41designed for terrorist organisations, people who've got ideologies, religious,
00:45racial or whatever. You can't just then say let's get rid of that because
00:50otherwise people who are gangsters, football hooligans, people who who love
00:55violence would find themselves being treated as terrorism.
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