It was only after Miles Pickering arrived at Scotland Yard following his arrest that the police realised they had got things embarrassingly wrong.
The T-shirt worn by the Brighton engineer did not express support for a proscribed terrorist group, instead the words on it read “Plasticine Action” and inside the letter “o” was an image of the stop-motion character Morph giving two thumbs up.
Speaking to the Guardian, Pickering admitted it was designed to be an easy mistake to make, appearing to look like the logo of Palestine Action, the protest group banned under terrorism legislation last month, but text underneath the logo reads: “We oppose AI-generated animation.”
So, call a group a terrorist group, and they lose all their rights.
About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’
“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’ And then I walked free, while all the real heroes are the people that are actually getting arrested.”
The reall heroes indeed. Still this Chad got to draw some needed attention to the outright stupidity of it all…
‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me’
“As it should be, you fascist pig”… would have been my reply.
I think it is safe to say that specific cop was just following orders that he doesn’t really agree with.
Calling him a fascist is the same over generalization they are doing to anyone supporting the “terrorist” organization. And when you say the cop should quit rather than follow orders… you don’t know thier situation. They may have a family depending on that job.So what I am saying is, stop just calling everyone a fascist. It cheapens the insult for those who truely deserve it.
Do fascist stuff, you’re a fascist.
I’m currently unemployed. ICE is hiring in my country. I’d rather fucking starve to death than join them or the police because I’m not a fascist.
See the difference?
There are fascists, and those who would rather die than be associated with them. Which one are you?
I’m with you but have you considered joining just to fuck things up by being obstructive from the inside?
deleted by creator
Yes, actually, but don’t believe I’d be able to do much good. I could be “incompetent” and maybe achieve slower arrests and cost them money unnecessarily, but outside of just “accidentally” burning a precinct to the ground or something else that could be done by anyone, i feel joining would just make me another incompetent fascist slowly fumbling the agenda forward.
I do see the difference, you can only see black and white. You also have no long term vision at all. But a few other people can see the value of treating people like people and blaming the system and leaders for what they forced people to do.
Every Nazi was ‘just following orders’ did that make them less of a Nazi?
The answer is no… going along with ‘orders’ is being complicit with them, following fascist orders makes you a fascist… so yes… he is actually a fascist… and that now makes you a fascist apologist.
So by your logic, the jews we worked in the factories helping to make the rockets for van braun were nazis too. They were just following orders. For both them and many non-jewish Germans, if they didn’t, they would have been killed or worse.
This is exactly why I quoted that bit. Introspection is the natural enemy of fascism, and this employee isn’t deferring to outside reasoning for his actions.
I mean outside of him feeling obliged to abide by his superiors, he’s really thinking (starting at least) for himself.
To their credit, they did release him once they realised their mistake.
Bloody funny though.
Be funnier if the police in the UK weren’t arresting people for wearing the wrong T-shirt.
As much as the US is fucked and how much we hear about how it’s fucked, it feels a little bittersweet to see other developed countries’ governments fucking up just as bad. The fact that you can’t protest about Palestine is asinine.
The US and UK have been in an arms race to see who can tank their country the fastest for quite some time now.
It’s kind of grating that it’s so bad in the United States that people start applauding the EU doing stupid shit too.
We should be united against this stupid shit, not laughing at each other over our particular forms of suffering.
This has nothing to do with the EU though
It’s really not the ‘where’, it’s the general thought ((less)(ness)) we should not be slightly relieve at other people doing stupid shit, we should -as people- make a stand against stupid shit.
I think we should unite against stupid shit being laid upon us by greedy people rather than laugh at each others’ misery.
Britain has been using the Troubles for a long time to justify all manner of perverting freedoms and rights. They’re not far behind China in surveillance and suppression.
They’re not far behind China
They’re leagues ahead. We just don’t like to acknowledge it, because they’re White Westerners rather than Evil NonWhite Communists.
I’m a naturalized immigrant and loudly anti-regime online. Just today I had two people tell me to “go back to China and see how long you last criticizing the government there”(ironically they never seem to realize that they’re advocating for Chinese style authoritarianism under trump), and “Get out of this country you commie.”
Most non-POC simply don’t understand this reality of racism and tension in this country. It’s the definition of privilege. Not needing to think about how police forces or others will react to you because of the color of your skin.
This is just normal treatment of any kind of POC in a western nation in the modern day. Getting randomly screamed at, assaulted, or reported to the police entirely due to skin color and accent.
As true as that statement is it is very unnerving to see a lot of countries see a rise in the alt-right movements gain footholds and numbers in elections in multiple countries … with we could all agree nazis are bad again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Friend: Tell me we live in a fascist country, without saying we live in a fascist country
Me: Posts link to this article
Someone should start selling t shirts that look similar to reach other but of different subjects so then cops there have a hard time telling the difference. My proposals are:
Palepstein Action: Release the Epstein Files
Palworld Action: Screw Nintendo
Plasticine AcTiON₂: Stop Petroleum Pollution
Palladian Action: Preserve Classical Architecture
Paladin Act20n: The Best DnD Class
Pallial ACTON: Wear Helmets, Ride Safely
Ballantine Attraction: Visit Yellowstone
Palestine Paction: 1947 British Mandate Period
Pastime Abstraction: Netflix and Chill
Someone should start selling t shirts that look similar to reach other but of different subjects so then cops there have a hard time telling the difference.
After the bill banning their organization was signed, Palestine Action changed its name to “Yvette Cooper”, the Homeland Secretary who authored the bill.
I hope this is real
I think it would be great if at the next protests the crowds were filled with these nonsense t-shirts and signs to waste the police’s time. It is completely legal to protest a proscription order so I don’t think they have any legitimate grounds to arrest anyone. And if they do, they look very silly.
Palletline Action
deleted by creator
I just bought one. We’ll see how my fellow Canadians deal with it. ;)
Illustrating very clearly why freedom of speech and expression are so vitally important.
Now I want a plasticine action t-shirt. Surprisingly easy to find: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirts/plasticine-action
