Arwu@programming.dev to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months agoNo 10 condemns ‘thuggish’ far-right activists after Portsmouth unrestwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down12
arrow-up122arrow-down1external-linkNo 10 condemns ‘thuggish’ far-right activists after Portsmouth unrestwww.theguardian.comArwu@programming.dev to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square3linkfedilink
minus-squaremanualoverride@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·2 months ago‘Thuggish Activists’ is a funny thing to call Terrorists. Disrupting the operation of a port in the UK is a terroristic act, doing so in an organised way with violence is absolutely terrorism. I guess the term ‘terrorist’ is reserved for grannies who think genocide is bad.
minus-squareals@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·2 months agoThey made a specific law for disrupting “key national infrastructure”, but only seem to use it on people blockading arms factories and protesting in parliament square.
‘Thuggish Activists’ is a funny thing to call Terrorists.
Disrupting the operation of a port in the UK is a terroristic act, doing so in an organised way with violence is absolutely terrorism.
I guess the term ‘terrorist’ is reserved for grannies who think genocide is bad.
They made a specific law for disrupting “key national infrastructure”, but only seem to use it on people blockading arms factories and protesting in parliament square.