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   Matt Willemsen (mattotcha@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 17:36:46 JST Matt Willemsen

   Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?
   When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrests
   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/police-raid-london-quaker-m

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     Thomas (tg9541@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 18:06:42 JST Thomas

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     @mattotcha The link is broken - this one works:
     https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/police-raid-london-quaker-meeting-house-very-worrying

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     • Thomas

     @tg9541 @mattotcha

     #UKpol #UKpolitics
     #Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
     #CivilRights #Legal

     👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

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     I've been saying ever since the announcement of the #Brexit Referendum, that the land where 20th century human rights originated, that conceived the #MagnaCarta and the #BillOfRights, belongs into the #EuropeanUnion. Geographically and economically, it really has no sound choice.

     #Türkiye, on...

     https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/police-raid-london-quaker-meeting-house-very-worrying

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 21:35:07 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Thomas

     @tg9541 @mattotcha

     #UKpol #UKpolitics
     #Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
     #CivilRights #Legal

     👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

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     ...the other hand, having being only partially settled by #colonists from the inventors of #democracy, #Athens, is a different story entirely, politically and geographically.
     President #Erdogan has been leading the country towards an #authoritarian model of society, ever further away from the #EU's principles.

     With the...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 21:37:05 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Thomas

     @tg9541 @mattotcha

     #UKpol #UKpolitics
     #Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
     #CivilRights #Legal

     👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

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     ... advent of #PredictivePolicing and the continuing crackdown on the right to #PeacefulProtest in the #UK, it seems that the #Starmer government seems to be following down that road.

     The despicable use of anti-terror force by 30 #policemen in a place of #worship in #London against 6 sic young women discussing...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 21:38:35 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Thomas

     @tg9541 @mattotcha

     #UKpol #UKpolitics
     #Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
     #CivilRights #Legal

     👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

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     ...international #politics over tea makes #British politics incompatible with core #EU values.

     Inevitably, the time will come when a #UK #PM will not only come knocking at the #EU's doors, but literally banging at them, b/c in an antagonistic world of #TradeWars, the only viable possibility for...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 21:39:10 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Thomas

     @tg9541 @mattotcha

     #UKpol #UKpolitics
     #Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
     #CivilRights #Legal

     👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

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     ...relatively small countries on the periphery lies in strengh through unity. De facto, the #UK is an #enclave of the #EuropeanUnion.

     Unless, which is not unlikely, the majority of the #EU's country will be ruled by rightwing or neofascist governments, #Britain is likely to fail the test of #democracy if it...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 21:40:11 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Thomas

     @tg9541 @mattotcha

     #UKpol #UKpolitics
     #Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
     #CivilRights #Legal

     👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈

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     ...continues down this authoritarian path.

     I agree, this is a #MinorityReport inspired #PreCrime, as well as an #Orwellian #ThoughtCrime transgression by the #UK police.
     Hopefully, there will be a high-level investigation.

     //

     Here's what happened in #London:

     https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/police-raid-london-quaker-meeting-house-very-worrying