cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52394067

Britain will introduce a new criminal offence banning protests outside the homes of elected officials, judges and local councillors

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    4 hours ago

    You’re thinking in terms of pro-palestine protests, which explains the backlash. Now imagine it’s the opposite, and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (Tommy Robinson) and his chud squad is protesting outside the house of an LGBQT ethnic MP because they decide to vote against selling weapons to Israel. How would you feel about this law then?

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    14 hours ago

    UK, do you have to keep proving that the US came from you?

    How close qualifies as outside their home, anyway?

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    19 hours ago

    Class warfare is alive and well in the UK, the wealthy continue to oppress through state violence while they outlaw peaceful protest. If you outlaw the peaceful way that just leaves the other thing.

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      16 hours ago

      That’s why they spent decades running the “war on terror” angle. To make the working class believe violence against oppressors is never justified.

      Meanwhile the government has a monopoly on violence, and uses it whenever the political class, oligarchs, or corporations are threatened.

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    England is rapidly becoming the reason why every nation mocks them.

    Oi, no bothering the rich in office. You don’t have the licence to speak your mind. Report to your Department of Truth immediately.

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    18 hours ago

    This is actually good.

    I don’t believe politicians that you disagree with should be threatened.