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@5Pillarsuk @Bob_cart124 How's that teacher from Batley getting on?

Burned halal shops, mosques guarded by armed police and talk of racist paramilitary activity. Just a taste of the terror Muslims are witnessing in Belfast as 5Pillars correspondent @Bob_cart124 discovers on his first day arriving in the city, where he finds a community under siege as Muslims retreat into their homes, terrified of continued attacks after days of violence and anti-Muslim pogroms following the June 8 knife attack. 5pillarsuk.com/2026/06/12/mus…

@tayab_ali_ Is £1.2 million of damage to UK defence infrastructure a genuine national security concern? Is breaking the spine of a responding police officer an act of political expression? You seem disingenuous.

🚨 In more than 25 years of working on terrorism cases, I never thought I would see terrorism legislation used in a way that blurs the line between genuine national security concerns and the policing of political expression and protest. The sentencing of the Filton 4 raises profound questions about the direction of our justice system. Counter-terrorism laws exist to protect the public from serious threats, not to chill political dissent, including direct action protest. If we are not careful, we risk setting a dangerous precedent, one that many will view as driven not by principle, but by a desire to shield Israel from criticism. I strongly oppose what happened in this case today.

@STWuk "Arms spending is the issue of our age, " is the only accurate sentence there. Wars are prevented by strong defence.

The resignations of Healey and Carns show the military elite and arms manufacturers are getting ready for a fight Arms spending is the issue of our age. The entire anti-war and trade union movement is needed to demand an end to war-mongering and war-driven austerity! #All2London20June

@IanLotsanumbers @3647martin @jmcevoy_2 @daniaakkad Aggravating factor in sentencing though.

@3647martin @jmcevoy_2 @daniaakkad Breaking someone's spine is assualt and/or attempted murder. Did the jury find them guilty of that, or is just more horseshit from a rogue judge and his apparent loyal bot farm?

I spent all day in Woolwich Crown Court yesterday for the Filton activists' sentencing hearing with my colleague @daniaakkad. The court heard that the Terrorism Act was never intended to cover direct action protest. It heard that all of the defendants had been cleared of violent intent and sentencing them as terrorists would mark a historic first for charges of criminal damage. It heard that the Suffragettes, who did "a bit of smashing themselves", would have been labelled as terrorists but have now been vindicated by history. It heard the activists' goal was to stop the supply chain of drones and weaponry to Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza. It heard that attaching a terrorism connection to a case without it ever being heard by a jury was unconstitutional and posed a threat to the criminal justice system itself. It heard that the "terrorism connection" has been disproportionately used against minority groups and those advocating for them while not being used for neo-Nazis and white supremacists, including the man who killed Jo Cox MP. It heard that the law has been reinterpreted since the action took place, meaning the activists could have had no idea that what they did could have been caught up in terrorism laws at the time of the protest. It heard that the prosecution submitted key evidence just eight days before the hearing, giving the defence no time to review it or even discuss it with their clients. Despite all of this, Judge Jeremy Johnson, who has already tried to refer the defence's lead barrister for contempt of court and been forced to apologise for it, sentenced the defendants as terrorists. The judgment was handed down within minutes, indicating Judge Johnson had already made his mind up before the hearing had begun. Being in court yesterday felt akin to witnessing a colonial crime: punishing activists with terrorism offences in order to set a precedent that taking direct action to stop a UK-backed genocide will not be tolerated.

@probableroller @TWrodbrochen @jmcevoy_2 @daniaakkad A UK factory supplying the MOD at a time of heightened global tension.

@TWrodbrochen @jmcevoy_2 @daniaakkad Just for accuracy - a factory which was producing weapons being send directly to Israel - used to kill civilians and children.

@jmcevoy_2 @daniaakkad Causing £1.2 million of damage to UK defence infrastructure and breaking the back of a responding police officer should not be described as direct action.

@edoardo_g_piras @kennardmatt So what?

@Cheynestoking3 @kennardmatt They may supply the MOD, but Elbit Systems is an Israeli owned company that supplies weapons to Israel

Remember what the Filton actionists did They decommissioned the machinery of genocide The moral equivalent of destroying Zyklon B canisters at Auschwitz A British judge is now sentencing them as 'terrorists' for it

@Bashskaf @kennardmatt Behave yourself.

@Cheynestoking3 @kennardmatt Collateral damage. Thats in western values

@AntoniHouston @kennardmatt Your point being?

@Cheynestoking3 @kennardmatt

@edoardo_g_piras @kennardmatt It's a UK factory supplying the MOD.

@Cheynestoking3 @kennardmatt It's an Israeli owned arms manufacturer

@BobbuAlgae01 @kennardmatt English isn't your first language is it.

@Cheynestoking3 @kennardmatt That's not how terrorism is defined Sorry . Language is real. Your woke words doubt count

@BeckettUnite Causing £1.2 million of damage to UK defence infrastructure and breaking the back of a responding police officer with a sledgehammer? They got off lightly. Should have been double.

@sentientism @ZackPolanski Nice one, that seems like a very fair and decent view. Sadly, Zack appears to exercise the worst double standards on the subject.

@Cheynestoking3 @ZackPolanski I can't answer for Zack, but the Sentientism worldview sees all of us human animals (post sentience and pre-death) as sentient beings deserving of compassion and moral consideration too.

"I hope future generations will look at this time as the time we decided to have morality and compassion towards sentient beings... we should have ended this decades ago." @ZackPolanski

@yogeshtwet Hahaha! The man is a moron.

JD Vance: If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.

@blackcrayne @PulaRJS Terrific self own that.

@Cheynestoking3 @PulaRJS Seems like you're functionally illiterate or incapable of reading anything beyond a surface level. Time to go back to school? Maybe they should put an expiry date on O-levels.

This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1

@patrickamon @afneil

@afneil Imagine one person was rich enough to buy literally all the land in Britain. The rest of us would be, in effect, slaves, in that that person could exact whatever price they wanted in exchange for the right to live here. Now can you see the problem?

He’s floated Space X. How many consumers are being price gouged buying rockets? I ask again — give me an example of how Musk becoming a trillionaire (only on paper — he doesn’t have a trillion dollars under the bed) affects you.

@blackcrayne @PulaRJS The jury did consider the charges put against the defendants. This happened last month.

@Cheynestoking3 @PulaRJS A jury is meant to consider the charges put against the defendants. Consider moving to Russia?

@SarahForRuncorn At least he's talking sense here.

Does anybody else find this extraordinarily arrogant of Burnham? He is already explaining what he may or may not do in government, assuming he can simply trample on the shoulders of the people of Makerfield to get there. x.com/politlcsuk/sta…

@DrNeenaJha Causing £1.2 million of damage to defence infrastructure is terrorism. Breaking the back of a police officer is abhorrent violence. They got off lightly.

What an UNBELIEVABLE MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE!!! This is unprecedented- people who have NOT even been convicted of a terrorism charge will be sentenced as TERRORISTS?! Their crime? Trying to prevent innocent children being MURDERED!! 🚨The UK justice system has been captured 🚨