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Friday, March 12, 2021

Being seriously annoying is soon going to be punishable by ten years in prison in the UK. Welcome to the fascist state. — Richard Murphy


This trend took off with the 2001 near-unanimous passage of the US Patriot Act in response to the emergency of 9/11. It set the example. Authoritarianism as been on the increase since then, and human rights and civil liberties have been in decline in the bastions of Western liberalism, the US and the UK. Western soft power has also declined as a result.

Tax Research UK
Being seriously annoying is soon going to be punishable by ten years in prison in the UK. Welcome to the fascist state.
Richard Murphy | Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University, London; Director of Tax Research UK; non-executive director of Cambridge Econometrics, and a member of the Progressive Economy Forum

6 comments:

  1. For a moment I thought Boris Johnson was looking at life.

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  2. Yes, the concerns of wee little people are annoying. Already got that message.

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  3. Richard Murphy's article is nonsense. Yes: the UK government does want to clamp down on some forms of protest, but I see nothing inherently wrong with that. For example I fail to see why anyone trying to make a political point has much of a right to obstruct anyone else going about their normal business, like getting to work.

    You want to pump out pro-Biden propaganda? That's fine by me. But why do you have the right to block streets to make your point? Murphy doesn't go into that sort of detail, so his article is worthless.

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  4. Protests that don't annoy anyone are useless.

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  5. Non-violence is useless if we're being honest.

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  6. Non-violence only works when there is a violent faction the Non-violent can point to and say, "Deal with us. Or deal with them."

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