Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march [UK]
Stephen Gingell, 57, thought to be first to receive prison sentence under new Public Order Act
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Amazing. Losing democratic rights quite quickly up there in the UK, I see.
The solution is to break the social contract on both sides.
Governments need to learn they answer to the people, not the wealthy.
Nothing will be accomplished without violence.
Civil disobedience, more likely.
Civil disobedience is what the history books say is the thing to do. Not what reality says is the thing to do.
Agreed. See Scheidel's The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
Civil disobedience is what they just got 6 months in jail for.
That is how civil disobedience works. Nelson Mandela was in prison for years.
So what's your complaint? They did what you said they should do.
He also did some fucked up violent shit to get his point across. Look up necklacing.
My understanding was that he did some kind of tacit endorsement of necklacing. Can't recall if he was popularising songs that described it or something. However pretty sure he was not personally involved.
Por que no los dos?
What are you talking about? They still have the right and ability to vote.
Yeah because we know democratic rights evolve just around the right to vote and nothing else on top of that
I'm sure North Koreans feel blessed with democracy and freedom every time they hit the polls LOL
They would be totally good if they got 2 choices instead of one.
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