JaeMy Quaker meeting house has been raided by the police, again. The Met have arrested 12 activists at a publicly advertised Take Back Power meeting at Westminster Quaker Meeting House. Apparently more arrests have taken place outside of people who arrived late. (Source: various WhatsApp chats I’m in)
This is the event the police raided this evening. This is the type of event they now consider illegal to organise in Britain, and which they want to intimidate religious and community spaces out of hosting
The Met are saying they foiled a plot to commit "mass shoplifting". Let's see how well that story holds up, shall we? https://news.met.police.uk/news/arrests-made-to-disrupt-plans-for-mass-shoplifting-by-activists-506808
Alex 🇵🇸
"Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn@alexpalacefan @considermycat
Yeah, the line between "planning to organize a conspiracy to [some sort of illegal action]" and "thought crime" is pretty darned tenuous, & sometimes/often drawn by whoever has the better lawyers.
Yeah, the line between "planning to organize a conspiracy to [some sort of illegal action]" and "thought crime" is pretty darned tenuous, & sometimes/often drawn by whoever has the better lawyers.
Andy Fletcher@Gorfram @alexpalacefan @considermycat
history has shown it is the Quakers who come out on top in these incidents. Met police are almost certainly going to end up having to make a humiliating apology.
peter@considermycat whenever I read a police statement I'm left wondering why we gave such power to such a bunch of complete dweebs
@peterdroberts Yeah, except it won’t stop the media from uncritically framing the incident in those terms. But I guess that’s the whole point: they may be dweebs, but they have the power, and this is what power looks like
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷@considermycat Oh my giddy aunt! This is religious persecution. It is absolutely hysterical behaviour on the part of the Met, and those who are abusing police powers.
Angela Glansbury 🚽@considermycat
phew at least now the profits are safe 🙄
phew at least now the profits are safe 🙄
Glen T, heated, not stirred@considermycat Doesn't matter if the prosecution doesn't proceed. The disruption is the whole point.
@glent Exactly. The Met does a lot of this: spurious arrests of protesters (or potential protesters) to disrupt planning and intimidate people
Martin Vermeer FCD@considermycat @glent Process as punishment. MAGA gets that too.
Rachel Wright@considermycat They are really slow to learn these days, aren't they. I can't remember the last time the Quakers were on the wrong side in a question of ethics.
Kevin RussellWhat is, I'm not laughing, what is the horror the police forces are preventing?
Seriously can anyone cite the offence?
Oh my, this is the Magna Carta country, the fight them on the beaches land.
Starmer's party isnt interested in returning to power.
Violet MadderDirect action, that's what.
It can be genuinely effective, you see. Can't have that.
Christine Malec@considermycat Arested? This is terrible!
Billy Smith
john.brown_typeface@BillySmith @considermycat
"THINK, THINK
IT AIN'T ILLEGAL YET"
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Alathea@considermycat This is wild, but I can all too easily imagine it happening in the US. Except it won't be local police, it'll be the feds. And it won't just be a "raid", it'll be mass arrests and terrorism charges. We're not there yet, but it sure feels like it's coming.
Seb@considermycat It’s the vegan meal isn’t it? Dangerously radical.
Davva"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" JFK
EndlessMason@considermycat
And what is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent vegan meal?!
And what is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent vegan meal?!