Exclusive: Absconded activist refuses to be “prisoner of war”
electronicintifada.net
Sean Middlebrough says he and fellow Palestine Action activists were “kidnapped” by British counter-terrorism police at the point of a gun.

Middlebrough got involved with Palestine Action in January 2022 to protest Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine and its gross human rights violations.

In January 2024, he and five others were detained for allegedly plotting to shut the London Stock Exchange down. Middlebrough was remanded and charged with conspiracy to cause public nuisance.

That was the second time he had been remanded to prison on charges that were later dropped.

So, this is the guy who vanishes while on temporary bail while the rest of Palestine Action is behind bars. Were any of the others granted temporary bail? How did he escape while under police surveillance?

Is asking these kinds of questions considered gauche? If so, how did that come to be? Are you comfortable assuming this man is both alive and not a police informant? This is btw pretty much the only thing anyone in the western left has done to lift a finger so it’d make sense for it to be planned by cops themselves - just saying. It’s not like any of you people show initiative regularly - harsher words could be used

  • haui@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    19 days ago

    Bad analysis, individualizing systemic problems, advocating for adventurism.

    Whats up bro? You got a bad day?

  • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    19 days ago

    Bad post.

    None of the other PA arrestees had a brother getting married so its likely none of them asked to get out for a few days. The guy has been in prison for 2 months. If he thinks his life will be better on the lam, good for him.

    There is no reason for the cops to have infiltrated PA. They didn’t need undercover operatives to bring PA down because they weren’t hiding who they were. They didn’t need witness testimony because PA videoed they actions and posted them on the internet. They didn’t need to agitate to justify a crack down because other countries without any actions by PA have had a crack down.

    Get some sleep. You are jumping at shadows and being a dick.

    • mistermodal@lemmy.mlBannedBanned from communityOP
      214·
      19 days ago

      It’s 5PM. You go to sleep, burgerbrain. God this site sucks, I know more than all of you and you’re so fucking condescending. Go join the SRA and tell yourself there’s no reason to infiltrate it, as if there is some serious cost-benefit analysis to spycops behavior and not cops raping people for fun while being fed unlimited superprofits, in orgs they practically run themselves. Oh sorry maybe it’s just optics issues since you’re all impossible to interact with in person to the point a driving motivation for me leaving the country was never having to rely on anyone like you people again. See this is me being a dick, the post I made was being cautious which is as I joked about, not allowed, because you’re all so anxious that simple questions about people like Calla Walsh and her association with Fergie Chambers etc make you all square up. You have no allies, you are alone, reproducing the same imperial system, or more likely failing at trying that and giving up your flesh and blood to it. Done nothing but directly taunt the Palestinians with false hopes and teach them to talk like you absolute thumb-sitters, for years, and scold people for pointing out the only people to do literally anything basically shot a rubber band at Israel just to say someone did something, just to claim there is a resistance in the imperial core. There isn’t

      In fact I see no reason to bother with you people at all past this point, now that I have the RSS feed for comments set up. It’s not like anyone comes here anyways. Lost all the GZD people immediately. Somehow harder to have a conversation about diamat here than twitter. Good luck