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Not a UK resident but how will this square with the law about protesting for Palestine?
There's no law about protesting for Palestine; you're thinking of the law proscribing the activist organization Palestine Action as a terrorist organization.
But that law has been used to harass people who are anti genocide
Question was:
The law being misused by the police is not relevant to that question. There is no such law, and what does not exist cannot interact with the Scottish Parliament or anything else.
De facto there is a law.
But sure de jure the law is against a group, not a cause.
Exactly. protesting for Palestine is now viewed with suspicion by police given the proscription of Palestine Action. That was precisely the reason Kid Starver did it. To intimidate the movement into silence.
Exactly...
People need to start being better reading between the lines.
What they say the law and policy is usually coded. Regimes gotten wiser and creative with their oppressive tactics.
They want the normies to feel relax as they abuse us.
"Is now"? Because I have only heard of arrests of people displaying the slogan "I support Palestine Action" in the last couple of weeks.
Well the question asked about the law...
De facto, the most serious misapplications of the ban on Palestine Action were very shortly afterwards (when the police officer was quoted as saying "Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups"). That's unlikely to happen again. Further, those misapplications were in the context of protests, where there is a sense of urgency to the actions of the police. The actions of the Scottish parliament are not in a protest context and so there's less sense of urgency and so less room for an individual officer to wrongly connect a ban on Palestine Action to the kinds of statements supported by Palestine Action and hence to conjure up a ban on those statements.
Or in short, because the law is against the group, not the cause, it won't affect the Scottish Parliament, even though this didn't prevent any action being taken against those in support of the cause before.
I provided my response to the comment under it.
I didn't apply this law would be used against the Scottish regime whores.
These laws are used to oppress the peasants that's political science 101.
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