A retrial of Palestine Action activists (acquitted of burglery charges in Feb) is on bogus "terrorism” charges.
"This is what a stitch-up looks like," says UK MP Zarah Sultana.
She "invoked parliamentary privilege to reveal [what] the British public was officially forbidden from knowing."
Reportedly, the jury will not be told that "if convicted, they & 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists."
See UK Hansard 14 Apr and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkzxhQU6QIM
@DrALJONES The only message the people behind this sort of thing understand is this:
Treat us as terrorists, get treated as terrorists would treat you.
I'd have to guess you know the UK left the quaint notions of justice & human rights behind after 9/11.
They mimicked US "terrorism" laws... on imperial instruction.
Remember Blair and Iraq?
"Terrorism" now applies to, eg, peaceful protests for climate, animal rights, eg, filming animal cruelty, and so forth. It's totally chilling.
The rationale: even peaceful protest can interfere with corporations' right to maximise profit.
December 15, 2011, Boston – Today, animal rights activists who allege their freedom of speech has been violated by the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) filed a lawsuit asking the court to strike down the statute as unconstitutional.
@heinragas I believe they're being tried on different charges. I think in the original trial there were also charges on which the jury was unable to reach a verdict, which are also applicable for retrial
Yes, terrorism charges.
I think I read that, at the time of the break-in, the desired laws weren't yet in place. Don't quote me.
I don't know how others feel about this, but I am getting extremely ANGRY that the #British #ukgovernment is FLOUTING the rule of law to hide their own #corruption
I am proud of the #nanarchists who have shown themselves to be braver than I am.
I am also totally dissatisfied with British #justice that appears to have been corrupted in the Elbit case.
It appears that evidence was FABRICATED
#starmer should be ASHAMED
The term really took off after 9/11. Had you forgotten Blair? That's when the label "terrorism" became the standard (& invincible) way of criminalising dissent.
As far as I know, the earliest example of this in the UK was about a hundred years earlier, when the government labelled suffragettes as terrorists.
Oh, interesting. And of course many of their actions were "terrorist" in the standard definition of causing terror in the population. Unlike those of Palestine Action....
@DrALJONES And?
Lets be clear, just because the BBC don't understand the difference, HAMAS ARE TERRORISTS, the PLO were TERRORISTS.
At the very least, GBH , criminal damage should be dealt with, but this spineless government is unable to defend our shores, let alone keep terrorists OUT OF THE UK.
No amount of digital anything will solve this, only prompt action to deport anybody committing crimes against this country. Terrorists don't deserve human rights when committing atrocities.
@roger_w_ You seem to have quite thoroughly demonstrated that you have absolutely no idea what you're commenting on here.
The story is not about Hamas or the PLO. In fact, it's not about middle-east politics at all - it's about UK politics, and the right to protest.
Let's see - any other examples? A few organisations come to mind: Irgun, Hagganah, Lehi, Herut
And then there are the individuals: Avraham Stern, Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir for example.
Fun fact: Lehi's weekly newsletter was titled Hamaas.
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