“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
― John F. Kennedy
Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962
We all know what happens when you’re not even allowed to protest for your grievances
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what protests are, but it seems to me that if you don’t have the right to disruptively protest then you don’t have the right to protest.
I guess it depends on the level of disruption. Standing in the street is a little different from dismantling a bridge for example.
But if you can dismantle a bridge without hurting anyone, and do so in protest of something, that’d be impressive and should be allowed.
I agree it’d be impressive. But is making thousands of people drive more hours every day due to increased congestion hurting them? In the US, most people wouldn’t have another option than to just sit in traffic much longer.
There was a farmers protest here during Covid, protesting environmental laws. They took their tractors onto the highways en-masse, super dangerous. They camped out outside a politician’s house at night to threaten them. Burned things etc etc. Thousands of farmers involved, police didn’t do anything for weeks. No arrests, no consequences.
There were arrests. And as far as I know, extinction rebellion right now are treated the same. I am unaware of any sentencing though.
Fascism pretty much. It’s what any capitalist economy resorts to when it’s about to collapse.
This is only the beginning. Eventually they’ll resort to returning to slavery, or quasi-slavery to keep the economy going and then… collapse.
It’s unironically proof of how deeply climate collapse is affecting humanity. The fact that they’re openly honest about the fact that this is meant to intimidate people into not protesting is all you need to know.