• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    23 hours ago

    Just to be clear as much as this is an abhorrent thing for them to do, it won’t result in anything. The people who they have arrested have already been charged, so this changing the law doesn’t have any effect on that legal decision and pretty much no one else is associated with them.

    They’re a very small very vocal activist group. The general feeling is that they actually did go too far on this. They are not banning protests in general just this particular organisation, which in fairness, did break into a military base so I don’t know what they expect it to happen.

    So you’re probably safe from oppression, even if you were actually in the UK.

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      20 hours ago

      The general feeling is that they actually did go too far on this.

      Vandalizing military equipment to protest against a genocide doesn’t strike me as “too far”.

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        They vandalized military equipment on behalf of the russian government. The government of a terrorist country.

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            11 hours ago

            Another group ran by fsb defaced a victim statue, another broke windows of a car belonging to a government official, etc etc. all those “petty tiny crimes”, all ran by fsb.

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          on behalf of the russian government.

          Did they know? If you say so…

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            16 hours ago

            Russia has been hiring similiar gangs to do similiar things all around europe. You just live in an area safe from russia so you dont get to hear about it.

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        19 hours ago

        What does the UK military have to do with a private company sending weapons to Israel? All the protesters are asking for is the weapon companies not to be allowed to send weapons from Israel from UK soil, I’m sure they would just send them from the US but at least it’s a stance.

        The UK military isn’t doing anything in Israel so they are weird target

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        22 hours ago

        I suppose an arguement could be made that terrorists might want to break into a military base and might use this group as a vehicle through which to do that. It would be an absurd arguement but it wouldn’t be totally irrational.

        I don’t support this action by the UK government, but quite a few people in this thread seem to be of the opinion that the UK government is banning all protest which isn’t happening here. So I just wanted to set the record straight.

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          …quite a few people in this thread seem to be of the opinion that the UK government is banning all protest which isn’t happening here.

          Best to add a “yet” to the end of that sentence. This is just one more rung to the ladder.