• manualoverride
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    2 days ago

    ‘Thuggish Activists’ is a funny thing to call Terrorists.

    Disrupting the operation of a port in the UK is a terroristic act, doing so in an organised way with violence is absolutely terrorism.

    I guess the term ‘terrorist’ is reserved for grannies who think genocide is bad.

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      They made a specific law for disrupting “key national infrastructure”, but only seem to use it on people blockading arms factories and protesting in parliament square.

  • spud@feddit.uk
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    The Nigel Front adopting black bloc seems a concerning development