Post AVONBm2e7sjxmNsjYG by webmink@meshed.cloud
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(DIR) Post #AVNZUnepLawiaJcTCa by webmink@meshed.cloud
2023-05-06T13:11:48Z
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Met Police doing a wonderful job with the UK's new authoritarian thought-crime laws to make sure everyone hears about a protest that would probably have gone unseen if ignored.https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/head-of-uks-leading-anti-monarchy-group-arrested-at-coronation-protest
(DIR) Post #AVNbWw43GHd995Z2Cu by gruff@stroud.social
2023-05-06T13:29:26.401992Z
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@webmink The Met Police doing the bidding of a weak and insecure monarch.......
(DIR) Post #AVNbWwafJ1iamEp52e by webmink@meshed.cloud
2023-05-06T13:33:17Z
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@gruff I sincerely doubt he was consulted.
(DIR) Post #AVNcEO11DRvqHoreV6 by seth@s3th.me
2023-05-06T13:43:51Z
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@webmink Good point. The protests would probably not made a mark if the Met Police and the Monarchy made such a big deal over it.
(DIR) Post #AVNcYYy6Cdv2327U8G by gruff@stroud.social
2023-05-06T13:42:31.959735Z
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@webmink Really?
(DIR) Post #AVNcYZTIKes9bmiOky by webmink@meshed.cloud
2023-05-06T13:44:00Z
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@gruff Yep. Fascism does not start as a conspiracy.
(DIR) Post #AVNplvS1DuK4weogZk by mkb@mastodon.social
2023-05-06T16:14:10Z
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@webmink @cstross Ah, The Streisand Effect. Gotta love it.
(DIR) Post #AVOFOKc2cR1iqBulHs by jimgoodall@mstdn.ca
2023-05-06T21:01:29Z
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@webmink "Among items seized during the arrest were a number of rape alarms.""intelligence indicated groups and individuals were planning to use and throw rape alarms in order to disrupt the coronation procession.""There was concern that this would scare horses involved in the procession and, as a result, cause significant risk to the safety of the public and the riders, the Met police said."I, for one, am glad that the police did the job they did, to keep the crowd safe.Unseen? Really?
(DIR) Post #AVONBm2e7sjxmNsjYG by webmink@meshed.cloud
2023-05-06T22:28:48Z
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@jimgoodallApparently those were women's safety volunteers they arrested long before the event and Westminster Council is very concerned they were targeted.Yes, that minority would have been ignored by the vast majority and gone unreported. The Met's actions were as necessary to the public interest as the photo ID demanded at Thursday's polling stations. Both caused by populist authoritarian laws pushed through Parliament by the same government.
(DIR) Post #AVOOqIkM36KKkXDO76 by tamahori@mastodon.social
2023-05-06T22:47:23Z
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@webmink I'm sure there will be no negative effects from the police making it clear that if you do everything you can to work with their rules they will still arrest you.I can't see any possible issues from showing people that you will be punished for trying to follow the rules.
(DIR) Post #AVOfenhgpABIVU4Q2y by Lassielmr@mastodon.scot
2023-05-07T01:55:45Z
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@webmink thankfully not U.K., but England and Wales.
(DIR) Post #AVPCopfneZUPzxZrvc by webmink@meshed.cloud
2023-05-07T08:07:10Z
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@Lassielmr Oh interesting, I hadn't twigged that Scotland was outside the regulations. So the Met are also helping the independence movement.