cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34639023
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]
What a couple of pudding-brained stooges these pigs are.
Well, the Venn Diagram of Sherlock fucking Holmes and Constable Cadets is a two ring circus.
When you create stupid laws expect stupid results.
At least one person was actually arrested for wearing this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/protester-arrested-wearing-plasticine-action-t-shirt-palestine-gaza-protest
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.
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.
Yes it’s a less aggressive form but it’s far more insidious because people are less likely to resist it.
Hearing a cop admitting wrong feels like a fantasy in the US
Yeah in the US, they would have beat the shit out of him for daring to mock them with a shirt. Then arrest him for resisting.
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.
Yes you can. Problem for governments is that they usually are terrorists by the typical definitions of using violence to further political goals.
In particular the UK is heavily involved in the terror genocide against Gaza as it facilitates arms transfers from the US to Israel and runs spy flights over Gaza to help the Israelis find civilians to murder. They recently went to pay American contractors with British tax money to hide the fact that they continue their direct intelligence support to the genocide.
I can’t help but notice you did not provide a definition of terrorism that is not based on perspective.
using violence to further political goals.
Unless you want to go down the road of saying that every word and thereby every definition is a matter of perspective, i fail to see how this definition is “based on perspective”.
Ok America every way after WW2 has been to further economic interests in the area. Israel itself is formed on the back of horrific terrorism and outright murders.
So can a terrorist nation define another as a terrorist? As such could that definition not apply to literally every nation in the eyes of another? The word terrorist is useless, sandwich tosser terrorist, sandal thrower terrorist. It’s meaningless.
I agree that the use by states is hypocritical and the designation currently is meaningless.
But the definition in itself is relevant imo. to call out states when they engage in terror, which many, but not all, do.
Sort of, he was arrested and then de-arrested, and then began selling the shirt online.
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.
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).”
So any words close to the Palestine Action is illegal?! Lol so laws against grammar.
They’re anti-semantic
That is the purpose. Create ambiguous rules to justify authoritarian crackdowns.
The Brits sense of humor in the face of apocalyptic fuckery is top notch I tell you what.
It’s not like they have mobile phones and could just look up what plasticine is!
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 ☹️
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!
OPPRESS or …learn stuff? Pfft
Made me think of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes
(Definitely not about LSD, guys, really! Lol)
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!
I dont get it… Whats the Problem with the shirt?
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]
First thank you and yeah… Political i am living under a rock… (I know not the best thing To do today) but there thing is that it is clearly a different word which exists and that made me wonder…
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.
Meanwhile actual neo nazi group combat 18 is perfectly legal to join
Nazis arent as Bad as people who glue themself To the Street To Protest… /s (Context: in germany we allow facists political parties [again] while Protestes like “letzte Generation” simliar To fridays for future, get threated like terrorists…
“Oi do you have certificate of registration for that t-shirt lad? Careful he is holding a butter knife!”
Vandalism was enough for them to outlaw the whole group? How many of those 744 were vandals?
Probably wouldn’t see the same with roles reversed
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