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jeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

UK Climate Campaigners Get 'Utterly Disproportionate' Sentences

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jeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago
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UK Climate Campaigners Get 'Utterly Disproportionate' Sentences | Common Dreams
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A U.K. judge handed down shockingly harsh sentences to peaceful climate activists, sparking outrage and disbelief. Is this justice or suppression of dissent?
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    Good - these people are a fucking menace. Their antics are potentially putting lives at risk (re blocking emergency services). Personally these groups should be classified as a terrorist organisation and dealt with accordingly.

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      What puts more lives at risk, protests or the massive global famine that the climate is rapidly headed towards causing?

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        Oh for the record I was involved with Just Stop Oil but left two years ago - I realised the the organisers actually don’t care about climate change but simply won’t to cause disruption.

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          Says the one regurgitating the Daily Mail narrative 🙄

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            yawn🥱

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        Obviously you’ve never had your journey blocked by these nob-heads…if you have well you must be masochist.

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          Oh no! My journey!

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            🎵 Don’t stop! Believing!

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            Perhaps you don’t value your time or the safety of those around you. But there are those of us who do.

            I have no problem with protests but when you directly affect or impede people who have nothing to do with what you’re protesting it is a very serious issue. In this case it is equal to a conspiracy to kidnap someone.

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                  You sound desperate and cringey

                  Says the person who thinks inconvenience should be illegal.

                  Freedom of movement implies the freedom not to move (while in the middle of a road), not the freedom from temporary obstructions.

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                    Interesting… so what are your thoughts on the practice of Kettling then? Police have used this tactic on protests that were properly permitted but may run afoul of the incumbent parties views.

                    Using your logic this seems like it is just a small inconvenience for the protesters.

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettling

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                  Lol. OK buddy. Go back to your plastic bubble now

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            Which might be the back of an ambulance…or perhaps you are going to see a relative who is dying… but hey who cares about that?

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              Oh no! My shifting goalposts! Waves wand: “Argumentum ad Passiones!”

              Did it work? Is he gone?

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      According to the BBC it was actually the police who stopped traffic. All these guys did was hang out up by the route signs with some signs of their own.

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      lmao

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