Comment on Police Raid Home of 84-Year-Old Priest Who Joined Just Stop Oil Protest

• ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  …approved? You’ve got to be fucking joking. If your protest is “approved” by the corrupt government you’re protesting, then you might as well stay home.

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I obviously don’t disagree. I don’t think it’s weird to report on peaceful protests that are undemocratically banned; I think it’s weird to separately report on the police doing normal police shit that happens when someone gets arrested.

    “84 year old priest has house searched by police” is newsworthy if the priest didn’t do anything illegal. It’s not newsworthy if they did.

    “Some people did something illegal which should not be illegal” is newsworthy, but that’s not the content of the article.

    It’s reporting that’s just trying to play on the emotions of the readers.

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    • WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why is it reasonable to go from “person participated in illegal protest” (which is NOT some extreme protest for an illegal topic), to “we’re going to raid their residence”? How is that relevant to the act of attending a protest. Fine or jail the person as prescribed by the (inane) law and move on, searching their home is overreach.

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not reasonable if that’s all you know about them. But there are lots of situations I can think of where it would be reasonable (no less reasonable than the initial arrest, anyway)

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    • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What if the illegality is newsworthy?

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It is, of course. But thats a different article.

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• Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ok bootlicker

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did you not expect this kind of thing to happen? Do you think expecting it means you respect the people doing it?

    Or do you not think about any of this and just respond rudely and stupidly because you don’t like that this happened and think that I’m not expressing enough disapproval for your tastes?

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    • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just because something is expected doesnt mean we shouldnt talk about it. Especially if, by omission, its assumed that nothing happened at all.

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