Public Order Bill: who are the real criminals here?
Clive Lewis: he wants us to know that the Public Order Bill is targeting the innocent and protecting those who should be criminalised.
Clive Lewis makes an excellent point in this Twitter thread.
He calls attention to the fact that the Public Order Bill, increasing restrictions on protest, is returning to Parliament today (March 7).
And he points out that the Bill targets the wrong people – by criminalising protesters against environmental destruction in order to protect those who are responsible for causing it.
Here he is:
1/3 Tomorrow, the Public Order Bill returns to Parliament.
As the government takes steps to introduce increasingly draconian restrictions on protest, we must ask ourselves:
Who are the real criminals here? pic.twitter.com/W0Lf3SJmn6
— Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) March 6, 2023
3/3 That’s why this legislation has to be defeated.
We must fundamentally rethink how we view criminality, because the wrong people are being targeted.
Those destroying the planet are the real criminals, and we should have no shame in saying so.
— Clive Lewis MP (@labourlewis) March 6, 2023
He’s right – right?
Maybe there’s nothing to be done about it right now – but we need to remember for the future.
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