Comment on Irish literary star Sally Rooney pledges UK TV fees to banned pro-Palestine group
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Britain’s interior minister Yvette Cooper has defended the Labour government’s proscription of the group, stating that “UK national security and public safety must always be our top priority”.
Yes, the national security and public safety interests of UK people ARE best prioritized by checks notes brutally oppressing them for objecting to the atrocities of a foreign government 🙄
“The assessments are very clear – this is not a non-violent organisation,” she said
Yes, because trespassing and spray painting a couple of planes is MUCH more violent than assaulting people for dissenting opinions on the worst genocide since what Robert Evans refers to as “Dub Dub Dos”. 🙄
Support for a proscribed organisation is an offence
But frivolously proscribing a nonviolent organization is COMPLETELY fine!
and obviously the police will… implement the law."
Or at least the parts of it we and our rich friends WANT them to “implement”