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”.

    • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      And you in the UK are being told that you can’t tell the establishment “no” through peaceful protest.

    • bigfondue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      The leaders of the US and UK have more in common with each other than they do with their own people

      • Part4@infosec.pubEnglish
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        1 hour ago

        I agree.

        Although in the UK there was some old graffiti that said ‘a nation of sheep, owned by wolves’.

        I would say it is more ‘a nation of sheep, governed by wolves, owned by pigs. We’ve all heard of wolves in sheep’s clothing, well we have a lot of pigs in sheep’s clothing. And the wolves and the pigs interbreed freely, so we have all manner of porcine lupine combinations.’

        Not quite as snappy my variation though.