Comment on Palestine Action arrests make up 94% of all UK terrorism arrests, Home Office data shows
Zombie@feddit.uk 1 week ago
And how many of those were pensioners?
How many of those “terrorists” only act of “terror” was quietly holding up a piece of cardboard?
The police and government are the true terrorists of the British population.
Right, so are these people actually being arrested under Terrorism laws or is that News source just being inflammatory?
I would guess the latter.
If they were arresting so many people under the prevention of terrorism, we’d be under Martial Law right now.
They are actually being arrested.
Yep they are being arrested for supporting a proscribed organisation. They know what they are doing - it’s not like they accidently used that particular form of words.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
The entire reason you have to lable a mundane act terrorism is, otherwise you can’t legally arrest the person engaging in it. It highlights that maybe you should not have a special legal term ‘terrorist’, that lets you do whatever against your citizens. Especially if it’s easy to just lable old grandma nitting a free palestine shirt a terrorist.