• Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
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    There’s always a lot of comments about the police having no ethics and what not. The focus should be on who decided and who agreed to Palestine Action as being a terrorist organisation.

    The act of supporting a terrorist organisation is illegal. Police have to follow the law and not decide that today they won’t because they don’t believe in the law.

    Either Palestine Action needs me be removed as a terrorist organisation or laws changed to allow peaceful signs of support not illegal.

  • robomuffin79@lemmy.world
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    I wish this was a headline from The Onion but sadly it’s a representation of where Britain is today. Suppressing the rights of its own citizens to protect a foreign nation committing genocide

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      man we need these oaps on the front lines with wire cutters breaking into army bases. what is this waving signs bullshit

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    Those damned elderly Brits standing up for poor dying people! I mean, seriously though, how can you go to work as a UK cop and do this shit.

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      I’d love to hear from one of the officers involved regarding how they feel about this. I can’t imagine they’re happy about it at all.

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        The lads I know wouldn’t be. Hopefully, whilst those offices don’t have to agree, they can still be polite, courteous, kind and gentle

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      Law enforcement are selected for being authoritarian scabs everywhere. The good ones, of strong moral character, are ostracised and pushed out by rest.

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        Yeah I knew a good cop that worked for medium sized city. He was isolated, excluded and border line suicidal after like 5 years.

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    Fascist thugs in government can’t allow people to oppose genocide. Don’t these people know it’s making a few people extremely rich?

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        Yes. The UK was the midwife to israel’s existence.

        The British government agreed the Balfour declaration in 1917 which announced that Palestine would become a Zionist colony. They sent British soldiers to keep the Palestinians down as European colonists flooded in, brutally crushing a Palestinian uprising in 1936 in the same way that they oppressed the Irish fighting for independence. They trained Zionist terror groups like the Irgun on how to ethnically cleanse villages and terrorise the civilian populations which greatly helped them depopulate Palestine in 1948 during the Nakba.

        Since then they have been consistent suppliers of weapon systems as well as political and moral cover for israel crimes even after the US took over the role of main sponsor.

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    The elders need to plan with the youths. While the force is focusing on the elders holding signs the youth can fuck shit up elsewhere. Split the forces and you can get a message across

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    As an American I feel:

    1. schadenfreude after all the crap I’ve taken because fighting facshests is hard and I’m tired of hearing crap from Europe

    2. fear because the number of truly democratic countries is shrinking

    • BenjiRenji@feddit.org
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      In Switzerland they put fire to a company creating tear gas guns and similar crowd control weaponry. Out of solidarity for ICE victims and the students in France.

      That’s the level of civil unrest this fascist takeover demands.