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[davidallengreen@mastodon.green]

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Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not

The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously

By me at Prospect

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/74703/holding-a-placard-is-terrorism-disruption-in-balaclava-is-not

[kimsj@mastodon.social]

@davidallengreen
Thank you for calling out the Government and police for the farce around their differing approaches to various forms of terrorism.

If only those with the power to act would heed your words!

[davoloid@mastodon.me.uk]

@davidallengreen Yeah, it's terrorism. It's a systematic, organised movement to intimidate ordinary citizens and circumvent democratic and civic processes in favour of a particular ideology.

[gadgetgav@mas.to]

@davidallengreen Here’s another maybe for the end of your article… maybe the police already know about these groups not through infiltration but by simple membership. Maybe that’s how they can cause such disruption and intimidation with impunity.

[davidallengreen@mastodon.green]

@gadgetgav maybe

[epistatacadam@toot.wales]

@davidallengreen another excellent analysis. Thank you.

[vlekje@mastodon.social]

@KimSJ @davidallengreen 'Various forns of terrorism'? By labelling protests this way, you are surrendering to the government's narrative. Protest should be allowed to cause some friction, to use qualificatons like terrorism in this way you are helping criminalize all protest

[lazarou@mastodon.social]

@gadgetgav @davidallengreen we're all thinking it, pretty much under every story about this I've posted somebody has replied with those sentiments.

How many coppers, ex or current, are in those ranks of Blackshirts?