UK police arrest Greta Thunberg under Terrorism Act

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1. >British police arrested Swedish activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday during a pro-Palestinian protest in London, according to UK-based campaign group Defend Our Juries.

   >The group said Thunberg was arrested under the Terrorism Act after holding a sign stating support for prisoners linked to Palestine Action, an organization that the British government has proscribed as a terrorist group.

2. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. One would assume that she will join in on the hunger strike. Some may assume that was her outright intention, get arrested, join the hunger strike and use her fame to draw attention to it.

3. Oy Bruvs gonna oy bruv. It’s good to remember that the US* had Nelson Mandela on the terrorist watch list until 2008.

   *yes, this is the UK not the US, but the idea of intentionally wrongly labeling freedom fighters who are fighting an oppressor as terrorist is a common thread here.

4. As an Indian, being labelled as a terrorist by the British isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Especially seeing that the issue was created by them more then half a century ago

5. Ah good ol’ UK, arresting everyone like a good ol’ “free country” is supposed to.

   Oh wait, what freedom of speech? My bad, gov’nah, the “safety of the public” comes first!

6. Doesn’t charging people for terrorism when they are peacefully protesting kind of *incentivize* them to go for more extreme acts in the name of their cause?

   Seems like an ill thought out law, aside from the obvious anti-speech and anti-protest aspects of the law.

7. Because supporting Palestine apparently makes you a terrorist. Not those murdering Palestinians. Not those going into their homes and claiming them. Not those bombing the living fuck out of people that have no shelter. No, not them. It’s the *victims* that are the terrorists, and speaking up for them is terrorism. WHAT KIND OF FUCKY FUCKERY IS THAT??

8. on one hand, i dislike thunberg, on the other, i dislike the british government…
   i guess my dislike for the government wins over that for thunberg.

9. The terrorism label has lost its original meaning. The kid diddlers just use it to really drive a point home when they don’t like plebs doing certain things LUL

10. In my day, terrorism was doing stuff like bombing buses full of people on their way to work, or flying passenger aeroplanes into buildings, or blowing up fully loaded 747s over Lockerbie.

    I have no clue what terrorism means today. I’m happy I’m old and on the way out, this new world of subverted verbiage sucks.

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