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1. Jun Pang @hyjpang_ (from) Liberty: the amendment “will effectively give the home secretary the power to clamp down on protests as and when the government chooses. This will have devastating consequences for dissent.”
/...11.
opendemocracy.net/en/public-orde…
2. With all due respect to Liberty, the self understanding of myself and many people in @JustStop_Oil, is that a post-modernist construction of "protest", facilitated by Liberty and the liberal space, supports the legitimacy of repression.
3. We hold a modernist orientation - namely there is, objectively, protest in the private interest and protest in the public interest - and these are fundamentally different legal and moral categories.
4. Repression of highly disruptive activities in the private interest is legitimised by the requirement of the State to maintain public order.
5. Repression of highly disruptive activities in the public interest (and by implication when the ruling regime has been overtaken by private interests) is illegitimate legally and morally.
6. The notion of objectivity in politics is problematic (hence the popularity of post modernist orientations), but arguably not the case in legal matters and certainly not the case in natural science.
7. When a government engages in physical activities which destroy livelihoods and end lives in pursuit of private interests, then we are in the realm of natural science and legal criminality - not politics.
8. This is undeniably the case with the #deathproject of the government to continue to put carbon into the air willingly, and knowing full well that it will lock in the death of millions of people and the high probability of the collapse of civilisation in the near future.
9. In this context, the repressive actions of the government against #CivilResistance to this #deathproject are objectively illegal and immoral. The government is engaging in a complex but still real form of arbitrary tyranny.
10. Liberty and other self declared liberals have a duty to make clear:
1. The government is treasonous.
2. Resistance by democrats is now not just a right but a Duty.
11. If the liberal space continues to fudge and delay on acting upon this reality, then we will lose all the benefits of social progress over the past two hundred yrs in the next decade. So far they have catastrophically failed in their duty.

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More from @RogerHallamCS21

Jun 24
1. 🧵 I'm in court today.
Why?
Because I'm not pretending anymore.
And if you stop pretending that's what happens to you. Image
2. “On our current path, civilisation as we know it will disappear. If we meet current commitments only – net zero by 2050 – perhaps some form of humanity will survive, managing the challenges of continued extreme weather events, ice loss, and sea-level and temperature rises.” @Sir_David_King
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…Image
3. “The economic damage wrought by climate change is six times worse than previously thought, with global heating set to shrink wealth at a rate consistent with the level of financial losses of a continuing permanent war.”
theguardian.com/environment/ar…
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Nov 15, 2023
🎙️The British Establishment is A Cult: My BBC Interview

"If warming reaches or exceeds 2 degrees Centigrade (Celsius), mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans.”

1/9 🧵

2. Like other interviews I’ve done with members of the political class, this one again shows their psychotic inability to see that the real world trumps the political world.

The contemporary British Establishment is a cult that believes in two extreme worldviews:
3. Vulgar Utilitarianism:

The complete inability to see the value in doing anything because it is good in itself. Everything is a function of the question “does it work?” – which practically results in a chronic short- termism, and the notion that ends always justify the means
Read 9 tweets
Nov 11, 2023
1. 🧵It is important that Hansen's paper "one of the most important published on the state of the #ClimateCrisis in years" is seen as combining two modes of analysis: ... @Sir_David_King @DrJamesEHansen : ..2/.📢➡️
2. ... the naturalistic objectivist analysis of the physical and biological environment and a normative subjectivist analysis of the process of social change.
3. Often the latter gets hidden in the former so that embedded in "the science", consciously or unconsciously, are high disputable statements about "how to make social and political change happen."
Read 10 tweets
Oct 26, 2023
1/10 🧵"By [2100], an estimated 3 to 6 billion individuals—approximately 1/3 to 1/2 of the global population—might find themselves confined beyond the liveable region, encountering severe heat, limited food availability, & elevated mortality rates because of...climate change"
3/10 Read this carefully to see how scientists use euphemisms: "confined beyond the liveable region" - why not just say "will be confined to an unliveable region".
Read 10 tweets
Oct 1, 2023
1. "We environment reporters are urged not to say this because it may sap the will of the public to take action on #climate if they believe it’s too late"
Planning to have people die is one thing - knowing this truth and lying about it is something else.
edition.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.co.…
2. There is a special place in hell being prepared for liberal journalists.
3. Over the past 5 years, every time I have the misfortune to meet privately with journalists, scientists and politicians, I feel physically sick. They always talk about how fucked things are but how "we can''t tell people the real situation because... ".
Read 4 tweets
Sep 26, 2023
1/10 🧵How British progressive neoliberals facilitated fascism last week.

Last week the left progressive establishment again made the fatal error of lying to the British people about the alternative to the Sunak policy shift to national suicide. It pretended that maintaining ...
2/10 ... the move to “net zero” would create green growth and related delusional abstractions. This decision to lie is rationalized by an embedded pathology of the neoliberal left: that is better to lie to make short term gain (win the election), than to tell the truth, ...
3/10 ... that is to lose in the short term and gain in the longer term.

Fascism has its own lie: that it can ignore net zero & everything will be fine. True in the short term but suicidal (like all fascisms) in the long term. A final suicide in this case.
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