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Republican protesters arrested at King Charles proclamations

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So much for the sanctimonious clap trap about the sanctity of freedom of speech after Salman Rushdie’s stabbing.

Note that this is the UK's republicans - those opposing the monarchy. Was there commentary in the UK after the stabbing? One can view these comments at this time as incitement-to-riot, or you could view arresting them as protecting-them-from-the-mob. Check whether they are release in a few days or even a few hours.

Bottom line, this was not genuine disruption, simply the expressing of unpopular opinions by single individuals out loud. In the main case discussed, nobody even heard the opinion except the few people nearby in the crowd, and apparently some policemen.

In other words, suppression of dissenting speech by the state. Something that seems more like a dictatorship than a modern democracy.

> more like a dictatorship than a modern democracy.

Always has been.

Should never have happened, and isn't being rolled back fully, but for the main reported the guy has at least now been "de-arrested" (which is a thing here in the UK).

Personally I don't think this was official policy, just over-zealous individual police-persons.

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Bloody peasant!

Come see the violence inherent to the system!

“To find who really holds power, look at who you’re not allowed to criticise”.

Is there a source for that? I have mixed feelings about it, one one hand I'm sure we can all think of groups this applies to, though it's not clear to me they really hold power, it's more about insecurity. Whereas those who really do hold power can and do get criticized all the time, and it seems like it's how they deal with it that defines their hold on power.

In the case of the monarchy, there is probably an element of insecurity as well as a general acknowledgment that they'll be criticized constantly and can't let it bother them.

The quote is often misattributed to Voltaire but it's actually from a radio broadcast by American Neo-Nazi radio host Kevin Alfred Strom, and usually meant to be applied in reference to "the Jews" in the context of Holocaust denial (implying that popular resistance to Holocaust denial, hate speech laws, deplatforming right-wing and neo-nazi posters, etc. is evidence that a Jewish cabal secretly controls society something something Hitler did nothing wrong.)

Thanks, that's interesting in the context of my original comment because I don't believe Jewish people as a group hold any particular power, not do I think they're insecure, nor beyond criticism - my point being that they are actually a terrible example of this witticism. It doesn't surprise me that Neo-nazis would paint such a charicature.

Ah, didn’t know that! F@@k!

If not the source, here's the practice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9

I knew it. Those crippled children in their wheelchairs were out to get me this whole time!

In 20 years, we'll hear about how he stoically wore the crown that he never asked to wear, and this stupid institution will carry on without change.

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