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1324: The UK's protest crackdown / Adrian Kreutz

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🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Political theorist Adrian Kreutz on the UK's proposed anti-protest “Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill," and his article "What good is a right to toothless protest?" for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/uk-crime-police-protest-bill/

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scheme and being being to take a bite night Dracula and waste the taste because ain't no sugar here.

0:04.0

So come near to get the weatherier. You're welcome to see. You're welcome to be.

0:14.0

Take a job.

0:16.0

You're welcome to deal. Thank you. Thank you, you know!

0:25.0

That's about the meal. This is hell.

0:35.0

Hell.

0:38.0

Okay,

0:40.0

live from late capitalism where the law has become the crime far too often.

0:47.0

This is hell and in the United Kingdom.

0:50.0

The government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to do just that making the law even more so a crime against democracy with a new protest bill that is actually a crackdown on effectively any and all protest in Britain.

1:02.6

Now you might think this is in reaction to protests against police violence

1:06.9

and you would be partly correct, except Johnson's home secretary was pursuing

1:11.6

this crackdown bill way back in early 20

1:15.9

months before any slaveholder statue was targeted for protest and destruction

1:19.9

maybe thrown into a river of course this isn't the kind of protest

1:24.5

crack-down law the military hunt of Myanmar

1:27.9

is imposing upon its citizenry,

1:30.8

other than both Boris Johnson's proposal and the military junta and Myanmar,

1:36.0

both are addressing public assembly, which is defined by both as two or more people gathered together in a public place.

1:47.0

As we've discussed here on this as hell, last week it's similar to the police crackdown on university campuses in Greece and the crackdown on the political opposition in Turkey that we discussed the previous week

1:57.7

And the bill being pursued in the UK is remarkably like some being proposed here in the United States including a new bill in Missouri.

2:04.8

The problem is many of these anti-protest bills are getting support from

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