Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk · 6h There are a number of events taking place in London this weekend.
Anyone attending should be aware that officers policing these will act where criminal offences, including those related to support of proscribed groups or organisations, are committed.
I can’t believe the guy who sent someone to prison for a tweet would do this smdh
“such as flags”
So wait, is there a Palestine action flag, or are they saying it’s illegal to have a Palestine flag?
Direct actionists have just started calling themselves “unaffiliated” or “yvette cooper”. the org also seems to have decent opsec and never had any members beyond its founders and loosely-organised cadres that did workshops in a few cities.
I imagine a few actionists will get charged if they have email or phone comms that link them to PA before the ban, but the UK courts are nothing if a bunch of sticklers for rules and will probably be lenient (as with PA pre-ban) if cases come through the system. Proscription orders cannot apply retroactively.
the risk will be to regular folk who will be harassed and arrested to break up Palestine marches, other solidarity events like fundraisers, and organisers of direct action training/workshops.
Considering the Filton 18 is already being held without trial under terrorism charges, I wonder how much difference it will make to deter or punish actionists. Because if the UK govt never needed proscription to indefinitely hold these people, what is their real goal?
Courageous move by Keir Starmer, in the Yes Minister sense.
Seriously though it’s just such an absurd overreaction. They hemorrhaging off their own politicians! They’re arresting 84 year old upper class priests!
I think it’s a massive misstep by the govt. They are pushing PA organising underground for the moment, but dont seem to acknowledge how it will just re-emerge with a new name and new spokespersons just like National Front did.
All the while they’ve publicly and openly shit the bed trying to look tough like a school prefect who got picked on a few too many times. It doesn’t make them look good to the fascists, their own base, or anyone really.
Courageous move by Keir Starmer, in the Yes Minister sense.
I don’t think he expects to get re-elected anyway.
oh he will get re-elected, no different to how the neoliberal and fascist caucus won reelection in the US for over a generation.
Who’d vote for Reform-lite when they can vote for Reform?
most polling orgs are predicting a reform win
they are the overt fascists
Saw some reports the cops are telling people they can’t even display things like “Free Palestine”, shit is going downhill fast
How long before someone puts on a Guy Fawkes mask and starts throwing knives at cops?
For the hard of thinking, this means the group named “Palestine Action”. It does NOT mean “action and other stuff in favour of Palestine”.
You want to protest the war? Fine, go on right ahead.
You want to put up a “Palestine Action” poster, or wear a “Palestine Action” T-shirt? That’s not fine.
If you’re still struggling to understand the difference, just ask and I’ll be happy to clarify.
"For the hard of thinking, Trump is only going after CRIMINAL immigrants. It does not mean he’s gonna deport your grandma or send your family to a camp. "
Inb4 “Bad comparison! Trump is an absolutely unique evil!” Despite the people they would be defending with that statement supporting genocide and criminalizing acts against said genocide.
For the hard of thinking, this means the group named “Palestine Action”. It does NOT mean “action and other stuff in favour of Palestine”.
So they can further enforce the legal precedent and framework of prosecuting those who actually have the courage, will and bravery to do what must be done and shove a knife directly into the Zionist feeding tubes that keep the illegitimate state of “Israel” going?
But yeah, this wont be used to expand definitions to cover entire anti-zionist groups doing whatever they can to stop their shit-hole island bankrolling and arming a state competing with the Nazis to kill as many people as possible of a certain skin color.
Did your mother put out cigarettes on your soft-spot as a kid? Can you clarify that one for me, motherfucker?
Dumb and wrong, they will absolutely be using this to further criminalize support for Palestine
no one was questioning that lmao. but you’d be naiive to think this ban will be enforced to the strictest and most generous definition of the law.
If you’re still struggling to understand the difference, just ask and I’ll be happy to clarify.
just a bit weird you think you’re the official spokesman of the british police tbh. it isnt like reddit, you cant just declare yourself moderator lmao
“for the hard of thinking” says dumbest motherfucker alive
Yum yum yum, I too love the taste of sole.
Shut the fuck up Nazi.
Please clarify why you think I’m a Nazi? (I’m not, btw. But maybe I inadvertently expressed something in a Nazi-y way; I haven’t done enough Nazi studies to know what figures of speech to avoid.)
Maybe its apologia for fucking genocide and accepting the criminalization of the only group on your putrid Nazi shithole island doing anything meaningful to oppose it?
You’re a cowardly little worm. And your “For the hard of thinking” comment just comes off as the most insufferable reddit brain smugness and I would have responded hostilely to you just for that but you had to go on to act like the big boy genius in the room by saying “Ummmm well ackshually that group is illegal now you dum dums!”
So yes I hold the same contempt for you as I do for someone that openly advocates for the genocide.
Thinking of putting up Palestine stuff in my windows just to dare them to come get me.
as long as it isnt support for PA or displays its logo, you have every legal right to do so.
Of course anything construed as support for PA post-ban online could be used if your devices were seized, but that’s a lot of resources the cops are only willing to use if they think you’re an organiser or actionist. Stay safe!
In gommulist nourf korria,
The left has lacked a singular, uniting point of focus for the last few decades, a rallying cry. We may need to thank politicians for creating one.
When everyone is a terrorist, no one is…
The UK is completely off the rails right now.
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Who do you think funds their propaganda?
I’m so sick of takes like this that are borderline nazi ZOG bullshit.
agreed. Isreal, the tiny nation that could never have existed without the backing if the West, is not, and never has been in charge. Even the people actually paying for the propganda are based in the US (Adelson being the biggest example)
Also that
No definitely not also that.
Wow this is just like North Korea and China
What are we a bunch of Asians?
Let me get my calipers and I can check, one sec
Insane clown country
They should make another group though with a similar ideology and plan of action.
Literally hours after the ban, actionists smashed up a supplier of Elbit systemsin Scotland and simply claimed they were autonomous. The only real difference is they’ve stopped wearing red overalls that were Palestine Action’s calling card, and used hivis jackets instead.
IMO these actionists are PA in all but name. Note the “drop Elbit” on the wall, which is the core campaign demand of PA. As long as that goal carries forward and actionists continue, the government has failed.
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5283601/cromwell-tools-glenrothes-palestine-graffiti/
There’s video of the action but it seemed to have been wiped from instagram since it was under a Pro-PA account.
Here’s news on the org naming itself after Yvette Cooper (zionist home secretary) https://www.thenational.scot/news/25291394.new-direct-action-group-yvette-cooper-emerges/
Ya line to hear it!
They already have and they’ve named it after some zionist politician lol
Beautiful lol
So like, that means a UK person can’t retweet something that praises them or something like that or they’ll have to pay a fine or something?
But in the anglo world they’ll still be getting shared around, so a lot of UK people might do that by accident thinking it’s fine, can that happen?
Yup. Of course these laws are arbitrarily enforced because that would involve rounding up thousands of people with more bark than bite.
They don’t care for the lone poster on twitter, but they DO care about organisers and people putting out feelers to become actionists. The rest are selectively harassed or made examples of every now and then to make examples of people.
Courts are backed up as it is, and prison spaces are low, so they’re being strategic right now.
The question is, what happens if too many people start doing things they can’t ignore.
Up to fourteen years in prison if they want to make an example of you.
