My awkward opinion is that Palestine Action shouldn’t have been proscribed and doing so was a draconian mistake, but that the protests valorising them show there is no cause the English middle class can’t make to be about the English middle class.
They were charged with a crime when entering the airbase and there is a well established process of jury trials to deal with this. By its reaction the government has turned a question of trespassing into one of freedom of speech.
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Timo, Palestine Action has done much more than entering an airbase. It's all documented and has nothing to do with freedom of speech. It's all about keeping YOU safe from harm.
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Demonstrating in support of proscribed groups was already illegal. I don't see the freedom of speech issue as nothing has changed in that regard. One remains entitled to oppose the proscription of terrorist groups or the designation of particular groups as terrorist.
