Is what you mean is that we dont have two tier Policing?
We do.
For example, in July 2024, 5 people were imprisoned for a total of 21 years for organizing peaceful Just Stop Oil protests
In July 2000 a series of fuel tax protests began. The first day of protest that year was organised by the Conservative party. Two months later, in September, the campaign escalated into a nationwide shutdown by a coalition of lorry drivers and farmers. They blockaded oil refineries and fuel depots across the country. Nearly three-quarters of filling stations ran dry, supermarkets began rationing food, ambulance services were severely disrupted, schools shut, bus and train services were suspended, operations were cancelled and the NHS was put on red alert.
Simultaneously, the protesters blockaded motorways with convoys of slow-moving trucks. Transport across much of Britain ground to a halt.
It was said at the trial of the JSO people that their actions had an economic cost of £770,000.
The cost to businesses of the 2000 fuel protests was estimated at £1bn, which in today’s terms is about 3000 times what the JSO protests cost. In 2000 no one even bothered to document the missed hospital appointments, school days, work days, flights and funerals (of which the judge Christopher Hehir made so much in sentencing the Just Stop Oil protesters), as millions of people had to cancel their plans.
And not one organiser or activist was prosecuted.
In fact, the first convener of the September protests, Brynle Williams, used his resultant celebrity to get elected as a Conservative member of the Welsh parliament, where he was treated as a pillar of the establishment.
Looks a lot like "2-tier policing" to me.
That makes perfect sense. A tough no nonsense Police force that deals with crime with an iron fist
Including incitement to murder?
All those who say it was right for an RAF veteran with mobility problems to be arrested for holding a paper sign that reads “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” but wrong to arrest someone calling for asylum seekers to be burned alive are arguing for 2-tier policing.
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