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 clearly now the police looking to intimidate Quakers into not allowing protest groups to meet on their premises – part of the Home Office’s overall goal of intimidating and legislating peaceful protest out of existence
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.