Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms

lath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean, it was actual sabotage. Those engines will need complete rebuilding.

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  • cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was sabotage, but to call it terrorism implies they were endangering human life. If they wanted to do that, they could have sabotaged the engines in a way that wasn’t obvious, and would cause failures when the plane took off. This was clearly meant to be visible to everyone, they even filmed it. It’ll cost money to fix, but it never endangered human life.

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    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So you don’t count IRA bombings as terrorism because they often phoned in warnings to evacuate the area?

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      • cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Those are bombings in a public area, and some people did die.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m pretty surprised so many people are ok with UK defensive capabilities being sabotaged.

    Being against Israel’s war crimes is one thing (and obviously IMO the correct response), but breaking into an RAF base and destroying the engines of multiple planes obviously isn’t something that should be tolerated or encouraged.

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Taking targeted action at those who perpetrated the sabotage would be my preference, rather than blanket bans on a protestors. This is the wrong way to solve the problem.

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Agreed. But this isn’t a blanket ban on protestors.

        This specific organisation operates in cells, has caused and advocates for violence.

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    • lath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There’s a difference between being ok with acts of sabotage and expressing schadenfreude when witnessing such a high level of obliviousness.

      I mean, it’s painfully obvious to most people that acts of sabotage ought to be expected in our current times and have been happing for some years now even. Yet to be so unprepared for this kind of thing that any random person can just waltz into your military base and have a field day with your aircrafts, it deserves to be shamed. It’s humiliating and rightfully so.

      Everyone expected better and if this is the status in every EU country currently at risk, then making fun of this kind of pure stupidity is very much warranted. Otherwise, we’re truly and absolutely fucked in case of an actual conflict.

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You experience satisfaction seeing our defence sector being sabotaged? Particularly when we’re in a proxy war with Russia and the world in general is becoming more hostile?

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