Leraje

As a UK citizen who has massive issues with the OSA, this story makes me empathise with how the ordinary citizens of Minas Tirith must’ve felt as they hid as best they could but could hear the marauding Orc army murdering their way through the city - and then hearing the clear horns trumpeting from over a hill in the middle distance…only to see not the armed might of Rohan come over the brow but a loose collection of people so bad even Sauron was too ashamed to have serve with him.

On behalf of the saner members of the UK, sorry about Murray. Sadly, we’re overrun with pedants of this nature which is largely why we’ve become such a backward set of mouth breathers since 2016-ish.

This will be fine. After all, a government that understands technology so well it implemented the genius tech regulations in the OSA coupled with a Police force with officers so intelligent they never get the law wrong or have a growing reputation for violence against women can easily be trusted to not take the UK down a dystopian path where the non-white and/or poor and/or disabled will be targetted simply by living in an area where a crime once happened.

“We need an excuse to carry on increasing the surveillance of our citizens.”
“Just say sex offenders and terrorism. If anyone protests we can then call them a sex-offending terrorist, thus winning the argument instantly.”
“Hmmm…we have used those excuses quite a lot over the last few years. Don’t we risk-”
“The phrases becoming essentially meaningless? Well, yes, but it doesn’t matter. By the time the populace finally realise that, we’ll have total control.”

The two examples the US uses - ‘chilling online free speech after the Southport attacks’ (translation: not giving credence to the lies Farage and the extreme right invented about the immigration status of the perpetrator in order to avoid people being burned to death in hotels) and ‘prohibitions around silent prayer outside abortion clinics’ (translation: stopping christofascists from trying to intimidate service users and providers) speak volumes about what fascist America sees as the only important free speech.

Thanks Labour - you’ve now made me agree with those fucks about something.

The problem, I’m afraid, is not the idea but Jeremy Corbyn. A quick look at Yougov polling currently has him less popular than Keir Starmer at 21%. It’s a shame we live in such a personality led culture but we do - en masse, people just don’t like him and won’t vote for him.

Can confirm the ubo custom filter method works perfectly.

It’s difficult to convey to non Brits just how strong and deep the urge to place all citizens under total surveillance runs in the political classes. Its beyond party politics - all parties want it and have for decades. We have (I think) the largest CCTV system in Europe, possibly the world and the police use facial recognition as a matter of course and encourage private businesses to use facial recognition too.

Not to pour cold water onto any sort of activism but this has zero chance. We all know what the OSA is really for and the kids/terrorism thing is a front for spying on us but the gen population are totally bought into the kids/terrorism thing and there’s not a single MP with any sort of political ambition who’ll take the chance on looking like they hate kids and support terrorists.

You might personally think defence trumps all other things - I don’t. Its clearly not unimportant (and I never suggested it was) but defence is, we’re told, something we use to protect our way of life and our way of life includes not being called a terrorist for doing something which very obviously is not an act of terrorism.

All forms of protest are under a sustained attack in the UK right now and this is just another extension of that. Sabotaging reality to exert control over a populace is obviously a very much worse thing.

It is now - but yeah my heart bleeds for those poor RAF jets, they’re definitely what’s important here, not making the word ‘terrorist’ a meaningless empty word that can be used to justify anything at all.

They did wrong by breaking into an RAF base though

Hardly a terrorist action though is it? Breaking in to throw around some red paint.