Palestine Action yes. An activism organization called Palestine Action was classified as a terrorist organization a few weeks ago by the UK government.
Some people of Palestine Action threw ink on a military plane parked on some airbase which is normally used for the surveillance flights of Gaza that the UK is doing to give the data to Israel, hence they were officially classified by the Home Secretary - Yvette Cooper - as “terrorist group” via a process which has no strict well defined criteria or Judicial oversight at all.
Because of that anybody who supports them in any way (including merelly voicing their support for them or holding a written paper with the name of the group) risks a prison sentence of (if I remember it correctly) up to 10 years.
Hence in the UK wearing a t-shirt with the words “Palestine Action” in it is a terrorist offense with a prision sentense of up to 10 years: it’s all pretty similar to the legislation Putin has to stop people in Russia demonstrating against the invasion of Ukraine, only I believe the prison sentences in Russia are actually lower.
(Britain isn’t quite at the “hold up blank piece of paper” stage like Russia yet, but judging by the copper arresting somebody wearing a “Plasticine Action” t-shirt, the police are already thinking along similar lines - the coppers in Britain are well aware that their job is to “serve the powerful” not “serve the public”)
Britain is a complete total authoritarian clown shown nowadays, though this shit is a pretty natural stage in the evolution of authoritarianism and represssion masquerading as Rule Of Law over there since around Tony Blair’s time.
so weird how we’ve mangled the word terrorism around to mean impeding a military machine or body. maybe this is just my brain turning to worm food but I could have swore it was explicitly when you kill civilians or destroy infrastructure in order to coerce a policy change. but that alteration probably wasn’t intentional or for any specific purpose.
oof. yeah. I don’t like pointing at 9/11 and desert storm as the time when it changed but it REALLY seems like that was when it changed. I was 9 and got in a lot of trouble for not saying the pledge of allegiance and even though I was way to young to have a real opinion bback then you really can’t fault anyone for coming to the conclusion that we might be the fucking baddies
Back then, people were cautioning against this lingusitic slight of hand, this overuse of rhetorically charged language… because they could lead to a world where ‘everything i dont like is a terrorist’.
But they weren’t listened to, PATRIOT ACT passed, and we now live in the world we were told we would, but even worse actually, because the internet is forever and the NSA has been doing its damndest to make a permanent hard backup of all internet traffic at its mega data center in Utah for over a decade.
Ironically what this means is that Osama Bin Laden won.
He goaded us into destroying ourselves, and we did, we went insane.
The ‘Great Satan’ is doing just a bangup job of carrying out the NeoCon plan for an American Century, what with electing an incompetent idiot rapist who has basically single handedly caused the second Great Depression, and caused us to lose almost all of our international allies.
Again with the same dum dum “all countries are bad, it’s the same as invading a people half way across the globe and trying to wipe them out” talking point when all other arguments don’t hold up.
Yeah it’s supposed to be the use of violence to spread fear, usually for some political aim. I guess we’re counting “violence” against property now too 🙄
By an amazing coincidence over-broad legislation made on top of a legally undefined word ended up used against things and groups which weren’t at all the claimed targets of that legislation.
This was also totally unexpected and nobody could ever had foreseen how they could be leveraged for such uses when those laws were first drafted and approved.
Hopscotching backward time and time again into fascism because we laser focused on bad words and not the actual languages of power.
at least it looks like the guy in the video got off the hook by simply swapping a word around so there’s that. kind of funny in the context of what you said
They graffitied two planes in protest against England’s support of Israel’s genocide, which makes them evil dangerous terrorists!
Not that I’d support them of course, I’m no terrorist - I fully support whatever genocides my country wants to participate in please do not gulag me Kid Starver oh no he’s in the hou
Palestine Action yes. An activism organization called Palestine Action was classified as a terrorist organization a few weeks ago by the UK government.
Y’all seem to have a lot going on across the pond, what with “who’s a terrorist,” or “is this dystopian?”
Have y’all considered electing a terrorist leader so that you instantly know the answers to those questions?
Ah yes, the accelerationist approach. Fight fire with fire, etc. Let’s see how it pans out!
Ah, thanks for the explanation
Some people of Palestine Action threw ink on a military plane parked on some airbase which is normally used for the surveillance flights of Gaza that the UK is doing to give the data to Israel, hence they were officially classified by the Home Secretary - Yvette Cooper - as “terrorist group” via a process which has no strict well defined criteria or Judicial oversight at all.
Because of that anybody who supports them in any way (including merelly voicing their support for them or holding a written paper with the name of the group) risks a prison sentence of (if I remember it correctly) up to 10 years.
Hence in the UK wearing a t-shirt with the words “Palestine Action” in it is a terrorist offense with a prision sentense of up to 10 years: it’s all pretty similar to the legislation Putin has to stop people in Russia demonstrating against the invasion of Ukraine, only I believe the prison sentences in Russia are actually lower.
(Britain isn’t quite at the “hold up blank piece of paper” stage like Russia yet, but judging by the copper arresting somebody wearing a “Plasticine Action” t-shirt, the police are already thinking along similar lines - the coppers in Britain are well aware that their job is to “serve the powerful” not “serve the public”)
Britain is a complete total authoritarian clown shown nowadays, though this shit is a pretty natural stage in the evolution of authoritarianism and represssion masquerading as Rule Of Law over there since around Tony Blair’s time.
so weird how we’ve mangled the word terrorism around to mean impeding a military machine or body. maybe this is just my brain turning to worm food but I could have swore it was explicitly when you kill civilians or destroy infrastructure in order to coerce a policy change. but that alteration probably wasn’t intentional or for any specific purpose.
25 years ago, the day I stopped watching TV news- the dramatic talking head told me that terrorists had attacked a US military base in Afganistan.
oof. yeah. I don’t like pointing at 9/11 and desert storm as the time when it changed but it REALLY seems like that was when it changed. I was 9 and got in a lot of trouble for not saying the pledge of allegiance and even though I was way to young to have a real opinion bback then you really can’t fault anyone for coming to the conclusion that we might be the fucking baddies
Yeah, that was the inflexion point.
Back then, people were cautioning against this lingusitic slight of hand, this overuse of rhetorically charged language… because they could lead to a world where ‘everything i dont like is a terrorist’.
But they weren’t listened to, PATRIOT ACT passed, and we now live in the world we were told we would, but even worse actually, because the internet is forever and the NSA has been doing its damndest to make a permanent hard backup of all internet traffic at its mega data center in Utah for over a decade.
Ironically what this means is that Osama Bin Laden won.
He goaded us into destroying ourselves, and we did, we went insane.
The ‘Great Satan’ is doing just a bangup job of carrying out the NeoCon plan for an American Century, what with electing an incompetent idiot rapist who has basically single handedly caused the second Great Depression, and caused us to lose almost all of our international allies.
It depends. Is it relative? Even then, sometimes we are and sometimes we aren’t.
There aren’t many nations that have their hands clean.
Again with the same dum dum “all countries are bad, it’s the same as invading a people half way across the globe and trying to wipe them out” talking point when all other arguments don’t hold up.
That was when I first noticed that word being abused so egregiously. I wouldn’t be surprised if it started before that.
Yeah it’s supposed to be the use of violence to spread fear, usually for some political aim. I guess we’re counting “violence” against property now too 🙄
And specifically on civilian targets
By an amazing coincidence over-broad legislation made on top of a legally undefined word ended up used against things and groups which weren’t at all the claimed targets of that legislation.
This was also totally unexpected and nobody could ever had foreseen how they could be leveraged for such uses when those laws were first drafted and approved.
Hopscotching backward time and time again into fascism because we laser focused on bad words and not the actual languages of power.
at least it looks like the guy in the video got off the hook by simply swapping a word around so there’s that. kind of funny in the context of what you said
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Eh. 100 years ago, “terrorism” meant “assassinating royalty”.
did it actually? that is interesting.
ohhhh because it was coined during the French revolution. I should have guessed
They graffitied two planes in protest against England’s support of Israel’s genocide, which makes them evil dangerous terrorists!
Not that I’d support them of course, I’m no terrorist - I fully support whatever genocides my country wants to participate in please do not gulag me Kid Starver oh no he’s in the hou
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