UK Politics

Remember when liberals were outraged when Russian protesters were arrested for showing blank pieces of paper?

The UK is now in the same stage of slide toward autocracy, evidently.

Paper! Believe it or not, jail.

What is non-factual or poorly framed about that?

Protestors didn't want to get arrested without achieving critical mass, so to prevent being arrested before that point, they only wrote their signs after doing so.

It sounds like you want the BBC to be a mouthpiece for your views and interpret anything less than that as propaganda. If I can listen to a BBC report about it and come away a) with renewed disgust at the ban and b) understanding the tactics used by the protestors, what have they done wrong?

~~Zionists~~ The colonialist self-proclaimed representatives of a white race who are right now mass murdering children of a "brown" race because of having born with the "wrong" ethinicity are more important than ~~your~~ the civil rights of the British riff-raff.

FIFY

British governments have a long and shameful History of supporting Racist Fascists no matter what they do, from Pinochet to the government of Apartheid South Africa. Even Hitler was supported (there's even a picture of the old Queen as a child being taught the Nazi salute by her uncle the then King) until he invade Poland.

Support for this specific Genocidal white colonialist nation mass murdering muslim children with authoritarian methods and de facto no concern for the civil rights of common Britons, is just the latest symptom of social and political regressivennes and even learned sociopathy amongst the British elites: they never really evolved beyond 19th century ways and "values".

Here’s a reminder that modern gun control laws in the US got started during the civil rights movement by conservatives, because lawmakers were scared of black people owning guns.

The civil rights protestors realized that peaceful unarmed protests were quickly and violently busted… Cops had no qualms about dragging protestors around, beating people, firing into crowds, etc… But peaceful heavily armed protests had cops politely watching from across the street. Because firing into a crowd is a lot less appealing when the entire crowd can immediately return fire.

When conservative lawmakers saw heavily armed protestors on the front steps of their capitol buildings, and saw police completely unwilling to break the protests up, they got really fucking sweaty really fucking quickly. So Ronald Reagan (yes, the same Reagan who is treated as a paragon of conservative values by conservative talking-heads), and the NRA (yes, the same NRA who lobbies for looser gun control laws in the wakes of school shootings), co-authored and quickly passed the Mulford Act. At the time, it was the single most restrictive gun control law that had ever been passed, and it set the stage for modern gun control laws.

That's fair and it should be officially a terrorist org, but on the flip side there have been many actions taken against the KKK leading to their large decline over the decades, including in the 1960s when FBI Director Hoover and Agent Roy Moore setting up new field offices in Mississippi and holding many of them accountable as well as uncovering and making public new murders that otherwise went under the radar. There was also a large deradicalization programs that effectively reduced members of such groups and prevented crimes, the programs which grew in scale under Obama and were torn down by Trump.

extra funny given he previously cheered on this type of protest during the Iraq bullshit

https://www.facebook.com/ZarahSultanaMP/posts/in-2003-anti-war-activists-broke-into-raf-fairford-to-stop-us-bombers-heading-to/1307269760960414/

palestine action didn't do anything different than what keir starmer did.

Nobody does, especially not the UK government