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[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 25 points 3 hours ago

It's pretty fucked up how highlighting a groups obviously superior moral position is treated like insurrection or treachery. The UK isn't even in a war with Iran.

[-] Soot@hexbear.net 21 points 3 hours ago

UK: Supports Israeli genocide of Palestine and uses military bases to support unprovoked invasion of Iran.

Iran: Fights back specifically against said actors and military bases

UK: capitaldcolon TERRORISTS

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 27 points 4 hours ago

I'm just saying, that if thinking positive thoughts about a group is enough to land you in prison, you might as well go all in and actually join that group and help them achieve their goals, hell, you'd probably have better protection from the law that way, since they'd teach you good opsec. People in the UK are likely to actually be safer aiding an abetting these organisations than they would be to just support them with words.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 3 hours ago

now I'm a supporter of two proscribed orgs

[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 16 points 5 hours ago

Oh, this is bad news for my International Retro Gaming Club

[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 19 points 6 hours ago

Oi, you got a loicense for those takes?

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 23 points 6 hours ago

i proscribe the uk government.

[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 16 points 7 hours ago

You would probably get less time for hitting a member of parliament wirh a folding chair. I know which one the Rock would do.

[-] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 68 points 10 hours ago

Genuinely this Labour government is more oppressive than the fucking Tory party. Even calling them centrists at this point would be too charitable given the monstrous right-wing policies they have been carrying out.

Shabana Mahmood is an evil cretin.

[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 26 points 7 hours ago

They used her specifically to push this through. Muslims here don't support Iran's revolutionary guard. But from a current Labour "public image" it really suits them to have this dumb ass fronting it. Also gives her personal air time. Can you imagine the outrage if she, as a Muslim then said the same about Israel

[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 hours ago

What the fuck. So there must now be a list. Where is Israel on that list? North Korea? USA?

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 14 points 1 hour ago

What has North Korea done?

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 14 points 1 hour ago

Persevered in the face of imperialism

[-] soyaEnjoyer@hexbear.net 9 points 1 hour ago

odd that you'd put best korea in the same list as the lesser and greater satans

[-] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 49 points 11 hours ago

Uh oh.

Thank you for your service, IRGC.

[-] orlando@hexbear.net 10 points 7 hours ago

Let us know if you're arrested for that.

[-] blunder@hexbear.net 35 points 11 hours ago

1984 was not a warning but a playbook

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 14 points 2 hours ago

Aremoved, a snitch, a plagiarist, and a racist walk into a bar.

The bartender says, "how's the new book coming, Mr Orwell?"

Also the man was a fucking hack.

[-] oliveoil@hexbear.net 58 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

George Orwell was a Brit, who worked as a BBC propagandist.

CIA-brained people say this is what communism would look like, but really he was describing a personal account of actually-existing capitalist liberal democracy.

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 20 points 10 hours ago

Is the UK or Germany worse about this stuff at this point? Which Euro-nation has pissed away the most liberty for israel?

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 21 points 6 hours ago

Working across and with people in both my sense is that Germany has gone further, faster when it comes to specific criminalisation of explicitly anti-Israel sentiment (red triangles, watermelon pins, anti-imperialist reading groups, Israeli loyalty oaths essentially to be in local office etc), but Britain is catching up on that and has now built a far scarier and more far-reaching legal precedent/power structure to classify everyone from pensioners to protesters, defense lawyers, charities, community groups, and journalists as terrorists or foreign spies/assets. And worse still it's not even specific, so they can hand the keys to Reform or whoever to immediately expand it to literally anyone at all (that isn't aligned with the fascist state).

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 22 points 12 hours ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0jkj7e87go

Full textHome Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will be designated a threat to national security.

Mahmood will use new government powers to ban support for the group, which has been linked to death threats, attacks and intimidation in the UK.

In a written statement to Parliament, she set out how support for the IRGC, from expressing a positive opinion to assisting them, will now be an offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

Two other groups are also being proscribed, the Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right (IMCR), and the volunteer corps of Russia's GRU (foreign military intelligence agency).

New powers will be given to police and intelligence agencies to tackle espionage, foreign interference, sabotage and physical attacks from these groups.

Iran's IRGC is believed to have directed seven attacks at UK locations linked to Jewish and Israeli communities, including the antisemitic arson attack on four Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green on March 23, which the IMCR publicly claimed responsibility for.

The prime minister promised to fast-track the National Security (State Threats) Act in April this year, and draft regulations for proscription can now be laid before parliament.

Announcing the new powers, Sir Keir Starmer said: "We will never let Britain be a playground for states who want to spread fear, division and violence on our streets.

"We have already taken tough action against the Iranian regime and those linked to it, and against Russian operatives and networks targeting our country.

"These new powers will make it easier to prosecute and lock up anyone carrying out their dirty work here in Britain."

If approved by Parliament later this week, those conducting acts of sabotage including arson on behalf of these groups could face life imprisonment.

The change means prosecutors will no longer need to establish a foreign power connection in every case, making it easier and more straightforward to build cases.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: "Iran and Russia are using proxies and thugs to do their dirty work on our shores.

"I have rapidly designated three groups so those working for them will be tracked down and put behind bars."

MI5 identified at least 20 potentially lethal Iranian-backed plots against people in the UK in the last year, and the IRGC is central to the Iranian state's operations, which particularly targets the Jewish community and Iranian dissidents.

The IRGC was set up after the 1979 revolution to defend the country's new Islamic system, but has since become a powerful arm of the state with a reach beyond Iran's borders and an estimated 190,000 active personnel.

The militia has consistently been accused by Western nations of sponsoring terrorism abroad, and has been listed as a terror group by Australia, Canada and the US.

In January this year, the European Union also added the IRGC to its terror list, following its reported role in brutal crackdowns on Iranian protesters in Iran the same month.

The UK has lagged behind but now argues new powers are required in the face of a rise in state-backed aggression – increasing in scope and complexity with more threats to life and increased use of proxy groups.

In a written statement, Home Office minister Angela Eagle said: "The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a central component of the Iranian state's security apparatus, answerable directly to Iran's Supreme Leader.

"Its role extends far beyond that of a conventional military force. It encompasses intelligence activity, the use of proxy actors, and the projection of influence designed to advance Iranian state objectives."

[-] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 55 points 11 hours ago

We will never let Britain be a playground for states who want to spread fear, division and violence on our streets.

BREAKING NEWS: Kier Starmer Wants to Dissolve the British Government

[-] AmazingSUPERG 11 points 10 hours ago

I know nothing about British politics but I just found out Count Binface exists. Could he stop this law if elected?

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 18 points 10 hours ago
[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 hours ago

And he's not gonna be elected, it's gonna be Farage

Liberals want to own Farage by letting him run uncontested, that's really gonna show him

[-] soyaEnjoyer@hexbear.net 6 points 1 hour ago

something funny could happen

[-] AmazingSUPERG 5 points 1 hour ago

That is a shame.

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