Asked if this was a “dark step” to limit the fundamental right to protest, UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood replied that having a freedom “doesn’t mean you have to use it at every moment of every day”.

London’s Metropolitan Police arrested another 492 people over the weekend after a protest Saturday in Trafalgar Square, as the Starmer government accelerated its crackdown on opposition to the Gaza genocide.

The entirely peaceful protest was held to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action. It was organised by Defend Our Juries and attended by over 1,000 people. Of the arrests, 488 were for holding up signs declaring, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    Happened in Germany in the 1930s

    Happened in the 1910s, even. Hence the old quip about Bernie Sanders killing Rosa Luxemburg.

    dumbass liberals eventually ended up lined up against the same walls the communists and socialists were lined up against

    Or marched out into the snows of Russia to seize more Lebensraum for the imperial core. Or just bombed to death in Dresden or Berlin when the front lines collapsed.

    If you’re a liberal today and defending this fascist suppression against Palestine Action: you’re next.

    The hard math of living in a fascist state is standing up and getting shot today or ducking and hiding in hopes you won’t get shot tomorrow.

    Liberals made their bed back in 2009. We’re all just living in the aftermath.