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2:51pm April 8, 2013

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In Tory Britain, as the cuts kick in, even the most peaceful protests are put down as a warning to the rest of us. Last November, Bethan Tichborne, a 28-year-old teaching assistant, appeared at a public event in Oxfordshire and calmly told David Cameron that he had “blood on his hands”. She was referring to the prime minister’s decision to take away vital social support from people with disabilities, a policy that has already cost lives.

Tichborne was grabbed, tackled to the ground and restrained during her arrest, as Cameron continued to speak: “The police officers on top of me either couldn’t or wouldn’t hear me,” she wrote on her blog. “I was crying and bleeding, I couldn’t properly breathe.”. Two weeks ago she was convicted of causing “harassment, alarm and distress” and fined more than a month’s wages. The message is clear: whether or not a protest is peaceful and legal is entirely up to the police and judiciary to decide, so if you want to play it safe, stay at home and sign a petition.

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— “Where are the activists as austerity bites? They have been beaten back.” — The Guardian (via rememberwhenyoutried)
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