• StarlightDust@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    This crackdown has been unprecedented. The solidarity protest at HMP Wormwood Scrubs had to be cancelled because the guards were harassing the prisoner and claiming that he was trying to escape. All these prisoners are yet to face trial.

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      3 days ago

      Innocent until proven guilty, except if you oppose the ruling party.

      But GREAT Britain is a dEmOCraCy with strong Bri’ish values!

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      I don’t think they have any coherent view on it. They just think that the people are unjustifiably punished, so any action on their side is right, and any action against them is wrong. The notion that sometimes it’s necessary to go through a process to fix an injustice rather than every action to oppose such an injustice being correct and justified, doesn’t enter into it.

      It’s not one I believe in.

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        Not sure they are required to have a coherent view on the solution.

        As the complaint is that the prisoners are being treated like terrorists. For comiting property damage. At a time when their org was in no way classed as terrorists.

        The hypocrisy of solutions is part of the point of the complaint. IE they should not be treated the way they are. So folks objecting to the treatment have zero requirement to define a solution that allows the gov to continue to treat them that way.

        Put bluntly novaras claim is they demands are.

        Stop calling protesters terrorist’s. Stop supporting genocide. And treat them based on the crime they committed. Property damage.

        The government choice is to agree to this. Or suffer the media backlash of their actions.

        The idea "Their options are let them die or force feed them”. is just a totally false statement.

        Their job is to point that falsehood out. Not provide a solution that allows the gov to continue abuse.