Mastodawn

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/25325826.man-banned-glasgow-city-centre-palestine-protest/

Maddler

@BobLefridge he clearly looks like a dangerous criminal!

Bob LeFridge

Jul 19

In Glasgow 64 year old Sean Clerkin has been charged under the Terrorism Act for holding a placard reading "Genocide in Palestine, Time to Take Action".

He's effectively banned from the city centre until his court date.

UK courts are slowly filling with groups of these elderly, peaceful "terrorists", making a mockery of the law.

#UKPol #Genocide

umbeebmu Jul 19

@BobLefridge interesting that this happened in Nelson Mandela Place.
How did Nelson Mandela protest?

Bernard Vall Jul 19

@umbeebmu @BobLefridge

Mandela and the ANC were labelled terrorists by the British state during the anti apartheid struggle. Back then the UK sold weapons to the apartheid South African regime. Today they are selling them to the genocidal Israeli regime

https://mandelascottishmemorial.org/nelson-mandela-scotland-and-the-struggle-against-apartheid

Nudeln Al Dente Jul 19

@umbeebmu @BobLefridge The story of how Nelson Mandela Place in Glasgow got its name is great! It was specifically chosen because the apartheid South African consulate was located there at the time. 😁

Nelson Mandela, Scotland, and the struggle against apartheid - Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation

About the statue | More information | Videos The statue: A celebration and a legacy This statue of Nelson Mandela in Glasgow celebrates the history of Scotland’s connection to the...

Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation

Linda Sgoluppi Artist Jul 19

@BobLefridge The courts are going to be busy for a long time when it comes to the cases going back to court for any conviction to be overturned once a really grown up gets into power. I'm so disgusted by this Government that I voted for in the hope of decency.
#Mastodon #Fediverse #ukpolitics

Helma Jul 19

@BobLefridge If they can do it with protests like these, they can do it with any protest. Democracy dies.

@helma @BobLefridge according the our Dutch constitution, demonstration can be forbitten "in the interests of the traffic" which most peaceful protests are, like whére would you protest otherwise!? On the streets right?

@feike @helma @BobLefridge

They have that in England too. Long prison sentences for talking about it.

bjo Jul 19

@feike @helma @BobLefridge Except you are a farmer on the snelweg? /s

Helma Jul 19

@bjo @feike @BobLefridge Or town square kicking down doors of the city hallo with your apparatus

Feike 🇪🇺🇳🇱Jul 29

@bjo @helma @BobLefridge that's why #politics and #judiciary are seperate branches.

Yvette Cooper Jul 19

@BobLefridge The police in Glasgow are absolutely corrupt too, one of the reasons I left that city just over a year ago. I was repeatedly assaulted, threatened, and even hit by the car of the same business owner and for some reason despite all the video evidence nothing was ever done about it. 🤷‍♂️ Absolute Stasi. 😒

Su_G Jul 19

How ridiculous; current UK govt making themselves a laughing stock! & what an extravagant waste of time & money:
'In Glasgow 64 year old Sean Clerkin has been charged under the Terrorism Act for holding a placard reading "Genocide in Palestine, Time to Take Action".' 😐
Thanks for alerting us to this ludicrous situation.

#UKPol #protest

⁂iwein⁂Jul 19

@BobLefridge the arresting officer wearing uniform and yellow safety vest is visibly struggling to read and comprehend the text.

The words Palestine and Action are in a separate line. Action is in red.

Clearly he is a thoughtcriminal

Wim Turnhout 🇺🇦 🍉 🇵🇸Jul 19

@BobLefridge You, in the UK, also need placards with this text. Do not blindley obey orders. WWII - Nuremburg.

Martin Vermeer FCD Jul 19

@BobLefridge "Fontsize terrorism"

Bernard Vall Jul 19

@BobLefridge Meanwhile, the UK courts can't cope with the back log of real criminal cases murder, rape, assault, fraud, etc. Yet the police harass peaceful protesters who condemn genocide. Probably, charges will never be brought and if they are juries won't convict. The intention of the police is clearly to intimidate protest. Well this pensioner will continue to protest the genocide at every week.

Peter Blok Jul 19

@naefool @BobLefridge Swamp the system.

@naefool @BobLefridge
Merely arresting, with little hope of conviction or even needing to charge is a powerful dissent suppressor. Your house gets raided and your devices disappear, for at least months and you get labeled a terrorist.

I have only briefly been detained for political reasons under Labour authoritarian legislation and it was not pleasant

Ken M Sweeney Jul 19

@BobLefridge those cops should be named and shamed. Put so much fear and embarrassment into their lives that they will be forced to step away. They are enemies of your state and will not be on your side in years to come.

René Jul 19

@BobLefridge Fed by the evil #zionist who hijacked #labour. #gaza #genocide

@BobLefridge "freedom of speech and expression" and all that, or did he do something wrong? Like ignoring a areal prohibition, or whatever it's called in English

Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷Jul 19

@feike Nah! Even a dopey copper can read big letters like that, from a few metres away.
They'll say he is supporting Palestine Action...which he can deny. @BobLefridge

@Tooden @BobLefridge so support for palistine action is a crime!?

I haven't red the UK's civil code of crimes, so, you can tell me anything…

@Tooden @BobLefridge i mean the Dutch gouverment is officially 'befriended' with every head-of-state of the countries which it is not in war with, so, i find that to be support for both Russia, Israel, and Palestine.

wolfie 🐺Jul 19

@feike @Tooden @BobLefridge Palestine Action is a protest group who have been proscribed in the same way as a terrorist organisation so any show of support for them is against the law, this also means any protest against what is happening in Gaza can easily be deemed support for a proscribed group and so an arrestable offence

@wolfie @Tooden @BobLefridge aha, i did not know, thanks

Bit strange though, howcome one cant share their opinion that they are in favour of an organisation. One can say, for example, to endorse North Korea, without legal consequences.

As long as one is not recruiting people, or giving such organization money, it should be allowed, i think.

wolfie 🐺Jul 19

@feike @Tooden @BobLefridge yeah a lot of rights have been eroded under the guise of defending us against terrorism in the last 25 years

@wolfie @Tooden @BobLefridge 11 September 2001 you mean?

wolfie 🐺Jul 19

@feike @Tooden @BobLefridge that definitely was a big reason yeah, though the law that the uk government uses to proscribe organisations it deems terrorist organisations is actually from 2000

Barney Dellar (he/him)Jul 19

@feike @wolfie @Tooden @BobLefridge Palestine Action have officially been designated as a terrorist group. Expressing support for terrorism can get you 14 years in prison.

Damien Jul 19

@feike @Tooden @BobLefridge Palestine Action is the name of an organisation that has recently been prescribed as a terrorist organisation under UK law, after they spray painted the engines of an RAF plane as a form of direct action protest.

Feike 🇪🇺🇳🇱Jul 20

@damien @Tooden @BobLefridge the Dutch equivalent would be forbidding #ExtinctionRebellion, which some voices in the #SecondChamber want to do actually.

@BobLefridge also in the UK you cant appealantly offend anyone, even though that is against #EVRM or whatever the English abbreviation is.

ghost_shit: antifa AF Jul 19

@BobLefridge This fucking dumbarse cop...

Pam C Jul 19

@BobLefridge I thought the prisons were all full. Yet they can still find space for protestors, or those who don't have a TV licence

Billy Watt Jul 19

@BobLefridge Sean Clerkin is a publicity seeking twat

The whole of the operation branchform hit job on the SNP is based on his complaint

He does this regularly and has convictions for wasting police time

Giliell Jul 19

@BobLefridge Meanwhile the corner of Spain we're currently at is full with Palestinian flags. Maybe it takes a place that knew brutal oppression and cultural genocide to know both when it sees them.

@Giliell @BobLefridge

Scotland knows - A third of the country is empty for a reason

Stachelgarten Jul 19

#UKPol
#Genocide #HumanRights #CriminalJustice

The judiciary in many countries is just a silly laughing stock. It no longer has anything to do with justice. A war criminal like Netanyahu, who is accused of crimes against humanity and genocide, is held up as a statesman everywhere and a senior citizen who demonstrates peacefully against an injustice becomes a terrorist.

Bård H. (lvl 48 🇳🇴)Jul 19

This stuff is just one of several really embarrassing reasons why UK is currently on my "HELL NO" list for all kinds of trips and visits

I doubt I'm the only one staying the fuck away from regimes like this

It's not personal
It's human right

Juho Mäntysalo Jul 19

They say cops work in pairs because one of them can read, and the other write.

I guess the one in the picture is the one with the rule book.

@iju @BobLefridge

Traditionally you needed a third to keep an eye on the two dangerous intellectuals.

Princess Brielle Labingi Jul 19

@BobLefridge

ACAB know your enemy they walk among us

@dbdean

❣️a standard deviant +/- gravy Jul 19

@BobLefridge ❤️‍🔥

Why is such a dangerous "terrorist" allowed to walk free in other places?

Abuse of the term terrorism is deeply offensive to those who know the hard way what terrorism is.
#authoritarian

ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Jul 20

@Fasgadh @BobLefridge It's not exactly 9/11, is it?

London Eastfield 🇵🇸Jul 19

@BobLefridge I love Glasgow 💚 🤍

Wouldn't it be terrific if *thousands* of people convened at the same time with similar placards? Just spitballin' here...

Matthew Hill Jul 19

@BobLefridge So I guess there's no such thing as "free speech" in the UK, then.

(honestly I don't know; I can't say I'm familiar with UK law on basic human rights)

Kyle Memoir 🍉Jul 19

You have to understand, what's pictured here is isn't terrorism, but a pacifist senior wearing a placard in protest against it is...

photo: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters via https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-destruction-rebuilding-1.7343234

#genocide

Hudson Jul 19

@BobLefridge Cop looks to be sounding out a word.

Krisvdm Jul 19

@BobLefridge
This is just so wing on so many levels. There is the right to protest.
And why would any police officer be willing to arrest someone that is trying to stop a genocide?

Negative12DollarBill Jul 19

@BobLefridge
Just to be clear, a placard reading "Genocide in Palestine, Time to Take Action" isn't illegal, but they're arresting him on the basis that it's a kind of stealth placard for a group called "Palestine Action", i.e. that it comes down to font sizes?

James Wood Jul 20

@negative12dollarbill @BobLefridge Yes.

Maddler

Jul 19

@BobLefridge he clearly looks like a dangerous criminal!