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It was only after Miles Pickering arrived at Scotland Yard following his arrest that the police realised they had got things embarrassingly wrong.
The T-shirt worn by the Brighton engineer did not express support for a proscribed terrorist group, instead the words on it read “Plasticine Action” and inside the letter “o” was an image of the stop-motion character Morph giving two thumbs up.
Speaking to the Guardian, Pickering admitted it was designed to be an easy mistake to make, appearing to look like the logo of Palestine Action, the protest group banned under terrorism legislation last month, but text underneath the logo reads: “We oppose AI-generated animation.”
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About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’
“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’ And then I walked free, while all the real heroes are the people that are actually getting arrested.”
The reall heroes indeed. Still this Chad got to draw some needed attention to the outright stupidity of it all…
I mean, embarrassing actions tend to do that.
Interesting that this guy was able joke about it, that’s not really the personality I was expecting.
Precisely why I thought that quote validated highlighting. He’s in the purgatory between following orders and thinking for himself.
The way he brings it does endear me.
‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me’
“As it should be, you fascist pig”… would have been my reply.
I think it is safe to say that specific cop was just following orders that he doesn’t really agree with.
Calling him a fascist is the same over generalization they are doing to anyone supporting the “terrorist” organization. And when you say the cop should quit rather than follow orders… you don’t know thier situation. They may have a family depending on that job.So what I am saying is, stop just calling everyone a fascist. It cheapens the insult for those who truely deserve it.
Every Nazi was ‘just following orders’ did that make them less of a Nazi?
The answer is no… going along with ‘orders’ is being complicit with them, following fascist orders makes you a fascist… so yes… he is actually a fascist… and that now makes you a fascist apologist.
So by your logic, the jews we worked in the factories helping to make the rockets for van braun were nazis too. They were just following orders. For both them and many non-jewish Germans, if they didn’t, they would have been killed or worse.
In hindsight, when George W. Bush realized he could reuse the “terrorist” label to infringe on country’s and people’s rights, that’s when the whole descent into fascism started.
9/11 was the beginning of the end of the West.
Bin Laden would be so proud. Converting the west into an authoriatarian dream and in the case of the USA, even with a strong religious taste.
The judicial coup that brought Dubya to power was the beginning. 9/11 was just a convenient pretext but the surveillance state and the undermining of civil rights was always going to happen.
Brooks Brothers riot… No we can’t count the presidential election votes because there’s dudes in suits jumping around yelling outside
It started when we designed economic and political systems that pools power in fewer and fewer peoples hands. Bush Jr and his actions are just a symptom of the problem.
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Ironically enough that was also the exact moment when the terrorists won the War on Terror.
Which ones? The Muslim or the Xian flavor?
So, call a group a terrorist group, and they lose all their rights.
Literally yes.
Fascists LOVE this one weird trick!
For such a long time Trump railed against antifa calling it a terrorist organization. Any protest he didn’t like was labeled as antifa, allowing him to use full force in breaking up protests. Meanwhile antifa wasn’t a real thing.
Correct. And when the mean terrorists suddenly become useful to you, declare them a splinter faction, take them off the terrorist list, put them in a suit and warmly receive them when they visit your presidents.
To their credit, they did release him once they realised their mistake.
Bloody funny though.
They won’t next time when there’s dozens with that shirt. They’ll just make up a reason if they have to.
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Be funnier if the police in the UK weren’t arresting people for wearing the wrong T-shirt.
As much as the US is fucked and how much we hear about how it’s fucked, it feels a little bittersweet to see other developed countries’ governments fucking up just as bad. The fact that you can’t protest about Palestine is asinine.
The US and UK have been in an arms race to see who can tank their country the fastest for quite some time now.
Remember how putin arrested women, old grammars and gramps for saying anything about the “military exercise” in terms of war?
It’s kind of grating that it’s so bad in the United States that people start applauding the EU doing stupid shit too.
We should be united against this stupid shit, not laughing at each other over our particular forms of suffering.
This has nothing to do with the EU though
It’s really not the ‘where’, it’s the general thought ((less)(ness)) we should not be slightly relieve at other people doing stupid shit, we should -as people- make a stand against stupid shit.
I think we should unite against stupid shit being laid upon us by greedy people rather than laugh at each others’ misery.
As true as that statement is it is very unnerving to see a lot of countries see a rise in the alt-right movements gain footholds and numbers in elections in multiple countries … with we could all agree nazis are bad again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Britain has been using the Troubles for a long time to justify all manner of perverting freedoms and rights. They’re not far behind China in surveillance and suppression.
They’re not far behind China
They’re leagues ahead. We just don’t like to acknowledge it, because they’re White Westerners rather than Evil NonWhite Communists.
I’m a naturalized immigrant and loudly anti-regime online. Just today I had two people tell me to “go back to China and see how long you last criticizing the government there”(ironically they never seem to realize that they’re advocating for Chinese style authoritarianism under trump), and “Get out of this country you commie.”
Most non-POC simply don’t understand this reality of racism and tension in this country. It’s the definition of privilege. Not needing to think about how police forces or others will react to you because of the color of your skin.
This is just normal treatment of any kind of POC in a western nation in the modern day. Getting randomly screamed at, assaulted, or reported to the police entirely due to skin color and accent.
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I wonder how long it will take before someone shows up with a blank piece of paper?
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It definitely happened in Russia, possibly Belarus as well.
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I just bought one. We’ll see how my fellow Canadians deal with it. ;)
I support Plasticine Action.
I also support Plasticine Action.
Illustrating very clearly why freedom of speech and expression are so vitally important.
Now I want a plasticine action t-shirt. Surprisingly easy to find: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirts/plasticine-action
They clearly are on the side of Play-Doh Action.
“We oppose AI-generated animation.”
Their 1st call was right: these pricks won’t stop & need to stay locked away.
This guy tried to imitate a terrorist organizations name and label. He got treated accordingly.
