'Extreme' protest groups face ban under proposal

[Nearly Sane]

What about mildly annoying ones?


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2qv7425gvwo

[splashscuba]

Can't wait to see how they are going to frame this one.

[jeremyp]

If they are using criminal tactics, why can't they just be arrested for breaking the law? I don't see any need for banning these organisations.

[Nearly Sane]

If they are using criminal tactics, why can't they just be arrested for breaking the law? I don't see any need for banning these organisations.

  They want to be seen as doing something

[The Accountant, OBE, KC]

What about mildly annoying ones?


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2qv7425gvwo

“Extremism of any kind has no place in our society and we will not tolerate tactics that set out to intimidate, threaten or cause disruption to the law-abiding majority." - the Home Office spokesman forgot to add "except we will tolerate extremism if we or our allies are engaging in extremism (e.g. Saudi Arabia and Israel)

I doubt it matters anymore if the government tries to pass a law banning protests they don't like. Just Stop Oil protestors seem to be willing to get arrested.

Given the revelations that British government moral values include lying to Parliament to cover up massacres of the colonised natives, there will be Palestine Action protestors who don't mind being arrested either. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/30/maumau-massacre-secret-files

The Palestinian Action protests against Israel's indiscriminate bombing of Palestinian civilian areas are reminiscent of the student Anti-Vietnam War protests in the 1960s against US indiscriminate bombing of Vietnamese and the anti-Apartheid divestment protests against South Africa in the 1980s. There were critics then as well who branded protestors as 'pro' Communist or 'anti-American'

In 1985, Columbia students occupied campus to push for divestment from South Africa. Five months later, the university cut ties to the apartheid regime after years of dragging its feet.....The international court of justice’s recent ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians makes divestment a legal, not just ethical, obligation.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/03/columbia-pro-palestinian-protest-south-africa-divestment

Most of the students and faculty I’ve spoken with found Hamas’s attack on October 7 odious. They also find Israel’s current government morally bankrupt, in that its response to Hamas’s attack has been disproportionate.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/05/police-crackdowns-war-protesters