cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/15885857
In the encounter, which she filmed, one officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.”
He went on to say that the phrase “Free Gaza” was “supportive of Palestine Action”, adding it was an offence “to express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, namely Palestine Action is an offence under section 12(1A) of the Terrorism Act”. The officer told her she had committed that offence.
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The ban on Palestine Action, the first against a direct action protest group, came into force on 5 July after a high court judge refused to grant the group’s co-founder Huda Ammori an injunction suspending it while legal action was pending.
One of the police officers told Murton they were “trying to be fair”, adding: “We could have jumped out, arrested you, dragged you off in a van.”
This is what inevitably happens when freedom of thought, speech and expression is limited for essentially any reason. Once the tools are in place, they will be used, abused and inevitably end up in the hands of someone you disagree with.
Dystopian. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
You can’t always tell when an article isn’t about an incident in the USA, unless they feel the need to specify that the police were armed.
“proscribed organisation” was a giveaway for me. It just sounded like a British legal term that nobody would use here in the US.
I doubt many Americans could define "proscribed: without googling it. Obviate, circumscribe, auspice vs auspices, expatriate … few people in the US knows what those mean either. ‘Effect’ vs ‘affect’ is barely understood.
The takeover of our government by Israel approaches completion.
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People often forget that both 1984 and Brave New World were explicitly set in the UK.
1984 wasn’t set in britain, its Airstrip One, duh
Asinine.
