By that very definition the US insurrection should be reintroduced to jail
LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s important to remember that the headline refers to the group Palestine action, which has carried out vandalisation of historical pieces, occupations of property, destruction etc (see here). So it’s a group that fits the UK definition of an extremist group.
Some political groups (or even branches of them) can be political cults trapping members with coercive control It’s not always idealistic well meaning people. The court that decreed them an unlawful group will have seen a lot of info we didn’t.
I think we need to look deeper than the headline
Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 week ago
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Double Jeopardy. You need to get them for something else… Not that it would be hard to find something, I guess
LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’d personally class that as terrorism. And they absolutely should be in jail.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Coming into this thread, thinking that you couldn’t legally support Palestine in the UK anymore, I feel like the headline was just a bit misleading.
LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yep it’s total clickbait, it’s bordering on misinformation
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s rather misleading, yeah, but also, “technically correct”?
While we are clearly discussing an actual criminal group and not just people protesting for Palestine, the implications from a decision like that are a bit wider.
Civil disobedience is a crucial tool for democracy, but it’s easy for that to be taken too far.
And at this time that Russia is waging a shadow war in Europe, we probably should be little wary of any even paramilitary-esque groups, despite how important it is to protest the genocide in Gaza.
Surely there’s still plenty of legal ways to do that?
LadyButterfly@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sorry I’m not sure I understand. Are you saying that the criminal group shouldn’t be banned because the genocide is wrong?