Are you sure it's the T Shirt and not those socks they're arresting him for...?
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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Oh sorry didn't see you there officer, I was just saying its time for my #sick dance 🕺 moves, is dancing a crime, officer? 😏
combining words of the pleistocene and Palestine.
I've got a friend trying to move from the United States to England to escape our current shit show, and I've been telling him that England tends to do what America does, just with a posh accent to give it an air of legitimacy.
Didn't /u/flyingsquid move to England? He hasn't posted in 6 months :o
Yeah, he moved into the badlands near Manchester. Ever seen the movie "The hills have eyes"? Its like that up there.
If you think they do it with a posh accent you've not been to England lol
in US english posh is a synonym for british
/s (½)
I'm mainly thinking of Tony Blair making the same case for invading Iraq that George W. Bush was, just with the accent.
I'm mainly thinking of marshmallows.
Nowhere is truly safe at this point. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
I'm currently working out moving to Jamaica. Got a friend there to help, but he says it ain't all sunshine and cheap pot like the movies.
I'm not LGBT but I usually use that as a guideline of "is this a good place to be?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Jamaica
And its not looking great.
Pick somewhere else.
At a certain time (around 2000) I'd count the number of women/men outside (like 20 to 40 year olds), very telling about the insecurity in a city.
Super simple and smart way to sort places that care about human rights. Thanks for sharing.
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You have the right to free speech...as long as... you're not dumb enough to actually try it.
It’s already working. Due to the terrorism claims, each of these arrests requires a special review, and the system is being overwhelmed. Get a few more hundred or thousands of people to get an arrest for this, and the whole government scheme will have to be abandoned, because there will be no practical way for system to follow the required procedures for each case.
Fascists get pretty clever at solving that problem. They create these camps where they can just concentrate them in one place.
See how that worked out for USA, when push came to shove - the law was abandoned.
Yes, and that will be an important lesson to people. Then we can move to the next step to topple the capitalists.
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In what other profession are you allowed to just stand there in public with a constant hand on someone?
Who is Donald Trump on Jeffrey Epstein’s island, Alex.
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To be fair, the (good) British cops are by far not as likely to assault an innocent person as many others. But they do love to stop you and have a chat if even the tiniest thing stands out. I once walked around London, 15 years old, with toy handcuffs on one wrist. Cop came up to me and wanted to know the whole story, like one of those super-chatty people. Where are you from, how old, name, where are the cuffs from, why am I wearing them right now at this moment, ...
He seemed happy with the answers, and we both moved on.
Well, it's still a bother, especially when you are not free to walk away at any moment.
Yeah before anybody spoke I was fairly clued in that this was not America by the fact that the cops were just standing there acting chill instead of holding him on the ground and screaming at him to stop resisting arrest.
If the toy looked like the real thing, You are 15, an underage with handcuffs, for all he know someone was trying to keep you captive and you manage to get out or you plan to cause damage and handdcuff someone. Good for him to make sure no one actually was hurting you..
This guy got de-arrested
Hopefully everyone will buy these t-shirts just to take the piss
Pickering has made copies of the T-shirt, which he is selling through his own website to raise money for the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians. It has sold in 28 countries already.
About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’
“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’ And then I walked free, while all the real heroes are the people that are actually getting arrested.”
The officer seems to understand his mistake at least
The poor copper lost all that time arresting a guy with Plasticine Action on his t-shirt only to have to de-arrest him when he could've been arresting an old lady with the words "Palestine Action" written down on a piece of paper for her to be prosecuted and maybe even get a jail sentence.
That mistake was making it hard for him to make his quota of arrests for that week, the poor bloke.
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Pardon my ignorance, but is wearing a shirt with the word Palestine on it and arrestable offense in England?
Palestine Action yes. An activism organization called Palestine Action was classified as a terrorist organization a few weeks ago by the UK government.
Y'all seem to have a lot going on across the pond, what with "who's a terrorist," or "is this dystopian?"
Have y'all considered electing a terrorist leader so that you instantly know the answers to those questions?
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Pretty sure that's Scotland, not England (Glasgow to be specific). But yeah, the British government decided carrying a Palestine Action sign was basically terrorism.
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