Comment on UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide

logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

for holding a sign stating her support of Palestine Action.

Saying “for backing Palestine Action” makes it sound like she was giving them money or something. But all she did was express an opinion.

Even though the Trump administration and the Republicans in our congress are actively trying to take away our freedom of speech, it’s still nice that we are explicitly guaranteed that right by our Constitution. But there is no law that matters if the government itself doesn’t follow the Constitution.

At any rate, I feel for our UK counterparts that they don’t have even an empty guarantee of free speech.

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