Forty-two arrests at Palestine Action ban protest

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2. This is so crazy man. Publicly supporting this group so obviously does not make you a danger to society who needs to be punished. Grim.

3. Banning PA was likely a stretch…but I can see the rationale. Arresting those who oppose this decision is silly and since it’s correct according to the law, the law needs changing

4. Zero prosecution for the vast majority of phone thefts, months instead of years in jail when you’re convicted of rape, and murderers out on early release. And people are in favour of all of that to keep prison places spare for people holding up signs.

   The people who think right-wing speech is suppressed at universities are earnestly in support of thoughtcrime like this

5. I think a lot of fairly normal people don’t realise the impact of a criminal record on the rest of their lives. Long after this cause has passed.

6. See they either need to follow through here, and sentence them to jail. Or admit it’s a bit mental to pretend these people are terrorists.

   If you wave an ISIS flag you’re getting jail time. Same act has been used to proscribe this org.

   Put up or shut up gov.

7. We need to stop electing political parties that tolerate authoritarian drift. Labour, Conservative, Reform; all will slowly chip away at your rights, but they won’t ever give them back.

8. What’s is absolutely a dangerous precedent is how quickly an organisation was proscribed as a terrorist entity on a technicality and now protesting that decision is getting people arrested. The accepted drift into authoritarianism is obvious to see and it appears they could just do it to any organisation if they choose too. This should be worrying for British citizens, unless you live your life completely blinkered.

9. Support terrorism get arrested.

   Where’s the discussion?

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