alt Hacker NewsWell, but so is British administration for almost two decades now, it just has a more posh accent and doesn't routinely deport brown people yet.
The language of hate coming straight from the front bench or most important ministers, the harassment of the vulnerable and the utter evisceration of the right to assembly and free speech.
Maybe you heard of the Hyde Park - it has this place called Speaker's corner where free speech open-air public speaking, debate and discussions are allowed. It's dated to 1800's during the protests re: administration.
Sounds wild, right?
And you wouldn't be even half right.
A man holding an empty placard during the protest was threatened with arrest.
Several people were jailed for attending a zoom call (planning a nonviolent protest) for several years each. Almost 100 people were jailed for protesting the Genocide and the illegal proscribing of the protest group.
You read that right: if you were on the protest encouraging a genocide, you would be free to walk the street. If you were to protest killing entire families, targeting health workers and sniping children, you'd end up in prison.
Few years ago a man was detained for shouting "not my king!".
And this is far from all.
We're catching up
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I think your genocide claim (if you mean the IDF action against Hamas) is provably false but I share your concerns.
> Almost 100 people were jailed for protesting the Genocide and the illegal proscribing of the protest group.
Several hundred people actually.
To be clear, you could protest the genocide as much as you wanted, what you couldn't do was support the specific group "Palestine Action" who had some members who had committed (IMHO) some property crimes against defence contractors which the government decided to classify as terrorism and proscribe the whole group. When thousands of people continued to support the group, the police continued to arrest them by the hundred. It's a clusterfuck
Thankfully the UK government has recently lost its court battle on the proscription of Palestine Action, though there are ongoing hearings as to what happens next with all the people who were arrested and who are now awaiting a court date on (presumably) terrorism charges.
So this -
> If you were to protest killing entire families, targeting health workers and sniping children, you'd end up in prison.
Is not quite right. Or quite wrong.
The curtailment of the right to protest is worrying in all sorts of places. This specific case is muddied by the direct-action wing of a specific organisation.