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Republican protesters arrested at King Charles proclamations
- lern_too_spel 4y agoIn 20 years, we'll hear about how he stoically wore the crown that he never asked to wear, and this stupid institution will carry on without change.
- nigerian1981 4y agoSo much for the sanctimonious clap trap about the sanctity of freedom of speech after Salman Rushdie’s stabbing.
- jleyank 4y agoNote that this is the UK's republicans - those opposing the monarchy. Was there commentary in the UK after the stabbing? One can view these comments at this time as incitement-to-riot, or you could view arresting them as protecting-them-from-the-mob. Check whether they are release in a few days or even a few hours.
- allears 4y agoBottom line, this was not genuine disruption, simply the expressing of unpopular opinions by single individuals out loud. In the main case discussed, nobody even heard the opinion except the few people nearby in the crowd, and apparently some policemen. In other words, suppression of dissenting speech by the state. Something that seems more like a dictatorship than a modern democracy.
- dane-pgp 4y ago> more like a dictatorship than a modern democracy. Always has been.
- kcartlidge 4y agoShould never have happened, and isn't being rolled back fully, but for the main reported the guy has at least now been "de-arrested" (which is a thing here in the UK). Personally I don't think this was official policy, just over-zealous individual police-persons.
- jjgreen 4y agoSupreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
- version_five 4y agoBloody peasant!
- krapp 4y agoCome see the violence inherent to the system!
- znpy 4y ago“To find who really holds power, look at who you’re not allowed to criticise”.
- version_five 4y agoIs there a source for that? I have mixed feelings about it, one one hand I'm sure we can all think of groups this applies to, though it's not clear to me they really hold power, it's more about insecurity. Whereas those who really do hold power can and do get criticized all the time, and it seems like it's how they deal with it that defines their hold on power. In the case of the monarchy, there is probably an element of insecurity as well as a general acknowledgment that they'll be criticized constantly and can't let it bother them.
- krapp 4y agoThe quote is often misattributed to Voltaire but it's actually from a radio broadcast by American Neo-Nazi radio host Kevin Alfred Strom, and usually meant to be applied in reference to "the Jews" in the context of Holocaust denial (implying that popular resistance to Holocaust denial, hate speech laws, deplatforming right-wing and neo-nazi posters, etc. is evidence that a Jewish cabal secretly controls society something something Hitler did nothing wrong.)
- version_five 4y agoThanks, that's interesting in the context of my original comment because I don't believe Jewish people as a group hold any particular power, not do I think they're insecure, nor beyond criticism - my point being that they are actually a terrible example of this witticism. It doesn't surprise me that Neo-nazis would paint such a charicature.
- znpy 4y agoAh, didn’t know that! F@@k!
- nine_k 4y agoIf not the source, here's the practice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9