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”.

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      The UK government’s reaction is so extreme that Israel having proof of something like child sexual abuse commited top British Labour politicians in the current Government seems likely (remember that from just the tiny slice of info that came out, both Prince Andrew and Mandelson were involved with Epstein).

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      Nah, it’s the mental illness and catastrophic human problem of religion. These nutcases think their invisible sky daddy is commanding them to do it.

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        I agree that is definitely a part of the problem. In the United States we see the evangelicals blindly and fiercely supporting Israel because they believe in the apocalypse. The zionists want to bring forth their messiah as well. Bibi believes he has been chosen to bring forth the messiah. A lot of issues here are stemming from and being justified by religion.

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          Uh huh, and that definitely isn’t driven by the mental rot of religion?

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      You’re not tongoing at all imo.

      And now that we’re on the subject, has anybody ever been as far to go make to do look more like?