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  1. @epistatacadam @ChrisMayLA6

    There's a huge problem to my mind; the author of the page to which you link highlights it, and it is that passing this sort of stuff as terrorism means we need a new name for actual paramilitary groups like ISIS or (at a push) the Provisional IRA.

    I write this as someone who is against protest that blocks other people's free movement or damages property. I will do my protesting in my purchasing choices, with my vote, holding a placard, and if I can think of it, chanting (or otherwise publishing) something witty. And in spite of this I am aghast to have read about that royal marine who petitioned parliament being detained using terror laws, and of Palestine Action being declared a terrorist group. I think we have come to measure the quality of policing by how severe the Crown has been, and I think those who run the police would do well to consider Goodhart's Law.

    I have no objection to Palestine Action being called ideologically driven criminal actors, but to call them terrorists, on the basis of their actions to date, seems beyond the pale.

    Despite disapproving of their methods, I am somewhat tempted to donate to their legal fees!

    #Palestine #UK #policing #law #lawfare #antiTerrorism #Israel #whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo

  2. Hell yes: Washington state court dismisses latest lawsuit by Satanic Temple targeting former members

    queersatanic.com/moreover-we-a

    Judge determines TST “has no rights to or interest” to Facebook memes page the national for-profit Satanic corporation has been suing to get since 2020

    #TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #Satanism #WashingtonState #Seattle #KingCounty #QueerSatanic #Lawsuits #SLAPP #Lawfare

  3. This is why we defend cartoonists when they’re criminalized for doing their work. You can join us as a Cartoonist Defender - just sign up here: eepurl.com/itCRA6 (it’ll only take a minute), and we’ll let you know the ways you can help. #EditorialCartoon #EditorialCartoonist #CartoonistDefender #CartoonistsRights #Cartoonist #Defender #Lawfare