If anyone is struggling to understand how our media and politicians are still talking about an RAF Fairford "bomb plot" when there were no bombs found, then the Forest Gate raid in 2006 is a useful comparison en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_...
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![The nature of Palestine Action
160. The first factor to be considered in favour of proscription is the nature of Palestine Action. As we have explained above, Palestine Action is not a transparent non-violent direct action protest group as it claims (see [149]-[150] above). It is a covert organisation that has revealed little about itself in these proceedings. The Underground Manual reveals that its activities are carried out by unidentifiable cells, whose objective is to avoid detection.
161. The essential characteristics of Palestine Action are, in fact, the antithesis of the kind of civil disobedience protest group explained in Jones and Cuadrilla at [145]-[146] above. First, Palestine Action’s activities are planned and undertaken secretly with the objective of avoiding detection (see, for example, the Underground Manual at Annex A advocating creating cells to take “actions without detection as part of Palestine Action Underground”, and explaining “how to get to the site and leave undetected”). Secondly,
the members of Palestine Action do not vouch their sincerity by accepting the penalties
imposed by the law. Thirdly, on a fair analysis, Palestine Action has little or nothing in common with the suffragettes or the anti-apartheid or Iran War protest groups (see
[149]-[150] above).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hq6pdcgb7lcinerqnnkno6gn/bafkreia6p7dkbzk3yy6vjgqo7a6yduttgxdneaul7yzpjcdl65v32fshom)
