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> Does that mean you can stand outside your Congressman's house at 1am with a megaphone? These days, that seems to depend entirely upon which cause you're prot
by bluescrn 3y ago
> Does that mean you can stand outside your Congressman's house at 1am with a megaphone?
These days, that seems to depend entirely upon which cause you're protesting. If you're campaigning about the climate or against racism, you'll probably get away with it. But for many other causes, you'll probably be dragged away in handcuffs.
- rootusrootus 3y agoCops are by and large right-wing, not left. Historically, progressives have gotten the sharp end of the bayonet more often.
- bluescrn 3y agoPolice follow orders. For example, it's pretty obvious that in London they've been ordered by the powers that be to be very lenient to Just Stop Oil when they block roads over and over and over again. Meanwhile, also in the UK, a lone anti-abortion campaigner has been arrested on more than one occasion for silent prayer outside an abortion clinic. Under normal circumstances, it seems reasonable to limit protest in locations where patients visiting the clinic could be directly harassed, but at the same time, other protesters are permitted to repeatedly cause traffic chaos all over London, and are disrupting major events with no indication of any particularly harsh consequences.
- rootusrootus 3y agoI think UK police and US police are quite different.