• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Who are they supposed to have been terrorising? On whom did they inflict terror?

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        2 months ago

        hahah more or less yeah. Feels like everything is shaped around how much something terrorises shareholders.

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      2 months ago

      the judge ruled that there appeared to be a ‘terrorist connection’ as the activists were attempting to influence the Israeli government by restricting its access to weapons.

      This is suuuch a stretch.

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        2 months ago

        It’s just not terrorism, by any normal understanding of that word. It doesn’t inflict any terror on anyone, either intentionally or unintentionally, nor does it even attempt to inflict terror.

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    UK media has been barred from disclosing it until now.

    How had it not been ‘leaked’ to foreign media and reported on? It is nothing short of disgusting that the government can act with such impunity when they decide to do something that they are fully aware would generate harsh criticism.

    Nothing that the government do or decide upon should be banned from the media, with the exception of where it may affect children in a negative way.

    The whole reason that they are in their positions are because people who trusted them gave them their vote. It absolutely flies a massive “fuck you” in the face of that.

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    but, didn’t the courts declared that arresting them. qas groundless and illegal, and were all released after a year in jail. then they kept arresting them again?

    Rule of Law my ass.

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    The judge, in fact the whole process was obviously biased against the defendents. How exactly is this a fair trial? The whole thing stinks to the high heavens.

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    I guess we should also be thinking, how many people have been convicted since 9/11 under these secret courts. Yes, most were probably actual terrorists but it would be certain that many innocent people were convicted if you can’t try them in courts designed to mitigate that (jury + beyond resolvable doubt or whatever the term is)

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    It’s being done because otherwise there’s no way for the government to reimprison them, which makes them look weak on terrorism after the furore they’ve already created about PA. They’ve already spent two years in prison pretrial, which counts triple towards a future prison sentence if they’re found guilty. None of them can actually be put away for more than 6 years even if they’re found guilty, so unless the government finds a way to increase the sentencing every single activist will walk free from court regardless of the result.

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      The system is behaving as intended, and as it always has. The suffragettes were treated just as harshly.