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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2024
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You say that and yet nobody that's been smashing up weapons factories for the last 2 years has received a single conviction lol
Did they get caught planning in zoom? Because I have a feeling they'd get at least one or two convictions if they got caught
Palestine Action? They're arrested regularly. They don't take it to court because they don't want a weapons company's secrets being open to evidence requests that they have to comply with during the discovery phase of a trial.
They definitely convicted at least a handful of them just last year, but they ended up getting less time than the Just Stop Oil people so maybe you're right that they should have just done something cooler
https://www.palestineaction.org/teledyne-sentence/
Teledyne being an american one may have been the problem there. All the israeli factories such as Elbit have simply had arrested activist walk without charges.
They definitely got charged and were mostly acquitted by a jury. Only one conviction.
https://palestineaction.org/elbit-eight-verdicts/
This is the 2021 case and is before the actions really blew up. There have been literally hundreds of people arrested taking part in recent years. They just let people walk out a few hours later. Often they don't even arrest, just detain for some time on site and take details then let people go after.
So it's just the most recent secrets the weapons company is hiding by not going to court? And only specifically the Israeli one? Are you sure you aren't just like...making stuff up?
The reason for it is speculation. But I'm certainly not making stuff up about people being arrested and released over and over and over. Palestine Action is not particularly heavy on hiding identities, most action is performed openly in daylight and unmasked in full view of local population called out to help take part. https://x.com/Pal_action/status/1812464348662575539
I am however concerned about the new attacks on banks they've been doing. These are considerably more likely to get jail time.