This is a serious matter. That is how we treated it. The bottom line is that we do not have a public defence clause and a public domain clause. You will be giving the people of South Africa a lesser measure of freedom and liberty than enjoyed by the people in the United States of America where there is a First Amendment clause. I wish to ask all of you: Why? Why do you do that? Do you feel that the people of South Africa are less deserving of the same freedom and democracy that the Americans have enjoyed for the past 230 years? [Interjections.]
It is a bad Bill! You have forced the hon Turok to recant. That is a crime against his conscience. Today, he had to issue a statement, eating humble pie and committing himself to vote. This is not how this Parliament must operate. [Interjections.] We have fought for the possibility of thinking, for the possibility of assessing, and for the possibility of judging.