And arresting them still, despite the high court ruling the ban was unlawful.
People are arrested for holding placards that do not even mention the banned group.
It's important to mention that the seemingly unlawful ban was imposed after the group broke into the airbase and spray-painted planes.
Prime minister Keir Starmer was called a hypocrite for calling for the ban, because he was defending an activist in court after they committed pretty much identical act 20 years ago in the airbase Fairford while acting as a human rights lawyer.
You mean, of course, sprayed paint into the turbines of military planes, causing a £million plus in damages. It's certainly not behaviour that a government can allow to continue.
Maybe people don't understand the job a lawyer has? I'm assuming people here aren't as ignorant as to assume a) a lawyer supports the activity of the accused they defended, b) a PM can support actions seeking to damage infrastructure of the country they represent whether they personally might have in the past or not.
Palestine Action have acted like a terror group. Weakly, compared to those we've seen act in the UK, I'd accept. Israeli action against Palestinians has been reprehensible. Calling for genocide of Israelis is still not okay.
People decided to make it about supporting a censured group, and attacking Israelis (and Jews in particular) rather than protesting for an end to violence. It seems none of those people called for Hamas to return the people they kidnapped - any pretence of wanting peace fails right there.
Arresting a person minding their own business, walking on the street for refusing to uncover their face because busybodies decided to put thousands of the people on the virtual line up on that day.
Arresting a person yelling "not my king!"
Proscibing a group protesting genocide while openly supporting the genocide. Later the ban was overturned by the court, but the government appealed and the police keeps throwing people in jail for wearing "I oppose genocide"
Arresting and prosecuting the grandma for holding a placard quoting text visible on the wall of the criminal court (old Baileys).
Arresting a man wearing "I support PLASTICINE action" (that's not a typo).
Throwing in jail people sitting on the zoom call and discussing nonviolent, peaceful protest against the environment collapse and the governments role in accelerating it.
Forbiding people from explaining to juries WHY they decided to break the law (as with the law, not all law is fair: slavery was legal, outing Jews to Nazis was mandatory, child marriages were legal)
Asking a neuroscientist to verify harms of the commonly abused substances, firing him for proving alcohol and tobacco are MUCH more deadly and harmful than some of the banned substances. At the same time the government claims there are no medicinal benefits of cannabis , Britain is the home to the biggest cannabis plantation, run by government-connected people. Yield is sold to be processed into Sativex, medical cannabis.
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