David McGuiness and David Milligan, well-known podcasters for a Scottish independence to which I could not be more opposed, have been arrested and charged with supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation, not because they had expressed support for Palestine Action, but because they had expressed opposition to its proscription.
South of the Border, the judge who was to have heard the judicial review of that proscription was replaced, the day before he had been due to start sitting, with a trio of veteran spooks and Israel lobbyists, while the trial of six activists has been treated to Orgreave-grade stuff about a sledgehammer. You can see the joke in that, I suppose.
And lest juries acquit Palestine Action, then trial by jury is to be abolished for everyone in most cases, as is the automatic right of appeal, while magistrates, including District Judges who are state employees sitting alone, will be empowered to imprison for two years. All while we were to be required to use digital ID to do anything much, surrounded by the facial recognition technology of Palantir, which is the Israeli intelligence that is about to install as the ruler of Gaza Tony Blair of the Tony Blair Institute that will be providing the digital ID.
This time they'll have to bump you off.
ReplyDeleteThey have already tried.
DeleteSpeaking at Zarah Sultana's rally tonight Audrey White called for deproscription of Palestine Action.
ReplyDeleteThey can do their worst to Audrey. She is a force of nature.
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