Quote Originally Posted by Elwood Blues View Post
No, in the post I replied to, Jon starts with the words 'Violent application of red paint ' which refers to the Brize Norton incident, not the one he mentions in a separate post referring to the Palestinian action group ( who in the separate post from Jon were carrying placards not singing)

Thus I took him to be comparing the Brize Norton incident to the Dorset protest the Guardian piece he mentions is talking about which, to me, is a nonsense.

If he wants to compare the Dorset protest to the Palestinian Action group and their placards that is a more valid comparison.

But it depends on what the placards said, ( and in the interest of justice, which songs are being sung in the Dorset protests ) which we don't know from Jon's posts

That is exactly what I was doing - and trying to give James's ridiculous defence of Yvette Cooper a poke!

The 'nonsense' is the whole point - but unfortunately satire is dead.

However, the comparison of Palestine Action with the Dorset trespassers is far less nonsensical than the comparison of Palestine Action with ISIS.

On the same day that Parliament backed Cooper's order to proscribe Palestine Action many of the leading supporters of that action were celebrating the Suffragettes. As they should. But the suffragettes - alongside non violent actions of the type familiar from Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace and Palestine Action like chaining themselves to railings and graffiti - also carried out a bombing and arson campaign that killed 4 and injured 20-30.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25...estine-action/

It is the hypocrisy, the double standards and the abuse of state power that I am trying to highlight.