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
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
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