Submitted 1 day ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestine-action-arrests
“Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children’s lives,” said one Metropolitan Police officer.
They can literally not do it…
Cops have an insane amount of power because they can just not do their job whenever they feel like it
I doubt it’s that easy. There will be disciplinary systems. And if they quit, I’m sure the govt will find people with fewer morals to take their place.
How can they discipline you for not seeing something? Also, no one is saying to quit. They should keep working, but just become blind to these “criminals.”
Your talking about their discretionary powers and that’s not going to be relevant on a protest enforcement action where their senior officer in command will have laid out exactly what the criteria to arrest is.
If you’re ashamed of the job you are doing, find a new job.
This isn’t like working in fast food, where you can just find another job right away. You’re talking about abandoning a career the officer has spent years building.
Principles aren’t principles if you only follow them when they’re easy.
Yeah cuffing pensioners is a real skill that must be honed over years of hard work & training
“Just following orders” you say? You could choose not to do it. You could choose to not participate in injustice. What you are doing is bad and you should feel bad for doing it.
Feddit.org users brains cannot comprehend.
I don’t, indeed. Please explain it to me.
Then they should refuse to do it, and make the police force go through the trouble of firing them.
This. Right here. Don’t make it easy on the brass by quitting
ACAB holy fuck.
If my boss told me at my job, I had to attack genocide protesters or I would be fired I think I would rip out his jugular with my teeth and then quit
They should be more like the Italian dock workers.
When confronted by protestors, do a 180, grab a sign, and join them. You were a human once upon a time. If you’re not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
quit your jobs then???
Quit your shitty job
Do you have a mortgage by any chance? Or pay rent?
Gestapo be like: I need to murder 50 more people to afford rent this month
Resign, pigs.
Quit then
Palestine Action did a lot more than simply denounced Israel.
They breached into a military base.
I think arresting their supporters is going too far.
Everyone knows what they did. That's not the issue that people have. The issue is proscribing them as a terrorist group when they quite clearly aren't a terrorist group in a monumental trivialisation of what terrorism actually is and an obvious attempt to silence people.
I had no idea what they did, wow, I like them even more now
They painted a few planes, they’re hardly the IRA.
It begs the question, in whom have they inspired terror?
Reckon it was because of the UK supplying over 500 RAF spy flights over gaza?
Nope, because the planes they damaged weren’t spy planes.
I think plenty of their supporters knew what they did and frankly they absolutely deserve to be punished for criminal damage. Proscribing them as a terror organisation, however, is waaaay disproportionate and in my personal opinion an abuse of the law. I think their supporters feel the same and are making a stand against this.
Palestine Action was banned after they breached into a military base and damaged RAF jets
Yes everyone knows that.
A lot of their supporters are good people that simply aren’t aware of what the group did.
No that is incorrect, what you are trying to do is make it look legitimate for them to be prescribed. I don’t know of anyone who both supports them but also doesn’t know what they were accused of.
Not only do the vaste majority know what they did. They know Starmer as a lawyer successfully defended very similar actions under the Blair administration. As not criminal due to intent to save lives.
The level of hypocrisy within the current government is beyond belief. Starmer is clearly the puppet of someone. What or who is the only thing up for debate.
`damaged´
Throwing paint into a jet engine really is damage. You gave to take the engine apart and meticulously clean out the paint before you can run it again, because otherwise the engine could do itself serious harm next time it’s started. That’s a very expensive thing to do.
That actually makes it a very effective act of protest, which is why the government has come down so hard on them
That’s something that would cost thousands to fix if done to a car, as the paint needs to be sanded back and repainted. On an aircraft, it could easily be a six figure job, in addition to a multimillion dollar aircraft being unable to be flown.
Calling it terrorism is silly, but it’s absolutely damage.
The public must be so terrorised in their homes, knowing the orphan crushing machines can’t come and save them when they need snap-orphan crushing.
Ougie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So stop doing it then you fuckwits