A man who shared posts on his Facebook page backing Palestine Action has told how he was hauled from his bed by police and arrested on suspicion of breaking terror laws in a terrifying dawn raid.
Mat Cobb, 52, a part-time cleaner, is now facing potentially life-changing criminal charges after becoming the latest member of the public to fall foul of the controversial decision to ban the direct-action group.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim…
Man arrested in terrifying dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action
Exclusive: Baroness Chakrabarti said the latest arrest demonstrates the dangers of the ongoing proscription of Palestine Action, which is being challenged in the courtsAmy-Clare Martin (The Independent)
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David Mitchell
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@futurebird
This is the road to Stasi-style repression: watch what you say to who and when, you could arrested for your opinions.
The groundwork for the current wave of fascist style government isn’t a novelty invented by Trump, the groundwork for it was laid in “Anti-terrorism” acts already underway and then amped up in 2001 in the UK, Canada, and the Homeland Security Act in 2002 in the US. People protested them then because they saw the potential for misuse.
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in reply to David Mitchell • • •People protested: but of course in the grand scheme of things, most people just shrugged, and said, “yeah, things are broken, but the alternative is just as bad probably, and fighting is hard, and it won’t really be used against me,” and then just got on with life. While others made jokes about “towel-heads” and learned better to weaponize hate, and to get others to accept more violence and oppression.
Angie
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Israel is asserting its' dominance over the UK government.
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Passenger
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •The UK government can't fix the country's actual problems, so it's trying to fix made-up problems instead in the hope that people get confused between the two.
myrmepropagandist
in reply to Passenger • • •The UK government could fix the problems if the people who benefit from those problems not being fixed could just take the hit to their bank accounts and power.
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Passenger
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Honestly I'm not sure they could. The more I live here the more I think that the problems could have been fixed decades ago, but now they've become deepened to the point where the damage is now hurting the bank accounts of the wealthy instead of augmenting them, and even then they're powerless to fix it.
Like, even if you somehow gave me Stalin-level powers and a completely compliant population, I'm not sure I could fix things. I could turn the clock back a while on the collapse, but the problem persists. (That level of power would definitely corrupt me and make me a far worse person though.) Britain is a crowded island with an aging population accustomed to an unsustainably high standard of living, with decaying and incrementally-built infrastructure, with many of its natural resources exhausted and many others strained to the limit.
At most, all the government can do - whatever party is in power - is to pick scapegoats and punish them to distract peop
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Honestly I'm not sure they could. The more I live here the more I think that the problems could have been fixed decades ago, but now they've become deepened to the point where the damage is now hurting the bank accounts of the wealthy instead of augmenting them, and even then they're powerless to fix it.
Like, even if you somehow gave me Stalin-level powers and a completely compliant population, I'm not sure I could fix things. I could turn the clock back a while on the collapse, but the problem persists. (That level of power would definitely corrupt me and make me a far worse person though.) Britain is a crowded island with an aging population accustomed to an unsustainably high standard of living, with decaying and incrementally-built infrastructure, with many of its natural resources exhausted and many others strained to the limit.
At most, all the government can do - whatever party is in power - is to pick scapegoats and punish them to distract people. More often, they let the Right-wing media pick the scapegoats for them, and just do the punishing bit. Socialists can't make it better, and there's a limit to how much worse fascists can make it.
Like many countries, I think collapse is coming, and I think it'll come sooner than people expect.
Passenger
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But that said, I think we can win.
As Tolkien put it, "[I bring you] the doom of choice... none may live now as they have lived, and few shall keep what they call their own." The old world will die, but that doesn't mean we can't build a better one.
MissConstrue
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Agreed. Short of an ecological event that wipes out human advancement; i.e. a solar storm that irradiates the planet, a meteor causing another Dryas event, or some other global catastrophe, I believe in humanity's innate goodness, hardiness, and ingenuity.
We can create a fair and equitable financial system. It is possible. The maths are right there. We just have to get rid of a few hundred people first. (And by get rid, of course I mean, convince them by rational argument, and not, for example by guillotine or firing squads. I would never suggest such a thing!)
myrmepropagandist
in reply to MissConstrue • • •IDK we could show them some historical films and helpful props perhap.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to myrmepropagandist • •Facebook has been on a downward spiral for a long, long time though. Many FB people have left and the ones that remain have social groups to maintain, by and large.