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    Terror arrests surge by 660% due to Palestine Action ban

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    1. BobMonkhaus on

      Surely it’s surged by 660% since PA clowns organized protests designed just to get arrested and “overwhelm” the police system?

      Their “You can’t arrest us all” plan didn’t work out too well.

    2. Backstabar on

      Kinda dilutes the meaning of the word terrorism to call all of the sign holders terrorists. How about we limit terrorism charges to people who actually commit acts of terror?

      No one is terrorised by old people holding cardboard signs.

      Edit: if terrorism is politically motivated violence, and attacking a plane is terrorism, then every country in a war is a terrorist nation. In addition, the act of arresting is violent in and of itself. Police act on behalf of the state, which is political. Therefore any arrest could be terrorism.
      I’m not being glib, I genuinely don’t know why some acts are terroristic and others are acceptable. Is it just whatever the government disagrees with could be terrorism?

    3. ea_fitz on

      This was never a sustainable decision, proscribing that group. It has completely ruined what terrorism means in the public conscience.

    4. L96 on

      One thing I find very funny about this whole saga is the effect it will have on ethnic crime stats, and the awkwardness it creates for right wing types who obsess over them.

      For years we’re going to be able to clap back with (let’s be honest) White Brits being far more likely to be arrested for the most severe offense in the land.

    5. Trundlenator on

      I feel like this is leading to a false conflation type situation where a headline like ’massive terror arrest incident’ will have people think ‘oh it’s more Palestine action arrests’ when instead there may have been a major terrorist attack but people will mistakenly misinterpret news of it because ‘terror arrest’ now applies to an actual terrorist being arrested and also a Palestine action person being arrested.

    6. wheredidiput on

      The bigger issue, is PA wouldn’t have had to take action had not the British government decided to support another government in a genocide. The police are failing in their duty to not investigate the British government, it is offence to aid a genocide in British law under 2001 International Criminal Court Act.

    7. fitzgoldy on

      It’s amazing how stupid so many people are.

      You can support Palestine without supporting a proscribed group.

    9. ObjectiveHornet676 on

      And once again reddit is swamped with accounts defending people who attacked British defence infrastructure. I’m not saying you’re all Russian bots… but some of you are.

    10. spubbbba on

      Reading the comments here I’m reminded of this tweet.

      “A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now. “