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Terrorism charges

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Sienna61 · 04/10/2025 18:01

355 terrorist supporters arrested in London today so far.

AIBU to sincerely hope that every single one of them ends up with a terror related conviction and everything that goes with that?

Good luck finding employment or leaving the country with that on your record.

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BallerinaRadio · 04/10/2025 18:51

Those vicars and pensioners and inform are a bloody menace let's get them locked up that's a wonderful use of police time and resources!

Ilikewinter · 04/10/2025 18:50

If the Police just ignore all those who are showing their support for Palastine Action, what happens if people decide to protest in favour of other proscribed groups? Are we accepting that the Police will just ignore them to?

BeachLife2 · 04/10/2025 18:46

Uggbootsforever · 04/10/2025 18:30

Everything else aside it just isn’t in the public or financial interests of the country to jail vicars, the elderly and the infirm with otherwise clean records.

Why should vicars be exempt from the laws or consequences everyone else has to follow?

EasternStandard · 04/10/2025 18:44

Bagsintheboot · 04/10/2025 18:06

I'm going to make an educated guess and presume you know fuck all about our laws as they apply to terrorism and how it is defined.

Really? Are you sure

missmollygreen · 04/10/2025 18:43

Sienna61 · 04/10/2025 18:29

Are you suggesting that supporting a proscribed terrorist group isn’t a criminal offence in the UK? If so why did they arrest 350+?

You may want to read the Terrorism Act 2000 and see what it has to say about support for a proscribed terrorist organisation. I’ll give you a clue - it’s not good for the offenders.

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I didnt realise Palestine was a terrorist group, I thought that was Hammas?Intersting!

BrinkWomanship · 04/10/2025 18:42

It would put off other misguided useful idiots. I’m all for it.

MrsTerryPratchett · 04/10/2025 18:42

An emotional witch hunt to heal some unhealable wound. We can’t get the perpetrator because he’s dead, but we have all this rage and fear and grief. Let’s lock up people vaguely related so we can feel we’ve done something.

People, including elderly people, were holding signs. And you want them to feel the full force of the law?

The peaceful, sane calm need to prevail.

NoSoupForU · 04/10/2025 18:40

And do you suppose not being able to work would then increase or decrease their protest activity? So who would actually benefit?

WhineAndWine1 · 04/10/2025 18:40

Sooner the government and the world act the less people are going to have to protest against the unfolding genocide that’s happening.

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Sienna61 · 04/10/2025 18:36

Uggbootsforever · 04/10/2025 18:30

Everything else aside it just isn’t in the public or financial interests of the country to jail vicars, the elderly and the infirm with otherwise clean records.

No need to jail them. The sentencing guidelines are community service right up to 13 years in prison.

Just convict them all and give them community service. The punishment is the subsequent restriction of their liberties once they have a terrorism related conviction.

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Uggbootsforever · 04/10/2025 18:30

Everything else aside it just isn’t in the public or financial interests of the country to jail vicars, the elderly and the infirm with otherwise clean records.

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Sienna61 · 04/10/2025 18:29

Bagsintheboot · 04/10/2025 18:06

I'm going to make an educated guess and presume you know fuck all about our laws as they apply to terrorism and how it is defined.

Are you suggesting that supporting a proscribed terrorist group isn’t a criminal offence in the UK? If so why did they arrest 350+?

You may want to read the Terrorism Act 2000 and see what it has to say about support for a proscribed terrorist organisation. I’ll give you a clue - it’s not good for the offenders.

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Bagsintheboot · 04/10/2025 18:06

I'm going to make an educated guess and presume you know fuck all about our laws as they apply to terrorism and how it is defined.