The right to protest has come under sustained attack across the west, according to a report highlighting the growing criminalisation of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
The study by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) pays particular attention to the UK, the US, France and Germany, where it says governments have “weaponised” counter-terrorism legislation as well as the fight against antisemitism to suppress dissent and support for Palestinian rights in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
as always with the Empire, it is all projection. for every hundreth post or news you read about china being authoritah, the west did it 100 times worse and painted it in freedom colors
It’s so frustrating that people just seem to not understand that it’s a spectrum.
What is happening now is not like anything that has happened during my lifetime, in the West.
It’s just ignorant to pretend that it has always been this bad.
it is not something new, after 9/11 it has gone disgustingly in the Western Empire, I have been seeing it unfold consciously for the last decade at least and I don’t live there
Yes, I have been watching it unfold too. Meaning it has been steadily getting worse and worse. It is not the same as it was. It has never been like this for at least the past 40 years.
Yes it has lmao. Trump and his imitators are just to stupid to understand that protest is largely illegal already unless it is rendered sterile through the “proper channels”.
What do you think Kent State was? What do you think happened to Anti War protestors during the Iraq invasion? Were cops just singing songs and drinking Pepsi during the Ferguson protest or did they murder all the organizers? What did the DHS do to the Occupy Wall Street organizers?
This is how it’s been, it’s just that more people are restless now and they’re deciding to do away with subtlety.
It’s nice to have confirmation that the world is heading in the “RIGHT” direction. The capitalist system is doing what it can to maintain profits and authoritarianism is the only way forward for it. As is said, we are living in “interesting” times. What an absolute cluster fuck.
