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I don't think they have any coherent view on it. They just think that the people are unjustifiably punished, so any action on their side is right, and any action against them is wrong. The notion that sometimes it's necessary to go through a process to fix an injustice rather than every action to oppose such an injustice being correct and justified, doesn't enter into it.
It's not one I believe in.
Not sure they are required to have a coherent view on the solution.
As the complaint is that the prisoners are being treated like terrorists. For comiting property damage. At a time when their org was in no way classed as terrorists.
The hypocrisy of solutions is part of the point of the complaint. IE they should not be treated the way they are. So folks objecting to the treatment have zero requirement to define a solution that allows the gov to continue to treat them that way.
Put bluntly novaras claim is they demands are.
Stop calling protesters terrorist's. Stop supporting genocide. And treat them based on the crime they committed. Property damage.
The government choice is to agree to this. Or suffer the media backlash of their actions.
The idea "Their options are let them die or force feed them”. is just a totally false statement.
Their job is to point that falsehood out. Not provide a solution that allows the gov to continue abuse.
They’re being held for the second of two linked trials relating to an incident during which a police officer was violently attacked with a sledgehammer, causing spinal injuries that have prevented them from returning to work to date. It’s a sly manipulation to claim it’s just property damage.
Utter rubbish.
Officer attacking victim on the ground was attacked as a form of defence.
In no fucking way shape or form is that terrism. And in no way do police have immunity to violent attacks on protestors. do not spread your propaganda and lies using my posts.
Its also sly manipulation to describe the event as
The police officer chose to brutalise a woman on the ground, they cannot expect to be able to get away with their vile behaviour without the people they hope to police to defend themselves.