Seems wrong to use anti-protest laws to go into a church to bust up a meeting behind closed doors. First raid on Quakers in London in memory. @london.gov.uk - have you any comment? www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve... - ThreadSky

dankaszeta.bsky.social • 13 days ago

Seems wrong to use anti-protest laws to go into a church to bust up a meeting behind closed doors. First raid on Quakers in London in memory.

@london.gov.uk - have you any comment?

https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house

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franksoc.bsky.social•13 days ago

Hard to imagine a more harmless group than the quakers. This is messed up

showerabsolute.bsky.social•13 days ago

The people meeting were not the Quakers. They had rented a room from the Quakers.

dankaszeta.bsky.social•13 days ago

Not sure we actually know the individual faiths of the people in the meeting and it’d be a disturbing breach of privacy if we did, and I’m not sure they have the equivalent of Anglican electoral rolls anyway

showerabsolute.bsky.social•13 days ago

That won't wash and is irrelevant; we actually know who the group were - not a Quaker group; any group can rent a Quaker meeting hall as long as it doesn't breach one of their (pretty easy not to breach) principles.

showerabsolute.bsky.social•13 days ago

Personally I think arrest for conspiracy to commit civil disobedience is a pretty dicey thing; the location is completely irrelevant.

dankaszeta.bsky.social•13 days ago

Bad tactics to implement a bad law.

dankaszeta.bsky.social•13 days ago

If the police feel they have probable cause to question someone at the meeting, they can go to the person’s home and talk to them. Raiding a church is bad optics

wa7iut.bsky.social•13 days ago

what about the Quaker Act 1662?

showerabsolute.bsky.social•13 days ago

An optics based argument isn't one.

showerabsolute.bsky.social•13 days ago

Fear or favour Vs religion is not something I'm super keen on. Moreso when the religion concerned emphatically *does not* believe in sacred spaces

dankaszeta.bsky.social•13 days ago

It certainly is

alphabetpony.bsky.social•13 days ago

Rather than getting worked up as to where they were arrested, we should get worked up about why they were arrested.

dankaszeta.bsky.social•13 days ago

It’s pretty telling that Labour hasn’t repealed the shitty Tory anti protest laws

alphabetpony.bsky.social•13 days ago

Indeed, that’s what’s really the problem here

dankaszeta.bsky.social•12 days ago

This is a multi-layered problem

dankaszeta.bsky.social•13 days ago

There will be people who would have voted the Tories out of power because of these draconian anti-protest laws, yet Labour has retained the intolerant tools of the discredited Tory government that they replaced

stillwaving.bsky.social•13 days ago

The law, as I understand it, is to deal with disruptive protests. It is ‘difficult’ to imagine a meeting in a Quaker meeting house being described as a disruptive protest. 🤷‍♀️

dankaszeta.bsky.social•13 days ago

The law is used to ban talking about or discussing having a protest

stillwaving.bsky.social•13 days ago

🤬🤬