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[–] [email protected] 192 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This Kafka-esque bullshit is all intentional to scare other protesters.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Exactly.

These protests are often enough extremely mild but get prosecuted like terrorist, while much more violent protests get a slap on the wrist at max.

Here in Germany, right wing farmers protested by illegally blocking entire cities with their tractors, much worse interruptions than the glued-to-the-street teenager, and they actually threatened violence. Yet, only a handful of them got any form of legal trouble, and that only for petty stuff.

Guess, which protesters threatened the status quo and which just wanted more money out of the system?

[–] adam_y 27 points 3 days ago

Oh we had the farmers block a city here in the UK too.

Some washed up, abusive, TV presenter worked them up when the government changed the laws to inheritance tax that he had avoided by buying a farm.

Yeah, no one was arrested there either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

thats sort of similar to the Exxon Valdez spill and the Alaskan fisherman blockading their waters. It sort of went the same, the fisherman got a good deal, but then a few years later another judge changed the deal to fuck over the fisherman.