You can be a terrorist for holding a sign now?
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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If it says "I support genocide", you'll be left alone by the Metropolitan police: https://youtube.com/shorts/RP1sPaH4Zec
Only when you say you oppose genocide, you'll be labeled a terrorist.
Only if the rich don't like it
The issue is a bit more complex. Palestine Action decided to go into a military airport and caused damage to one of their planes which resulted in that plane being grounded. And thanks to the UK's lax definition of what constitutes a terrorist organisation (namely causing considerable damage to public or private infrastructure and property, in an attempt to support a political or ideological cause, as an organisation), it was super easy to proscribe PA.
Which is pretty dumb as it was the same govt who refused to roll back laws that limited the legal framework of protests, making them essentially pointless, so the only action people can take to make the government actually listen... is what the government considers terrorism.
You say that like it was an accident.
Destroying military aircraft is a grey area? I'm not judging their actions at all, just being pragmatic.. destroying military aircraft is pretty much what it is - there's a reason it's protest, and at the highest level - there's consequences. This just doesn't seem like a confused Pikachu moment. For the record, I've been paddy wagoned, beat by cops, tear gassed, a whole bunch. I was released bc we didn't attack a military base for fucks sake. You play in the big leagues, there's gotta be respective consequence, no?
Cool, and I'm sure those who damaged the planes were prepared to be arrested. But now they're arresting people for saying, "Hey, I think what those guys who damaged a plane are saying is right." That crosses a line, for me.
Oh fuck, I didn't catch that. That's literal fascism.
They threw paint at some military aircraft, which is a far cry from "destroying".
They didn't blew up anything or even significantly damage it, they did just enough to be considered "damage" per that insanely broad law, kinda like in Britain somebody talking loud during a demonstration is enough to be considered "disturbing the public order" giving the coppers a legal excuse to arrest people participating in that demonstration.
No idea were you pulled that "destroying" from.
The aircraft wasn't destroyed. It had some paint thrown at it - considerably less damage than it would receive during even a routine reconnaissance mission. It was literally grounded for three days only, and even that was because the RAF decided to do a full checkup, something that wasn't warranted at the time.
Some members also beat a police officer with a sledgehammer and he was in recovery for three months due to an injury to his spine.
If you watch the video that was released you'll see it's not as clear cut as your comment makes out.
For example, the officer was also wielding a sledgehammer, a protestor had just slipped on the wet floor and as they were getting up again the sledgehammer wielding officer used the handle to shove them to the ground again.
Only parts of the footage have been released and the parts they did release didn't paint the picture of an innocent bobby being brutalised by terrorists, as they tried to portray in multiple press releases beforehand.
They also released the footage during the midst of an active trial despite having it for months prior.
The police's actions are not those of an impartial or innocent organisation.
Punching a Nazi with a sledgehammer shouldn't be a crime
Apparently the cop was the one swinging the sledgehammer.
Lmao
In the UK it has been this way for a while now. But if you commit genocide that's all fine.
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Apparently.
Thank god for firebrands like her. I am so proud of her. Imagine if we all had one tenth of her persistence and idealism!
She has bigger balls than most of the men in my generation.
Showing Britain for the Fascist shithole it's been turned into.
Good. Not that she got arrested of course, but that she keeps protesting, internationally. So soon after what must have been a pretty harrowing experience in Israel.
It seems they chose their target well, too:
Aspen Insurance, a global speciality insurer and reinsurer were targeted because they provide services to Elbit Systems UK, providing the arms manufacturer with the mandatory Employer Liability insurance without which Elbit could not produce weapons in Britain. Elbit are Israel’s biggest weapons maker, producing over 85% of their killer drone fleet and land-based equipment.
It looks like the penalty in the UK for showing support (clothing, signs) is up to 6 months in prison.
It's one reason the government is so keen to reduce jury trials. Because nobody is going to send granny down for holding a piece of cardboard.
I've never been able to quite grasp the rationale of a hunger strike. I can't recall hearing about one that was successful. You are protesting men who have no respect for life by causing yourself to suffer at them? More likely there is some "powerful" man, or group of "powerful" men, somewhere furiously masturbating to your suffering.
I mean no disrespect to the protesters, I just don't see a possible win for them with that tactic.
Hunger strikes aren't to get the sympathy of the jailer, but of the people. It's effectiveness is certainly debatable.
Ever heard of a guy called Mohandas Gandhi?
Yep, heard of him. Don't know enough about his hunger strike to understand what it accomplished. Power must have had more of a conscience then, or feared the reaction of the people if he managed to die though. That just makes it harder for me to believe it can be an effective tactic now.
Worked for Dolores Price.
In prison, most of your autonomy is taken away. Refusing to eat is one way you can assert yourself to cause a stir, while making any response (e.g. force-feeding) a clear violation of your autonomy.
I’m surprised she was not turned away at the border. She’s not a UK citizen, has recently been deported by an allied country, and given that British law enshrines the IHRA definition of antisemitism, her legal status would be equivalent to that of a Holocaust denier, and her presence would be considered “not conducive to public order”.