It’s not just democracies ramping up policing efforts and handing out unnecessarily punishing sentences to protesters. The world seems to have become more hostile since the pandemic took our economies for a tumble. On a societal level it makes sense that government institutions are clamping down on civil disobedience at the same time that disobedience is ramping up because of economic/social/climate/everything else problems
There’s been a sustained effort by fossil fuel lobby groups to clamp down on this sort of thing and bribe governments into handing out grossly disproportional sentences.
It’s not just democracies ramping up policing efforts and handing out unnecessarily punishing sentences to protesters. The world seems to have become more hostile since the pandemic took our economies for a tumble. On a societal level it makes sense that government institutions are clamping down on civil disobedience at the same time that disobedience is ramping up because of economic/social/climate/everything else problems
There’s been a sustained effort by fossil fuel lobby groups to clamp down on this sort of thing and bribe governments into handing out grossly disproportional sentences.
Which is a pretty clear sign that those protests are working.
Sounds logical in theory, but in practice one blocking a road gets the same jailtime as a minor abuser.
It just goes to show how car-supremacist the court system is.