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UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action
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Palestine Action was banned after they breached into a military base and damaged RAF jets
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn81g4e0nlyo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr742e8n0rxo
A lot of their supporters are good people that simply aren't aware of what the group did.
I think arresting their supporters is going too far. It's a waste of resources.
Everyone knows what they did. That's not the issue that people have. The issue is proscribing them as a terrorist group when they quite clearly aren't a terrorist group in a monumental trivialisation of what terrorism actually is and an obvious attempt to silence people.
I had no idea what they did, wow, I like them even more now
They painted a few planes, they're hardly the IRA.
It begs the question, in whom have they inspired terror?
"Budgie the Little Helicopter" and "Jimbo of the Jet Set" are both terrified.
Thomas the Tank Engine had bricked himself into a tunnel.
Jimbo has, in fact, suggested he might like the freshen up and Budgie's just happy to be less Epstein adjacent.
Paint can do severe damage to engines
Damaging an aircraft engine is a far cry from a campaign of kneecapping, bombing and murder.
Yes but nobody is afraid of them. They haven't hurt anyone.
Damaging government property is terrorism now?
Plane lives matter.
Oh wait, planes aren't alive. Gee, sounds like it was a non-violent crime then, huh?
Try attacking ultra high cost military property in any part of the world and tell me how you did.
Say it with me:
Non-
Violent
Crime
They have labeled a group as terrorists for performing an action that literally harms no one. In fact, it does the opposite.
Reckon it was because of the UK supplying over 500 RAF spy flights over gaza?
Nope, because the planes they damaged weren’t spy planes.
So? What they did has nothing to do with terrorism at worst it's vandalism.
Which under British law is terrorism if politically motivated.
I think plenty of their supporters knew what they did and frankly they absolutely deserve to be punished for criminal damage. Proscribing them as a terror organisation, however, is waaaay disproportionate and in my personal opinion an abuse of the law. I think their supporters feel the same and are making a stand against this.
Yes everyone knows that.
No that is incorrect, what you are trying to do is make it look legitimate for them to be prescribed. I don't know of anyone who both supports them but also doesn't know what they were accused of.
Not only do the vaste majority know what they did. They know Starmer as a lawyer successfully defended very similar actions under the Blair administration. As not criminal due to intent to save lives.
The level of hypocrisy within the current government is beyond belief. Starmer is clearly the puppet of someone. What or who is the only thing up for debate.
The public must be so terrorised in their homes, knowing the orphan crushing machines can't come and save them when they need snap-orphan crushing.
`damaged´
Throwing paint into a jet engine really is damage. You gave to take the engine apart and meticulously clean out the paint before you can run it again, because otherwise the engine could do itself serious harm next time it's started. That's a very expensive thing to do.
That actually makes it a very effective act of protest, which is why the government has come down so hard on them
Were the actual people who performed the action caught?
That's something that would cost thousands to fix if done to a car, as the paint needs to be sanded back and repainted. On an aircraft, it could easily be a six figure job, in addition to a multimillion dollar aircraft being unable to be flown.
Calling it terrorism is silly, but it's absolutely damage.