Post AkugIO7Z8eDBhSdnmq by guyholmes@mas.to
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 (DIR) Post #AkuQtSVuAgVmlsgEs4 by rms@mastodon.xyz
       2024-08-13T01:44:34Z
       
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       https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/06/uk-police-arrest-two-pro-palestine-activists-under-organised-lawsThe practice of labeling protests as "organized crime" has spread from the US to  Germany and now the UK.  The UK protest involved violence against property, and that has always been a crime.  Nonetheless it is wrong to equate a protest, whose participants sought no gain, with organized crime, whose purpose is gain.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkugIO7Z8eDBhSdnmq by guyholmes@mas.to
       2024-08-13T04:37:08Z
       
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       @rms - This seems a very important distinction.I had not come across it before now but it makes sense to me.