Three people charged with supporting Palestine Action
(www.bbc.co.uk)
from floofloof@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 17:02
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from floofloof@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 17:02
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When you condemn chants while your country keep sending arms that kill palestinians. Also people.are silence about groups like Israel now in canada promoting physical confrontations and direct harassment, online and offline, targeting Palestinian supporters.
Israel and who arms them are the one calling for violence. Arresting people supporting an anti war group that never hurt a person or called for violence against individuals is the problem
Why don’t you treat those chants like i shot the sheriff by bob marley?
Nobody did death threats idiot
You can’t kill a country so death to canada is figurative. I shot the sherif is also figurative. How dumb can you be to not the see how it’s similar.
So if i am artist i can put death to canada line in my song because it’s an artistic expression but if i use it as a political slogan about canadian complicity in genocide in a protest is not?
Get the hell out of here with your dumb excuses for arresting anti war protestors
Those who was in the protests yes they use it figuratively otherwise they would start attacking Americans civilians
More people started listening to Bob Vylan after the chants death to the IDF, i shot the sheriff did not kill Bob Marley career despite the backslash by the racists . Ton of people would listen to a song with the lyrics death to Canada and USA from a figurative and anti genocide stand point
The Palestinians cause keep getting more popular so you are wrong again
The only one who get manipulated by the Canada/USA/Israel/us is you
Canada applauded Israel terrorist attack on nuclear facilities in Iran, canada is selling arms to the terrorist state of Israel to commit genocide . What’s worse a country supporting terrorism or some group that have slogans that you don’t like and that never attacked a single individual?
Mizrachi Organization of Canada, Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada, Ronnen Harary Foundation, Canada Charity Partners, and Heseg Foundation are all supporting israel occupation none of them are hate groups according to canada.
Many Zionists organizations was selling west bank land in the west bank , Canada did not stop anybody
So yeah i don’t think death to Canada as a chant about Canadian complicity with Israeli terrorism is problematic
The government wouldn’t crack down if they didn’t have to. They’d just ignore it.
That should tell you that they are doing something right.
That’s also very obviously not terrorism.
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Hypocrisy
What are you talking about ?
Vandalism do not account as terrorism. The uk arrested anti war protestors simple as that action condemned by the UN itself
The links do not support your claim that they targeted a business based on ethrnicity
OH SHIT. I misread Defense firms as Law firms.
I legit thought they were targeting private businesses.
Thank you for correcting me.
Yeaa targeting the military is fine. Stupid, but I don’t have any moral qualms with that.
I thought they were targeting private citizens.
"Charged with supporting" RIP democracy.
Palestine Action was banned after they breached a UK military base
theguardian.com/…/pro-palestine-protesters-deface…
…cnn.com/…/palestine-action-protest-uk-airbase-se…
Free Speech is important. But what they did isn’t free speech.
For trying to stop a genocide that the uk is complicit with.
If you start breaking into military bases to target jets, consider yourself lucky you don’t get shot.
Those people know the risks still do it for morality and again the uk is participating in a genocide if the uk do not respect international laws why do you expect people to respect uk laws
If you think the Government is breaking the law, the solution isn’t breaking the law.
In Britain, you can sue the Government if you think the government is breaking the law.
dpglaw.co.uk/uk-arms-exports-to-israel-high-court…
Also, what country do you think is respecting international law? Should citizens of all countries start attacking military bases? How does that end?
sure
better world, probably.
cOnSiDeR yourself lucky you don’t get shot while hindering genocide…
That’s a crime for the people who broke into a base, not a reason to ban an entire organization. Lots of activist organizations have had members do illegal things. If that’s all it takes for the government to ban them, that’s an easy bar to manufacture and/or selectively activate.
Their lawyer can appeal the decision in court.
We’re on a message board giving our opinions. You’re happy to definitively say what is and isn’t free speech then come back with a dumb response about how the court will decide whether a contradictory opinion is valid. I’m not talking to the UK courts. I’m stating a principle, which is already being violated by this anti-free speech government. Law does not determine correctness.
I have some boots that need licking in my closet. Wanna help out?
Funny because based on that they should ban Israel because their leader are committing act of war crimes and terrorism
Supporting what they did is free speech. That's the whole damn point of free speech and it's legitimately insane that in the UK the government just gets to arrest you for that.
Neither is it terrorism by any rational definition of the word.
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Quick, arrest her too! ~She turned me into a newt!~
I’m totally against the proscription, but the individual idiots who broke into the base vandalised 2 air tankers with no link to Palestine, but would provide a critical role in the event Russia decided to threaten the UK with nuclear subs.
It was such a dumb move, it’s hard to believe it wasn’t a Russian op using PA as cover.