Matt WillemsenMay 10
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
Show threadThomasMay 10
@mattotcha The link is broken - this one works:
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
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 10

@tg9541 @mattotcha

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

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

(1/n)

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
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 10

@tg9541 @mattotcha

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

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

(2/n)

...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...

Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@tg9541 @mattotcha

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

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

(3/n)

... 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...

May 10 at 12:37pmTusky
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 10

@tg9541 @mattotcha

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

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

(4/n)

...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...

Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 10

@tg9541 @mattotcha

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

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

(5/n)

...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...

Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴May 10

@tg9541 @mattotcha

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

👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

(6/6)

...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