British thug cops ape Trump’s Pro-Israel/Anti-Palestinian fascism by arresting Quakers???
This is madness…
Met raids Quaker meeting house and arrests six women at Youth Demand talk
Police have raided a Quaker meeting house and arrested six women attending a gathering of the protest group Youth Demand.
More than 20 uniformed police, some equipped with Tasers, forced their way into the Westminster meeting house at 7.15pm on Thursday, according to a statement by the Quakers.
“No one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory,” said Paul Parker, the recording clerk for Quakers in Britain.
“This aggressive violation of our place of worship and the forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when a society criminalises protest.
“Freedom of speech, assembly, and fair trials are an essential part of free public debate which underpins democracy.”
In a video posted on Youth Demand’s Facebook page, a woman who claimed to have attended the meeting described it as a “publicly advertised welcome talk” about the group. She said police seized attenders’ phones and laptops.
…the fucking Quakers?
That’s who the enemy is now if they are protesting Gaza?
That’s how insane the level of over policing free speech against Israel’s genocide has reached?
Quakers and masked secret Police arresting you on the street?
It’s happening in Germany as well…
Germany moves to deport four foreign residents for pro-Palestine activism
The four slated for deportation have not been convicted of any crime but are alleged to have participated in protests against Israel’s assault on Gaza.
…this is where we are headed?
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Hmmm, I wonder why the zionists conspired to get rid of the more popular Jeremy Corbyn, and put Keir Starmer (chief protector of pedophile Jimmy Saville) in complete control of the UK’s former ‘Labour’ party?
Hmmm, I wonder why the democratic west is now banning politicians that question the narrative and
fight back against this insanity?
First they came for the Palestinian protesters and I said nothing.
Then they came for the Quakers and I said nothing.
Finally they came for the Zionists, turned around and said nothing.
“arrested for praying outside ”
If someone was arrested for praying we’d all agree with you, but we know that’s unlikely to have been the reason, it being far more likely that it was for obstruction, public disturbance, noise, intimidation of patients, ignoring requests to move on etc. No laws against praying (rather unfortunately ).
You need better evidence Frank as cherry picking is about the politest way to describe your examples. The woman already was under sanctions for that activity so maybe she should have devoted her prayers to transforming the culture that encouragers wanton behavior instead of seeking to shame what could be a difficult decision by the female involved. It would be great if we didn’t have abortions but you need to prevent the cause not keep moaning about what some people think is the solution.
‘On suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.’ is the cause given for the arrests.
A few nights ago I was at a meeting of the Forest and Bird Protection Society (could that be a conspiracy?)
We explored ideas to protest destruction caused by overfishing and mining (could we be a public nuisance?)
I really do not want to be tasered and handcuffed so I suppose we will have to go underground now and hold secret meetings.
I wonder if this is how peaceful protestors turn into violent extremists?
Starmer is learning about the cost of unprincipled opportunism. By endorsing the “Corbyn’s Labour is antisemitic” beat-up, he has liberated the perpetrators of that lie to go after and punish free speech everywhere. And now Sir Keir is having to genuflect more and more abjectly to the Israel lobby as time goes on.