Peaceful Terrorists
Our pathetic excuse for a Labour government is performing well in terms of eroding human rights and freedoms. We should remember that any rights we have are not there because of the benevolence of politicians – they all had to be fought for.
Women wouldn’t have the vote if it wasn’t for the struggle of the suffragettes who used a range of tactics including bombing Westminster Abbey in their quest to win votes for women. Labour has performed well in terms of hypocrisy so it’s unsurprising that on the day they voted to brand Palestine Action as a terrorist group women MPs posed for a photograph in Westminster Hall bearing sashes with the colours of the Women’s Social and Political Union!
This single fact exemplifies the arrogant conceipt of the low life that inhabits the Westminster bubble. Obviously not all MPs are part of the ruling low life faction. Refreshingly Zarah Sultana said “MPs, including Yvette Cooper, celebrated the suffragette legacy of civil disobedience that won women the right to vote. Only to then vote to designate non-violent direct action group Palestine Action as terrorists …. Parliament in a nutshell”.
Inside the bubble the hoi polloi are excluded unless of course they’re serving our elected representatives at table, cleaning or opening doors for them. However, if you’re a lobbyist for an arms manufacturer or oil company you’ll qualify to taste fine wines with ministers overlooking the Thames. Remember you are paying for all this in the ‘finest club in London’ – subsidised by the tax payer.
In my 72 years I’ve seen many governments come and go but nothing like the despotic shit show we’re now having to endure.
In a few days time the world will witness the unedifying spectacle of Sir Kid Starver toadying to the racist orange man. If you are able to, get out on the streets and protest. We are many – they are few.
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Palestine Action Ban
If you demonstrate in London against the genocide in Gaza you’re likely to see a huge police sign that says “It is an offence to support a proscribed organisation”. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” Clearly this right no longer applies in the UK since the ‘Proscription’ of Palestine Action. This is blatant repression by the British state.
The most recent national demonstration on August 6th was one of the largest this year and it shows that the public are not intimidated by Starmer’s threats.
There is a genocide happening in plain site in Gaza and Kier Starmer talks about the occupation of Gaza as being “wrong” and yet the government continues to supply arms and surveillance intelligence to Israel. Action was needed 2 years ago and now the minimum Starmer can do to prevent the extermination of 2.1 million Palestinians in Gaza is to have a complete arms and military embargo on the apartheid state. All diplomatic ties shouls be ended and sanctions introduced immediately.
The UK government is complicit in the genocide and the arrest of 523 people outside parliament for carrying signs supporting Palestine Action is a sign of desperate measures to suppress free speech. The use of non violent direct action to prevent the production of arms manufactured for use against Palestinians is not terrorism.
Former Blair government minister Peter Hain has warned that the Palestine Action ban “will end in tears for the government”. Shami Chakrabarti told The Independent that the “proscription of Palestine Action is in danger of becoming a mistake of poll tax proportions.” That was a reference to Margaret Thatcher’s unpopular policy that was defeated by a mass movement – which also brought her down. Appropriately I’ve included in the poster police officers I photographed at the massive anti poll tax protest in Trafalgar Square in March 1990.
“When the rich make war, it’s the poor that die.” – Jean-Paul Sartre.
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