cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34639023

Another Case

The British government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group on 5 July 2025 under the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000 after members of the network vandalised RAF aircraft at Brize Norton.[12] Since then, British police have arrested 744 individuals for showing support to Palestine Action, many of these resulting from a sit-in on Parliament Square on 9 August 2025.[13][14] Civil liberties groups have criticised the ban as “conflating protest with terrorism.”[15]

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    I am so SCARED. I mean just LOOK at this guy. Look at his socks! He’s clearly out to menace society. Phew. So glad those officers were there to set him straight and give him a good scolding. What would we do without these sorts of laws?! Society would just collapse. I’m sure of it.

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      Fascists don’t think, they do! The fact they’re doing the wrong things don’t matter to them just so long as they can tell themselves they’re “doing something about ‘the problem’ (that they made up in their heads).”

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      About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’

      “And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’ And then I walked free, while all the real heroes are the people that are actually getting arrested.”

      At least the cop wasn’t a total ass about it.

      I think the UK government is being incredibly stupid and fascist lately with shit like this.

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        Hey, if it was the US, due would be chewing on concrete with 3 or 4 'roided up cops yelling: “stop resisting!” while kneeling in his neck. I’m not saying the fascism shown here is cute but at least it isn’t so comically over-the-top as it is on this side of the pond.

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        The arrest would be the embarrassing part either way. You cannot define terrorism in a way that does not make it a matter of perspective.

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      13 hours ago

      Sort of, he was arrested and then de-arrested, and then began selling the shirt online.

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    “Oi do you have certificate of registration for that t-shirt lad? Careful he is holding a butter knife!”

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    It’s very cute that the cop on left is so unsure he needed to hold hands while they waited, it’s the personal touches really!

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      I thought maybe ’plasticine’ was a reference to plastic explosives, but one web search and hey! I’m less ignorant than I was 2 minutes ago!

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      Never do that… It melts their Brains when the need To learn something… Learned that the hard way, when i has to deal with cops ☹️

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      Assuming you’re genuine and not /s:

      The UK has proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist…

      The British government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group on 5 July 2025 under the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000 after members of the network vandalised RAF aircraft at Brize Norton.[12] Since then, British police have arrested 744 individuals for showing support to Palestine Action, many of these resulting from a sit-in on Parliament Square on 9 August 2025.[13][14] Civil liberties groups have criticised the ban as “conflating protest with terrorism.”[15]

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      The direct action protest group ‘Palestine Action’ broke into a UK air force base and spray painted some slogans on some planes.

      The UK government decided to prove American conservatives right about them having free speech issues by labelling the organization a terrorist organization (same level as ISIS, Boko Haram, etc) which makes showing support for them a criminal offense for supporting terrorism, with protesters holding Palestine Action signs facing years of jail time.

      The UN has called the move a gross over reaction and violation of human rights. Since then there have been hundreds of arrests of people protesting in support of Palestine Action.

      This logo looks very similar to the Palestine Action one.