Those charged with terrorism for supporting Palestine Action will have no jury in trials limited to 36 minutes each, with prison sentences up to six months. These are the plans for Starmer Courts for mass trials of anti-Genocide protestors.
Those charged with terrorism for supporting Palestine Action will have no jury in trials limited to 36 minutes each, with prison sentences up to six months. These are the plans for Starmer Courts for mass trials of anti-Genocide protestors.
Exactly.
The laws making carrying a knive a crime have been on the books for at least a decade and as for firearms the UK has long been like most of Europe in that it’s pretty hard to get a license for anything but a single hunting weapon.
Nonsense. I can walk down the street right now with a big fucking butcher knife, as long as I can show that I’m on my way to work and the knife’s a tool of my trade. Of course, that works better if I’m not waving it around at passers-by and it’s wrapped up with other knives and chef’s gadgets. The same goes for other sharp and dangerous tools and caustic and poisonous chemicals used for construction or agriculture. But if I get caught with a jacket pocket full of heroin bindles, and that same butcher knife is found hidden down the leg of my tracksuit, I’ve got some explaining to do. Context matters. The police are given discretion, and they actually do exercise it. It’s not the US. Zero-tolerance enforcement is a rare thing here. So are police killings of civilians.
When you read these articles, you imagine a police state. But the reality is that I’m harassed by cops, by criminals and by asshole members of the general public far less here than I was in the US. And by “much less,” I mean never. That was not the case in the US.