the UK is officially a shithole country now
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Fascism has been achieved
Now?
They're putting the finishing touches on, been degrading for decades, ever since the focus of total control and surveillence shifted to them as a testbed.
UK gov: goes out of its way to make the place a shithole
also UK gov: "Why don't people consider it worthwhile to reproduce anymore?"
Adding an offence later in the case and withholding information to a jury has to be grounds a mistrial.
Zionism overrules all other laws, it would seem.
If spray painting a plane is the exact same as blowing it up then might as well blow it up.
So terrorism just doesn't mean anything anymore.
Ironically, it means the same it has always meant: resistance to colonization/imperialism/opression, it's just that in the past it was disguised with the veil of "civilization", and now the mask is off and you can see the naked brutal truth of how the term has always been weaponized
It's literally a disinhibitive ruling. Someone somewhere will inevitably think "well if I'm going to be called a terrorist anyway for some property damage, why not shoot at the cop that's coming to stop me? In for a penny in for a pound."
It never has
Terror is in interesting word, it used to mean a government that oppressed their citizens, then it changed to mean general attacks on civillians by a non government entity.
And now, it means protesting specific government policies.
The first meanings are understandable, they involve harming civillians.
The new definition is just idiotic.
Well, your statement is pertinent, and therefore it terrorises me, so I hope you do not live in the UK.
The unprecedented ruling came despite jurors convicting them of criminal charges not connected to terrorism during the prosecution.
On Friday, the presiding judge, Justice Jeremy Johnson, added a “terrorism connection” to their offences.
Rule Of Law my ass!
Rule of Israel
Speaking ill of israel is a greater act of terrorism than crashing planes into buildings.
Free the Palestine Action prisoners!
Remove the shameful judge!
Looks like they are one step behind the US and catching up fast.
In terms of personal rights suppression, the UK is already miles ahead.
"Unprecedented"?
The English courts have been sentencing civilians as terrorists for centuries.
The difference is that none of the charges are commonly associated with terrorism. The judge had to invent a "terrorism connection" in addition to the normal charges.
Fucking Mosley must be laughing right now from hell.

I know that image from The Wall movie, but I guess it's also its own piece given the signature. That watercolor sky is absolutely beautiful.
disarming israel is terrorism? yayyy were all terrorists because that term means nothing now
Such a standard to be met:
He added that those convicted acted "for the purpose of advancing a political and/or ideological cause".
Guess the legal system has no standards.
Shameful
How does wanting to disarm a foreign government terrorism?? By that logic the entirety of the UK government is a bunch of terrorists for wanting to disarm uh Russia and Iran I assume?
UK has stopped making sense a long time ago
The only terrorist I see is the judge. They should be extradited to Hamas for trial.
The "last minute evidence" was probably pics of the judge with an underage girl sourced from MI5/CIA/Mossad assets.