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I suppose the most recent example are the people from Palestine Action being arrested en masse at protests.

>>b800h+(OP)
They're not really being arrested for criticising a law though.

They're arrested for supporting a group that's been banned for causing around £30 million's worth of damage to our national defences at a time of hightened national security.

There's the implication that Palastinian Action are going to continue attacking us.

If they just stuck to protesting they would have been fine.

>>Lio+W7
And at the same time, while people burning down hotels have been arrested, other people who have been egging them on and causing "stochastic terrorism" have been left alone.

What gets classed as "support for" and "terrorism" is not evenly enforced.

>>pjc50+131
I think this is an inaccurate description of what has been happening: people have criticised the government heavily for being extremely harsh on people "just making tweets". A woman was sentenced to nearly three years in jail for posting a message online that said "set fire to the hotels for all I care" (paraphrased).

These riots are spontaneous and "organised" via people getting riled up online. There isn't a central organisation that people see as leading these anti-migrant riots/attacks. They seem to be an emergent property of the protests. If there is a named group organising criminal action and it includes things that threaten/damage national security then that group should be banned.

Palestine Action was conducting organised criminal raids with the specific intent to cause damage to anything it felt was Israeli, Israel related, or somehow benefited Israel. A lot of the time the link was tenuous at best. They also attacked national security assets. Honestly this group's actions has done more harm than good for the Palestinian cause.

>>Lio+W7
„Arrested for supporting a group“ you hear yourself right?

>>j-krie+e42
That can be a good thing depending on the group. I think people who support the NSDAP should be arrested. We know what happens if you don't arrest people who support the NSDAP because it happened once.