Exclusive: Baroness Chakrabarti said the latest arrest demonstrates the dangers of the ongoing proscription of Palestine Action, which is being challenged in the courts
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The UK has been arresting people for saying offensive things for a long time. It’s just that most of the victims were on the right, and most people on the left were cheering for it. Now that the laws are being used against their side and their causes, they’re sad and outraged. It’s a tale as old as democracy: people don’t care until it materially affects them. Every time we give up rights or give governments more power, no matter how justified we think the cause today, those powers will eventually be turned against us.
Count Dankula only got an 800 pound fine and no jail time. He also wasn’t raided, and I doubt they took his fingerprints and DNA either. These people are spending a days in jail for no fucking reason.
The dog doing a Nazi salute is stupid. Really stupid. But what is happening here is that they are discussing something serious. If count Dankula was arrested for speaking about some new law or whatever it would be an entirely different case.