They also called paint £200k in damage. And broken windows £500k. Just utterly insane figures to inflate the seriousness of what’s just basic vandalism of a building.
We really live in a country where terrorism means anything that the government wants, Huh.
If by “we” you mean people in the UK, yes.
And USA
Kill thousands of Palestinian children, including by picking infants up by the ankle and swinging them hard as you can into brick walls, and impaling pregnant women through the stomach and leaving them to die in the dirt?
You’re a “settler.”
Throw paint at something to protest that?
You’re a “terrorist.”
The British government paved the way for those settlers, don’t forget. They assumed control of the land, kicked out the natives and beckoned for all the Israelites to enter, who, obviously, started murdering anyone still in Palestine. This chapter of their cruelty started in 1948 and Britain’s government, who has always been a piece of shit, made it so.
That’s crazy. Fortunately the world is full of countries like China, the US, Germany, Russia… you know, big places where everything has run on compassion for others and doing the right thing for the last hundred plus years.
Of course it’s a terrorist, it’s literally creating hundreds of explosions per second!
If throwing a can of paint is the same as throwing a bomb then why not throw bombs? Seems like a dumb thing for a government to promote…
Thats actually what they want. They are engineering a reason.
Both outcomes benefit them. Either it scares and subdues everyone or does the exact opposite which gives them even more ‘justification’ for crackdowns.
This is their way of subduing the populace even more. If politicians and corporations were actually scared to fuck people over, we’d live in a much better world.
Ah yes, nothing screams terrorism like… paint.
It’s vandalism. It’s property damage. It’s rude as fuck. But it’s not terrorism. Trying Americans for protests calling it terrorism is a form of terrorism.
Trying Americans for protests calling it terrorism is a form of terrorism.
There are no Americans involved in this story…
Wow, Lemmywinks. What crawled up your ass?
I don’t really think you’re over reacting to anything, just rare to get a chance to say that.
I appreciate the joke 😂 (though I’m not too surprised many others didn’t get it, relying as it does on a ~25 year old South Park reference)
I’m imagining they’re all just down voting because they’re sad I beat them to it.
It is. I’d consider it a form of stochastic terrorism. Stochastic terrorism is the public demonization of a person or group through mass media that incites a violent act which is statistically predictable but whose specific perpetrator and timing cannot be predicted.
So the government labeling anti-fascists as terrorists, or people that support an end to the Palestinian genocide as terrorists could fall under the definition of stochastic terrorism. We have the public demonization of anti-facists via policy and yellow journalism, which leads to those people speaking out against fascism to be targeted by the police/government for exercising their right to free speech and assembly. The anti genocide protesters spreading red paint and breaking windows are vandals for sure, but I wouldn’t go so far as to label them as terrorists. Labeling them as terrorists creates an opening for the government to deny them freedom via criminal charges worse than any crime they are actually guilty of.
Labour has paved the way for Reform to go full fascist.
Yeah, I always have to remind myself that these repressive stories from the UK are being done under the government elected in to stop the conservatives. Where do the more conservative parties have to go when this is the baseline of the center left?
I don’t think anyone’s been terrorised by this creative painting social exhibition. Hell, I’m sure some employees of the bank enjoyed it as well.
