JaeMar 5
My 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)
Show threadJaeMar 5
The request, in true Quaker fashion, is to hold all those arrested in the light 🕯️
Show threadJaeMar 5
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
Show threadJaeMar 5
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
Show threadAlathea
@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.
Mar 6 at 2:37pmWeb