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Disturbing footage of @BBCNewsnight’s Nick Watt, being pursued by anti-lockdown protesters
@umairh wrote recently “Britain — the gentle, wise, intelligent, expansive one — was put to the torch. It became a nation afflicted by a fever dream of nationalism”
@umairh wrote recently “Britain — the gentle, wise, intelligent, expansive one — was put to the torch. It became a nation afflicted by a fever dream of nationalism”
Such scenes became commonplace in America where #Trump denounced the media as “fake news” or “enemies of the people” (see @AP’s @johnminchillo at the #CapitolRiots👇)
The problem is, once the genie has been let out the bottle, it’s hard to put it back in.
The problem is, once the genie has been let out the bottle, it’s hard to put it back in.
The Reichstag fire in 1933 shows how quickly a modern country can be hijacked & transformed into an authoritarian regime
How they laughed at Hitler in 1923 when he marched on a Munich beer hall with his comedic moustache
Rule by Decree introduced after the fire wasn’t so funny!
How they laughed at Hitler in 1923 when he marched on a Munich beer hall with his comedic moustache
Rule by Decree introduced after the fire wasn’t so funny!
#BREAKING: #Switzerland votes YES in referendum to giving the police far-reaching & dangerous new powers that could to target legitimate political protest & subject children as young as 12 to coercive measures
@AmnestySvizzera @Amnesty_Suisse #BreakingNews
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
@AmnestySvizzera @Amnesty_Suisse #BreakingNews
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
#BREAKING: In Switzerland police will now be permitted to use foot shackles, no-contact orders, zone bans & preventive house arrest against people who have not committed a crime or not suspected of preparing to commit a crime” #BreakingNews @amnesty @LibyaLiberty #ThisIsNotADrill
Last month, @amnesty warned that #Switzerland’s new anti-terror laws - which grants sweeping new powers to police purportedly to prevent terrorist attacks - are a real threat to human rights
This roll-back of rights is happening across Europe & the world
thelocal.ch/20210517/switz…
This roll-back of rights is happening across Europe & the world
thelocal.ch/20210517/switz…
