• Obinice@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    Good thing we caught all those dangerous terrorists before they could do anything evil!

    Imagine if all those 474 extremist insurgents hadn’t attended a public protest, we might never have caught them. Who knows what dastardly deeds they could have wrought from deep within our own society in the shadows.

    They could be your colleague, your postman, your neighbour, your cousin, or even your own wife! Trust no-one!

    We must remain vigilant against this evil menace and be grateful the police anti terror squad is watching us at all times, just in case one of us should turn 🫡💂‍♀️🇬🇧

    • then_three_more@lemmy.world
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      your neighbour, your cousin, or even your own wife!

      Don’t forget your nan or granddad!

      Jacob Ecclestone, 86, said: “I believe in freedom of speech. What this government is trying to do is deeply authoritarian. And it’s extremely dangerous.”

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      Had they not been arrested, they could have assisted genocide, committing war crimes every week or killing civilians, aid workers and reporters by the dozens. Only the worst terrorists could allow such things to happen.

      Oh, wait…

    • sunbytes@lemmy.world
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      A lot of them were retired people, and a lot said they had been medics or military before they retired. So it’s new demographics coming out on this one.

      The home secretary then came out and said some vague stuff about “there’s stuff we can’t tell you about. Just trust us bro, we’re fighting evil with this”

    • jimmy90@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      did you hear about the PA terrorists that vandalised a shipment bound for ukraine?

      it wasn’t a granny, but part of the same fucking useless organisation

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        Did some quick reading on this. A few articles linked back to Belgian news site 7sur7, so I’m referencing that article here:

        • The group who did this was Stop Arming Israel, not Palestine Action.
        • They targeted OIP Land Systems because they’re a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, who are a major manufacturer of weapons sold to Israel.
        • OIP used to sell military vehicles to Israel, but haven’t for a couple of decades.
        • The result was a one-month delay in delivering the vehicle shipment to Ukraine.
        • The CEO described the activists as “sympathisants du Hamas”, which personally makes me mistrust anything else he says.

        I don’t mean to condone the damage they did - Ukraine needs all it can get - but it would be easy to read your message and think they’d deliberately taken action to hurt the Ukraine defence effort by raiding a company unconnected with Israel’s genocide.

      • mrdown@lemmy.world
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        29 days ago

        Did you know that supporting occupations is being a terrorist supporting terrorism?

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    29 days ago

    This reads just like the news we had of antiwar protesters in russia a few years ago. Except you know, it’s the uk this time.

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      The elites only ever have one answer when the poors disagree with them: send in the police to arrest and hurt them until they stop.

      It’s the same in every country.

  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    28 days ago

    The Metropolitan Police said the number of arrests was the largest made by the force on a single day in the last decade.

    That’s really not the flex they think it is.