“I support Palestine Action.” I’m probably not allowed to say that, or write that. And we are told that we don’t understand, we don’t know the facts, Palestine Action has targeted Jewish businesses, as well as people. But we are not going to tell you who or what or which.
The proscription of Palestine Action was wrong in principle and in practice. The method by which it became law was about as sneaky and disingenuous as you could imagine.
Right wing Yvette Cooper and her people could imagine such a procedure, however. And did.
Here’s how. Under the Terrorism Act of 2000, some 84 organisations have been proscribed. They are, almost without exception, Islamist extremist, white supremacist organisations which have carried out or threatened to carry out violent atrocities on a massive scale.
For the last five years, Palestine Action has been attempting, in its own words, to prevent ‘military targets in the UK from facilitating gross abuses of international law’.
This aim is not particularly contentious in the UK, where the Government is at odds with the people, and its activities have not been the subject of any political measure until now. After all, there are a plethora of criminal laws to address these activities.
The problem is that juries are not always reliable. They don’t take the word of the authorities as gospel and have in the past - Starmer himself will testify - acquitted individuals on the grounds that there was good reason for the damage.
So, out comes the full force of government power. We will proscribe them. We will classify them as terrorists. And get the police to carry the can.
But how to get this insane abuse of power through Parliament? Let’s find some unproscribed idiots and add them to Palestine Action in a single amendment order. Ah yes, here we are. Maniacs Murder Cult. Tick. And our old friends the Russian Imperial Movement. Tick.
And just in case MPs see through the ploy, we’ll start a whispering campaign. Palestine Action has been doing things which we can’t tell you about but tare absolutely terrible. Really, they are.
“I shall do such things what they are yet I now not but they shall be the terrors of the earth.”
It was enough. Our gallant fighters for liberty and democracy in the Commons voted 385 to 26 to diminish the civil rights of the people of the UK and make a mockery of parliament.
As Zara Sultana said, “To equate a spray can of paint with a suicide bomb isn’t just absurd, it is grotesque.”
And Labour MPS wonder why we’re going to start a new party.
Today from the everysmith vaults: Playing now, and acting as a form of balm to soothe my anger is the latest addition to the vaults. It is of course the new album from The Swaps, Fast Train, released a couple of days ago. If this represents the direction Beth, James and Adam are heading, it’ll do for me.
The proscription of Palestine Action was wrong in principle and in practice. The method by which it became law was about as sneaky and disingenuous as you could imagine.
Right wing Yvette Cooper and her people could imagine such a procedure, however. And did.
Here’s how. Under the Terrorism Act of 2000, some 84 organisations have been proscribed. They are, almost without exception, Islamist extremist, white supremacist organisations which have carried out or threatened to carry out violent atrocities on a massive scale.
For the last five years, Palestine Action has been attempting, in its own words, to prevent ‘military targets in the UK from facilitating gross abuses of international law’.
This aim is not particularly contentious in the UK, where the Government is at odds with the people, and its activities have not been the subject of any political measure until now. After all, there are a plethora of criminal laws to address these activities.
The problem is that juries are not always reliable. They don’t take the word of the authorities as gospel and have in the past - Starmer himself will testify - acquitted individuals on the grounds that there was good reason for the damage.
So, out comes the full force of government power. We will proscribe them. We will classify them as terrorists. And get the police to carry the can.
But how to get this insane abuse of power through Parliament? Let’s find some unproscribed idiots and add them to Palestine Action in a single amendment order. Ah yes, here we are. Maniacs Murder Cult. Tick. And our old friends the Russian Imperial Movement. Tick.
And just in case MPs see through the ploy, we’ll start a whispering campaign. Palestine Action has been doing things which we can’t tell you about but tare absolutely terrible. Really, they are.
“I shall do such things what they are yet I now not but they shall be the terrors of the earth.”
It was enough. Our gallant fighters for liberty and democracy in the Commons voted 385 to 26 to diminish the civil rights of the people of the UK and make a mockery of parliament.
As Zara Sultana said, “To equate a spray can of paint with a suicide bomb isn’t just absurd, it is grotesque.”
And Labour MPS wonder why we’re going to start a new party.
Today from the everysmith vaults: Playing now, and acting as a form of balm to soothe my anger is the latest addition to the vaults. It is of course the new album from The Swaps, Fast Train, released a couple of days ago. If this represents the direction Beth, James and Adam are heading, it’ll do for me.
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