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In the encounter, which she filmed, one officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.”
He went on to say that the phrase “Free Gaza” was “supportive of Palestine Action”, adding it was an offence “to express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, namely Palestine Action is an offence under section 12(1A) of the Terrorism Act”. The officer told her she had committed that offence.
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The ban on Palestine Action, the first against a direct action protest group, came into force on 5 July after a high court judge refused to grant the group’s co-founder Huda Ammori an injunction suspending it while legal action was pending.
One of the police officers told Murton they were “trying to be fair”, adding: “We could have jumped out, arrested you, dragged you off in a van.”
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This is what inevitably happens when freedom of thought, speech and expression is limited for essentially any reason. Once the tools are in place, they will be used, abused and inevitably end up in the hands of someone you disagree with.
The takeover of our government by Israel approaches completion.
Fuck this country. Fuck the government. Fuck Israel. Fuck everyone who stands for cruelty. Justice for Palestine. Free Palestine. Fuck the false leaders.
Dystopian. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
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People often forget that both 1984 and Brave New World were explicitly set in the UK.
1984 wasn’t set in britain, its Airstrip One, duh
You can’t always tell when an article isn’t about an incident in the USA, unless they feel the need to specify that the police were armed.
“proscribed organisation” was a giveaway for me. It just sounded like a British legal term that nobody would use here in the US.
I doubt many Americans could define "proscribed: without googling it. Obviate, circumscribe, auspice vs auspices, expatriate … few people in the US knows what those mean either. ‘Effect’ vs ‘affect’ is barely understood.
Another good indicator is that the police in the US don’t actually know what the law is most of the time.
and wouldnt care if they did know.
IIRC there was a precedent that police aren’t expected to know the law, as long as they act “in good faith” under their best understanding of the law. This resulted in an almost immediate end to all attempts to provide legal training to police, because ignorance of the law is actually a defense, but only for cops.
I think you’re right though it varies by locale. I live in Minnesota and here police officers are required to have a college education and part of that is learning and being tested on both the criminal and traffic code. You’re not expected to have it all memorized but you are supposed to have reviewed it and understood it.
Asinine.
