Amnesty International called the mass arrests “deeply concerning”.
“The protesters in Parliament Square were not inciting violence and it is entirely disproportionate to the point of absurdity to be treating them as terrorists,” said Sacha Deshmukh, the organisation’s chief executive.
“We have long criticised UK terrorism law for being excessively broad and vaguely worded and a threat to freedom of expression. These arrests demonstrate that our concerns were justified.”
“We started this genocide, and by Lizzy’s cold pedophile-enabling corpse, we’re seeing it to the end”
So free.
Wait, the planes weren’t even damaged?? They just spray-painted them??? It would be bullshit to call it violence either way, but I assumed they sabotaged them in some way which I could at least see a fascist describing as a violent act, but Jesus Christ labeling an organization as violent and terrorist for one act of graffiti is truly beyond the pale.
Just to be clear sorry paint over flight surfaces is not something anyone flying can just ignore.
It is very able to bring down an aircraft if the wronge surfaces are stuck due to such paint. And most modern aircraft surfaces do not allow huge movement spaces. (Excepting some limited early stealth models that needed to grow at speed. But materials tech has hugely changed since early 60 when early stealth aircraft leaked fuel at take off)
Is it terrorism likely not. I at least cannot make an argument where tempory lack of 2 aircraft is a threat of terror.
But it is damage to the aircraft that requires funding to correct before use.
Fair, so it was at least effective direct action.
Agreed. Likely in the low millions £ to fix by skilled specialists.
UK right now is giving me some serious Russia 2018 vibes (except even worse because this brand of authoritarian bullshit aligns with the US). I suspect if things go in this direction and there is no revolt of some sort, UK might start a dumb special military operation somewhere. Oh wait there are already helping to genocide palestinians. Maybe this is actually Russia 2022 vibes 🤔
Westerners whenever their countries do fascist shit: “this is something foreigners would do!”
I’m from Russia just for context. The playbooks are exactly the same down to the justifications (“protect the children” for destroying online privacy and anonymity, “terrorism” for arresting any unfavorable protesters).
Yeah, and Russia didn’t invent that play book; the West has been using it since long before the Russian Federation existed.
Sure, just highlighting the similarities here.
