Quick summary of the last few days here since I agreed(!!) with Delmbox's post, writing:

"Indeed, but they are a proscribed group so she chose to wear that t-shirt knowing she would be arrested and the costs and officer time that entailed"

For that position we get the following;

Sludge:
"Get your daft old racist on the case"

"execute all the protestors -JamesWales"

"You stupid fecking cnnt" (Subsequently deleted it seems)

Bob
"Being contrarian and being a prat"

"Your views are becoming ever more extreme"

AZ
"You have a slavish devotion to a pedantic and idiotic position"

"You're at the bottom of the Grand Canyon on this, Jimbo. Keep digging and you'll likely hit your homeland of Hades."

"you're an idiot"

Added to that we have Bob giving birth to some conspiracy (with no evidence) that the police and the govt are lying about the cost of airplane engine damage and we have a couple of the other usual suspects making insinuations here and there.

And why? Firstly for trusting devolving the implementation of the law to lawmakers (A Labour govt no less!) who were led by an MI5 report. Secondly for understanding that the police need to enforce laws without prejudice and thirdly for saying that people who openly break the law should expect to get nicked. All the while recognizing it's a contentious issue and stating a couple of times that protestors should not be aggressively dealt with nor harshly sentenced.

Barely more than a year ago a load of us got called idiots and fascists by the same kind of people above for NOT supporting a potential Labour Govt. Not we get called the same for having the temerity TO support the principle of enforcing the laws they've introduced. The constant theme being if we don't wholly agree with whatever your position is then you will get personal abuse.

For essentially supporting a government and police force instead of some conspiracy theory and online opinions Bob calls me extreme, Sludge calls me a cnnt and AZ calls me an idiot. Cyril accepts people have polarized opinions and seems to think that settling these things with laws introduced by an the govt is not the solution. So what is?!

At what point do you guys realize how irrational you sound? You are behaving exactly the same way a lot of the MAGA, antivax, far-right trolls sound on the internet.

You may be right on Palestine Action. You may not. You may be right on Lucy Letby or any other legal issue too, but devolving this decision to a government aware of more of the facts of the case than any of us is absolutely NOT extreme. It's the norm.