The right to protest has come under sustained attack across the west, according to a report highlighting the growing criminalisation of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
The study by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) pays particular attention to the UK, the US, France and Germany, where it says governments have “weaponised” counter-terrorism legislation as well as the fight against antisemitism to suppress dissent and support for Palestinian rights in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
it is not something new, after 9/11 it has gone disgustingly in the Western Empire, I have been seeing it unfold consciously for the last decade at least and I don’t live there
Yes, I have been watching it unfold too. Meaning it has been steadily getting worse and worse. It is not the same as it was. It has never been like this for at least the past 40 years.
Yes it has lmao. Trump and his imitators are just too stupid to understand that protest is largely illegal already unless it is rendered sterile through the “proper channels”.
What do you think Kent State was? What do you think happened to Anti War protestors during the Iraq invasion? Were cops just singing songs and drinking Pepsi during the Ferguson protest or did they murder all the organizers? What did the DHS do to the Occupy Wall Street organizers?
This is how it’s been, it’s just that more people are restless now and they’re deciding to do away with subtlety.
Oh yea I remember when they rounded up hippies and put them in concentration camps.
Not since the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2 has things been even close to that.
I’m curious to understand how something like fascism can “unfold” yet not get worse?