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The Quakers are fairly heavy politically invested, and most of them aren't even theists any more. There's no right of sanctuary in the UK, and if a group is she
by b800h 2y ago
The Quakers are fairly heavy politically invested, and most of them aren't even theists any more. There's no right of sanctuary in the UK, and if a group is sheltering criminals or providing them with premeses to plan criminal actions, it's damned right they should have their door busted in.
- teraflop 2y agoIf you give police the right to invade and arrest any group that is "sheltering criminals", and you define "crime" broadly enough to include "suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance" i.e. encouraging protest, then you have given up on living in a free society.
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- blackguardx 2y agoWhy does it matter if they are theists or not? Would you afford more leniency to a catholic church?
- b800h 2y agoI'm suggesting that the organisation is not the one that existed 100 years ago, even by a very large stretch of the imagination. The title is emotive largely because of the reputation of the organisation. If the headline was "police raid house to arrest criminal activists", it wouldn't have made a blip.
- megous 2y agoIt's just indicative of a wider trend in some western countries to punish and threaten people protesting their complicity in genocide. Same thing or perhaps worse is happening in Germany, US, etc. One can just as well ask why would a democratic country arrest and threaten young people for protesting actions of a foreign country, when such actions include things like mass killings of children, or targeted attacks on healthcare and rescue workers, where said country sometimes just murders 15 of them while on a rescue mission (destroying 5 ambulances and a fire engine, basically killing all of the teams), like recently. It's a worthy question that such an article can elicit regardless of who's being arrested for activism.
- mcphage 2y ago> If the headline was "police raid house to arrest criminal activists", it wouldn't have made a blip. If you’re willing to lie, the headline could be whatever you want.
- amadeuspagel 2y agoNo organization is the one that existed 100 years ago, not even the catholic church, which famously had the second vatican council 60 years ago.
- michaelmrose 2y agoYes they absolutely would.
- unsnap_biceps 2y agoYes. Hardened criminals being sheltered. > A Met spokesman said six women had been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance, amid fears of a sit-down protest in the capital. None have been charged.
- teaearlgraycold 2y agoDeport these radicals /s
- more_corn 2y agoI’ll take em. They sound lovely.