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muriel_volestrangler

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13. "way outside the topic"? The topic is the UK government making support for Palestine Action a criminal offence

Reply to Beastly Boy (Reply #12)

Sun Jul 6, 2025, 07:56 AM

Jul 6

Read the OP again. It's about criminal definitions.

You're the one trying to take it off topic with your claim that vandalising military equipment is violent.

If you really think that this is for Brits to sort out, then you shouldn't have joined the thread. Feel free to stop injecting bad takes on it.

The problem with the Terrorism Act of 2000 is that it includes action that "involves serious damage to property" as terrorism if "the use or threat is designed to influence the government". 45% of the UK thinks Israel's actions in Gaza amount to genocide (only 15% support Israel's actions in Gaza), and Palestine Action is using non-violent action to oppose it. But Starmer, rather than thinking about what the country actually wants, has criminalised support for that non-violent action.

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More than 20 arrests at protest in support of Palestine Action after UK ban comes into effect [View all] Omaha Steve Jul 5 OP

Maybe breaking in to the RAF base & spraying red paint into the engines of $300 million planes was a bad idea? EX500rider Jul 5 #1

Oh yes, property damage is terrorism, but starving and incinerating babies is not. AloeVera Jul 5 #2

Really sucks that Hamas started all this, huh? cabotnn22 Jul 5 #5

"Activists and their supporters have said the group is non-violent and advocates civil disobedience" Beastly Boy Jul 5 #3

They'd be shot dead by the IDF or GHF mercenaries... AloeVera Jul 5 #4

More likely they'd be shot by Hamas cabotnn22 Jul 5 #6

How do you propose your mutually exclusive speculations could possibly take place? Beastly Boy Jul 5 #7

Now you think fences are people too? AloeVera Jul 5 #9

Again... What? Beastly Boy Jul 5 #10

And if everyone reads the full Britannica article, it's clear it restricts violence to acts against people muriel_volestrangler Jul 6 #11

Only if everyone READS the full Britannica article, not READS INTO it. Beastly Boy Jul 6 #12

"way outside the topic"? The topic is the UK government making support for Palestine Action a criminal offence muriel_volestrangler Jul 6 #13

It takes an act of violence to vandalise anything. Vandalism, including vandalising military equipment IS violent. Beastly Boy Jul 6 #14

I think the UK is really stretching the terrorism label AZProgressive Jul 5 #8

However they sprayed the paint into the engines EX500rider Jul 6 #15