During his trial on charges of supporting terrorism:
“That’s what a demonstration is all about. At a demonstration it’s about getting the point across and sometimes I do use insulting and abusive language but it’s nothing more than that. It’s rhetoric. When we are told about people being killed and tortured the only weapon we have is our tongue.“Accused ‘not sorry’ for UK deaths,” BBC News, March 4, 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7277879.stm.