to think that just because you say something about Israel and Gaza does not mean that you should be threatened with arrest under the terrorism act?

But you seemed to be convinced they have broken the law under this leglisation

I have given you the law - so maybe you can explain your thinking?

Don't be daft. This is police overstepping, as they often do, and it happened loads under the last government- remember Covid, and the Sarah Everard protests? Anti terror legilslation has been around for ages.

The Southport muppet was spreading racial hatred and misinformation causing violence and rioting.

The example in this thread is of someone criticising a country perpetuating extreme violence, which is permitted as part of one of our fundamental human rights Nigel Farage wants to ger rid of, freedom of speech. It's completely different.

I don't see it, but some people think 'they can always tell'. It's a tough time for anyone not conforming to identikit femininity.

Is the person in that Guardian pic a man?

Don't be daft. This is police overstepping, as they often do, and it happened loads under the last government- remember Covid, and the Sarah Everard protests? Anti terror legilslation has been around for ages.

The Southport muppet was spreading racial hatred and misinformation causing violence and rioting.

The example in this thread is of someone criticising a country perpetuating extreme violence, which is permitted as part of one of our fundamental human rights Nigel Farage wants to ger rid of, freedom of speech. It's completely different.

I was also all over the Covid leglisation when it came out about what the actual law said you could and couldn't do.

It really helps to know what you can and can't do.

Support.

(1)A person commits an offence if—

(a)he invites support for a proscribed organisation, and

(b)the support is not, or is not restricted to, the provision of money or other property (within the meaning of section 15).

[F1(1A)A person commits an offence if the person—

(a)expresses an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, and

(b)in doing so is reckless as to whether a person to whom the expression is directed will be encouraged to support a proscribed organisation

Can you explain how this person is breaking the law under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act?

No, youŕe just signalling your virtue on the Internet.

Yes, because unlike you, I'm not sneering at people who advocate for a cause from somewhere up on your high horse.

Do you need help with how to hide the thread?

Yes, but we bloody warned you all when the Southport thing happened and some stupid credulous woman who believed the internet rumour that the killer was an asylum seeker lodged in a hotel, wrote "set fire to the hotels full of the bastards for all I care" and got sentenced to two and a half years in prison. She will be let out early for good behaviour because she's just some idiot who got carried away one evening and decided to give the world the benefit of her brainless opinion on Twitter. She was prosecuted under the law that is designed to deal with someone giving a hate-fuelled oration at a neo-Nazi rally.

And you all went, eurgh, horrible racist woman, she deserves to go to prison.

And now today some other wacko was sitting harmlessly by the side of the road with a sign saying that a foreign power thousands of miles away, which is currently winning a war with its neighbour by virtue of much superior military technology, is committing genocide. An opinion which is quite widely shared. And the police showed up and threatened to arrest them, under the law that is designed to deal with someone who would, say, publicly express their support for the 7/7 bombers.

It should be dawning on a few people now that we are being governed by someone who is basically a lawyer-cop. His reaction to hearing something doesn't like is to make it illegal. He's also thin-skinned and tetchy, as we can see from the number of elected representatives he expels from his own party.

And I voted for the bastard.

The person protesting is upset about not being able to say free Gaza - but I strongly suspect that he (and many of the people on the thread) supports people not being able to say that he’s a man and use he.

compelling speech both ways

i think people should be able to say both
(but i also think there are some slogans that can become so linked to terrorist orgs that they are supporting them even if not actually saying that)

Keyboard warrior for posting on Mumsnet? Welcome to the club, then. The morally superior advocates are those who are condescending Gazans. The Thunberg selfie brigade.

Look, PAG have been proscribed as terrorists. These are the idiots, who immobilise military aircraft. Are they any better than the other hard left thugs, Antifa? They all know exactly what they are doing and what line they are crossing. I've sympathy of the zero kind. Juliet Stevenson lookalike can stand there looking as gormless as she wants. I've got no time for it.