{"id":84513,"date":"2025-07-30T16:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84513"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:39:16","slug":"treating-direct-action-as-terrorism-is-a-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/30\/treating-direct-action-as-terrorism-is-a-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating direct action as terrorism is a dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SaulStaniforth\/status\/1950549973952528719?t=_nxzdwyt3SWwAD8rV8q7Bw&amp;s=03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news has broken today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-84514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-30-at-16.35.18-550x501.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-30-at-16.35.18-550x501.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-30-at-16.35.18-329x300.png 329w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-30-at-16.35.18-768x700.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-30-at-16.35.18-439x400.png 439w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-30-at-16.35.18.png 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0Greenpeace UK\u2019s co-executive director, Areeba Hamid has said in response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Protests, even when they are disruptive or inconvenient, are absolutely not the same thing as terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>We support this decision and hope the judicial review will reveal this proscription order for the sinister and anti-democratic move it is.<\/p>\n<p>There is a long tradition of protest in Britain that has helped win many of the freedoms we enjoy today such as votes for women and a ban on commercial whaling. Treating direct action as terrorism is a dangerous and worrying escalation of\u00a0 the ongoing crackdown on protest and freedom of speech in the UK.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news has broken today: As\u00a0Greenpeace UK\u2019s co-executive director, Areeba Hamid has said in response: Protests, even when they are disruptive or inconvenient, are absolutely<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/30\/treating-direct-action-as-terrorism-is-a-dangerous\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,14,16,203,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-corruption","category-ethics","category-fascism","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84515,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84513\/revisions\/84515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}