Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?
When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/police-raid-london-quaker-m
Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?

When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrests

The Guardian

@tg9541 @mattotcha

#UKpol #UKpolitics
#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

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I've been saying ever since the announcement of the #Brexit Referendum, that the land where 20th century human rights originated, that conceived the #MagnaCarta and the #BillOfRights, belongs into the #EuropeanUnion. Geographically and economically, it really has no sound choice.

#Türkiye, on...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/police-raid-london-quaker-meeting-house-very-worrying

Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?

When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrests

The Guardian

@tg9541 @mattotcha

#UKpol #UKpolitics
#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

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...the other hand, having being only partially settled by #colonists from the inventors of #democracy, #Athens, is a different story entirely, politically and geographically.
President #Erdogan has been leading the country towards an #authoritarian model of society, ever further away from the #EU's principles.

With the...

@tg9541 @mattotcha

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#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

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... advent of #PredictivePolicing and the continuing crackdown on the right to #PeacefulProtest in the #UK, it seems that the #Starmer government seems to be following down that road.

👉The despicable use of anti-terror force by 30 #policemen in a place of #worship in #London against six young women👈 discussing...

@tg9541 @mattotcha

#UKpol #UKpolitics
#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

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...international #politics over tea 👉makes #British politics incompatible with core #EU values.👈

Inevitably, the time will come when a #UK #PM will not only come knocking at the #EU's doors, but literally banging at them, b/c in an antagonistic world of #TradeWars, the only viable possibility for...

@tg9541 @mattotcha

#UKpol #UKpolitics
#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

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...relatively small countries on the periphery lies in strengh through unity. 👉De facto, the #UK is an #enclave of the #EuropeanUnion.👈

Unless, which is not unlikely, the majority of the #EU's country will be ruled by rightwing or neofascist governments, #Britain is likely to fail the test of #democracy if it...

@tg9541 @mattotcha

#UKpol #UKpolitics
#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

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...continues down this authoritarian path.

I agree, 👉this #London incident is a #MinorityReport inspired #PreCrime, as well as an #Orwellian #ThoughtCrime transgression by the #UK police.👈

Hopefully, there will be a high-level investigation.

//

Here's what happened in #London:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/police-raid-london-quaker-meeting-house-very-worrying

Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?

When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrests

The Guardian
@HistoPol @tg9541 @mattotcha See Casey Report.
The Casey report reveals 15 years of establishment denial

Eight years ago, when the BBC drama Three Girls was released in May 2017, the UK watched in horror. Reviewers described the series as “powerful and brave” – it attracted more than 8.24m viewers. The d

New Statesman
@HistoPol @tg9541 @mattotcha The Casey Report is about the Met!

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#CaseyReport

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Ah, gotcha. THX, John.

I had heard the issue in these past, but not of that important report.

An important lesson can be drawn from this criminal investigation for almost ?(?) all countries:

👉Recording the #Ethnicity of a perpetrators is no systemic #Racism per se.
On the contratrary, the lack of doing so may lead to constitutional blindness. 👈

"*The Casey report reveals 15 years of establishment denial*
...

@tg9541 @mattotcha

The Casey report reveals 15 years of establishment denial

Eight years ago, when the BBC drama Three Girls was released in May 2017, the UK watched in horror. Reviewers described the series as “powerful and brave” – it attracted more than 8.24m viewers. The d

New Statesman