I mentioned the despair of the young in my previous post.
The words of this young woman seem to sum that up particularly well.
Britain in 2023. Take a cold hard look at this, and realise that things are set to get much worse. pic.twitter.com/zFw00dfShh
— Martin O'Neill (@martin_oneill) May 3, 2023
She just wants a future. She walked slowly down a road to say so. She was arrested for doing so.
There was another protest in London yesterday. It was against the new low-emission zone. There were few police present, apparently. I have not heard of any arrests. But it blocked Trafalgar Square.
I have also said this morning that we still have the right to talk about alternatives to mainstream thinking. That is true. But for how long will we be able to share them?
This young woman will, under new powers, now probably get a ban from protesting. Her right to a basic freedom will be contained so that the profits of Shell and BP might be unlimited in order that human life on this planet might end.
Let's value what we have, and use it. The risk is, we might lose it.
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Well, that got me fairly choked up I must say – it makes a change being choked up by something like this and not the diesel fumes that are slowly killing us all.
To me this tells you what is going on in our mis-functioning police service – it’s being used politically and not for what it is designed for.
To do this, you need unthinking underpaid thugs with right-wing sympathies, Unfortunately they also come with other traits like misogyny, racism and a weird interpretation of what is legal.
Poor girl – but the dignity she had will see her through life – and she’ll need it.
Descent into full on fascist state.
https://skwawkbox.org/2023/05/03/armed-police-arrest-33-for-peaceful-protest-vs-israeli-arms-maker-including-palestine-action-founders/#respond
If she ends up in court she will not have the right to say that to a jury, either. If she does she will probably be in contempt of court and get a prison sentence.
Hope she is brave enough to do that, though. The majority of the British public is behind them now.
Agreed to all that
And not all courts are imposing this rule, but some judges are
[…] By Richard Murphy, a chartered accountant and a political economist. He has been described by the Guardian newspaper as an “anti-poverty campaigner and tax expert”. He is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University, London and Director of Tax Research UK. He is a non-executive director of Cambridge Econometrics. He is a member of the Progressive Economy Forum. Originally published at Tax Research UK […]