From: roger@hayter.org 
  
 On 11 Aug 2025 at 19:25:18 BST, "Jon Ribbens"  
 wrote: 
  
 > On 2025-08-11, Spike  wrote: 
 >> Roger Hayter  wrote: 
 >>> On 11 Aug 2025 at 12:06:21 BST, "GB"  
 wrote: 
 >>>> Does anyone care very much about the proscribed group Palestine Action? 
 >>>> A group of protesters who destroyed aircraft on the flimsiest of 
 >>>> pretexts. I bet that most of the people arrested were completely 
 >>>> muddle-headed about what they were doing. 
 >> 
 >>> Which is serious, perhaps treasonous, criminal damage. But it simply 
 >>> doesn't meet the criteria for terrorism - the essence of which is 
 >>> striking civilian targets to demoralise populations. Not military 
 actions. 
 >> 
 >> Are you sure that is a correct definition of terrorism under UK law? 
 >> 
 >> I thought it was something to do with attempting to affect government 
 >> policy by means of criminal activity, but of course ICBW. 
 > 
 > The UK legal definition of terrorism, which would include the UK 
 > government itself as a terrorist organisation, is much more wide-ranging 
 > than the dictionary definition. I would assume Roger was referring to 
 > the latter. 
  
 Quite so. We are near to the stage where the government will define as 
 terrorism attempting to affect government policy by voting the wrong way (ie 
 not Tory or Labour). 
  
  
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