Thread by @RogerHallamCS21

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.”
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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.