“Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children’s lives,” said one Metropolitan Police officer.
So stop doing it then you fuckwits
“Just following orders” you say? You could choose not to do it. You could choose to not participate in injustice. What you are doing is bad and you should feel bad for doing it.
Feddit.org users brains cannot comprehend.
I don’t, indeed. Please explain it to me.
Not a good policy for police to choose what laws to enforce.
I take it you have some kind of experience of reporting a burglary and having them follow it up at all then?
That’s more inability than unwillingness.
The whole point of protesting is visibility. The whole point of burglary is invisibility.
If you’re ashamed of the job you are doing, find a new job.
This isn’t like working in fast food, where you can just find another job right away. You’re talking about abandoning a career the officer has spent years building.
Yeah cuffing pensioners is a real skill that must be honed with years of hard work & training
https://www.joiningthepolice.co.uk/training-progression/training
18-22 weeks of classroom based training, then three months supervision on the job. Then they will be getting promoted as they get more experienced.
It’s a lot to just walk away from.
They should be more like the Italian dock workers.
Then they should refuse to do it, and make the police force go through the trouble of firing them.
This. Right here. Don’t make it easy on the brass by quitting
Quit your shitty job
Do you have a mortgage by any chance? Or pay rent?
Do you always make excuses to make shitty decisions? Or just contrarian?
ACAB holy fuck.
If my boss told me at my job, I had to attack genocide protesters or I would be fired, I think I would rip out his jugular with my teeth and then quit
To be fair, cops have no other marketable skills, so rage quitting has more serious consequences than for normal people with transferable skills.
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
Palestine Action was banned after they breached into a military base and damaged RAF jets
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn81g4e0nlyo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr742e8n0rxo
A lot of their supporters are good people that simply aren’t aware of what the group did.
I think arresting their supporters is going too far. It’s a waste of resources.
Everyone knows what they did. That’s not the issue that people have. The issue is proscribing them as a terrorist group when they quite clearly aren’t a terrorist group in a monumental trivialisation of what terrorism actually is and an obvious attempt to silence people.
I had no idea what they did, wow, I like them even more now
They painted a few planes, they’re hardly the IRA.
It begs the question, in whom have they inspired terror?
“Budgie the Little Helicopter” and “Jimbo of the Jet Set” are both terrified.
Jimbo has, in fact, suggested he might like the freshen up and Budgie’s just happy to be less Epstein adjacent.
Thomas the Tank Engine had bricked himself into a tunnel.
Paint can do severe damage to engines
Damaging an aircraft engine is a far cry from a campaign of kneecapping, bombing and murder.
Damaging government property is terrorism now?
I think plenty of their supporters knew what they did and frankly they absolutely deserve to be punished for criminal damage. Proscribing them as a terror organisation, however, is waaaay disproportionate and in my personal opinion an abuse of the law. I think their supporters feel the same and are making a stand against this.
Reckon it was because of the UK supplying over 500 RAF spy flights over gaza?
Nope, because the planes they damaged weren’t spy planes.
Not only do the vaste majority know what they did. They know Starmer as a lawyer successfully defended very similar actions under the Blair administration. As not criminal due to intent to save lives.
The level of hypocrisy within the current government is beyond belief. Starmer is clearly the puppet of someone. What or who is the only thing up for debate.
`damaged´
Throwing paint into a jet engine really is damage. You gave to take the engine apart and meticulously clean out the paint before you can run it again, because otherwise the engine could do itself serious harm next time it’s started. That’s a very expensive thing to do.
That actually makes it a very effective act of protest, which is why the government has come down so hard on them
Were the actual people who performed the action caught?
That’s something that would cost thousands to fix if done to a car, as the paint needs to be sanded back and repainted. On an aircraft, it could easily be a six figure job, in addition to a multimillion dollar aircraft being unable to be flown.
Calling it terrorism is silly, but it’s absolutely damage.
Quit then
quit your jobs then???
Ok so quit. Take the opportunity Palestinians are deprived of and remove yourselves from the situation, or shut the fuck up. Shoot and cry bullshit.
