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Climate protesters can't rely on beliefs in criminal damage cases, UK court rules (news.yahoo.com)

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LONDON (Reuters) - Environmental activists accused of criminal damage cannot rely on their political or philosophical beliefs as a defence, London's Court of Appeal ruled on Monday, raising the prospect of more protesters being convicted for direct action.

Various groups have targeted companies and political parties in Britain, causing damage to property in order to raise awareness of climate-change issues.

The rise in the use of direct action has prompted a wider crackdown on protest movements in Britain and across Europe, particularly in relation to environmental groups.

Monday's ruling effectively prevents environmental protesters from relying on their beliefs about the dangers of climate change as a defence to criminal damage.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The wording of the article here, 'can't rely on beliefs' is doing a lot of work, first it frames legitimate concerns about climate change as 'beliefs', and second of all it implies that people are somehow dodging criminal damage charges based on their subjective feelings, which isn't what's happening at all. Instead, the UK government is stripping away a layer of legal protection for protestors which was established in the Criminal Damage Act of 1971 (for more info google 'the consent defence').

The UK has been drifting into authoritarianism for a long time, but in the last few years, the repeated attacks on people's right to protest have become far more transparent. There is a high-ranking UK judge called Silas Reid who became famous for forbidding mentions of climate change in his courtroom, and recently threatened a jury with prosecution if they acquit a group of climate protestors.

It's sad to see newspapers spin this into such neutral language. This is a brazen assault on human rights.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And people buy into this crap!

"Why do you drive a car or use a phone if you're fighting for the climate!?!?" We all want the tech jackass, we just don't want to destroy the environment we live in. Is being clean and careful really that much to ask? According to the Government, it seems so.