cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34639023
The British government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group on 5 July 2025 under the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000 after members of the network vandalised RAF aircraft at Brize Norton.[12] Since then, British police have arrested 744 individuals for showing support to Palestine Action, many of these resulting from a sit-in on Parliament Square on 9 August 2025.[13][14] Civil liberties groups have criticised the ban as “conflating protest with terrorism.”[15]
It’s not like they have mobile phones and could just look up what plasticine is!
OPPRESS or …learn stuff? Pfft
I thought maybe ’plasticine’ was a reference to plastic explosives, but one web search and hey! I’m less ignorant than I was 2 minutes ago!
It’s very cute that the cop on left is so unsure he needed to hold hands while they waited, it’s the personal touches really!
So any words close to the Palestine Action is illegal?! Lol so laws against grammar.
They’re anti-semantic
What a couple of pudding-brained stooges these pigs are.
Well, the Venn Diagram of Sherlock fucking Holmes and Constable Cadets is a two ring circus.
When you create stupid laws expect stupid results.
At least one person was actually arrested for wearing this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/protester-arrested-wearing-plasticine-action-t-shirt-palestine-gaza-protest
About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’
“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’ And then I walked free, while all the real heroes are the people that are actually getting arrested.”
At least the cop wasn’t a total ass about it.
I think the UK government is being incredibly stupid and fascist lately with shit like this.
The arrest would be the embarrassing part either way. You cannot define terrorism in a way that does not make it a matter of perspective.
Hearing a cop admitting wrong feels like a fantasy in the US
Hey, if it was the US, due would be chewing on concrete with 3 or 4 'roided up cops yelling: “stop resisting!” while kneeling in his neck. I’m not saying the fascism shown here is cute but at least it isn’t so comically over-the-top as it is on this side of the pond.
Sort of, he was arrested and then de-arrested, and then began selling the shirt online.
I am so SCARED. I mean just LOOK at this guy. Look at his socks! He’s clearly out to menace society. Phew. So glad those officers were there to set him straight and give him a good scolding. What would we do without these sorts of laws?! Society would just collapse. I’m sure of it.
Fascists don’t think, they do! The fact they’re doing the wrong things don’t matter to them just so long as they can tell themselves they’re “doing something about ‘the problem’ (that they made up in their heads).”
The Brits sense of humor in the face of apocalyptic fuckery is top notch I tell you what.
Vandalism was enough for them to outlaw the whole group? How many of those 744 were vandals?
Probably wouldn’t see the same with roles reversed
