Those charged with terrorism for supporting Palestine Action will have no jury in trials limited to 36 minutes each, with prison sentences up to six months. These are the plans for Starmer Courts for mass trials of anti-Genocide protestors.

    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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      11 hours ago

      They’ve been frantically confiscating any remotely sharp object for years, and nobody has firearms. The populace has been disarmed for many years now.

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        9 hours ago

        3d printers? Pipes, nails, and cordite/fulminates?

        Factory built firearms I can believe, but I don’t believe that the populace would be incapable of constructing their own, nor would be unwilling to if push came to shove.

        It is a modern phenomenon, but there is no effective way to fully disarm a population without vetting and restricting the imports and purchases within the entire economy (including the internet/communications infrastructure), which I’d imagine the UK doesn’t want to do.

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          8 hours ago

          I mean, there’s always the classic chair leg with a few nails in it.

          You can always improvise a blunt weapon, but realistically I think something like a general strike is more likely to happen.

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        10 hours ago

        Might be time for the King’s citizens to invest in smuggling. If European coyotes can get an entire person across the Channel, it’s not impossible.