Don't know about illegal but i've always prioritise morality over the law anyway.
In the late 90's we tolerated the espousal of the personal belief in an extreme form of islam. Many marches we protected by the police. A busy road outside a mosque was shut every friday because they were banned from praying inside.
Those exact same people that marched went on to form Isis and we've got a problem in europe that's going to take a generation.
Our own anti facist movements seemed to leave them alone rather than confront them. Which is a shame.
People protested peacefully against going to war against Iraq, Hundreds of thousands marched without violence. The UK went to war anyway on what turned out to be a lie.
On the flip side, in the early 90's the government introduced an unpopular tax. We fucking rioted, we used violence and because we rioted that tax was removed.
In the mid 30's the black shirts tried to march through the east end of london. They had the right to march, they had police protection.
The people met this march with violence and drove them back.
When confronted with fascism violence is justified because the alternative is to legitimatise as a valid political viewpoint.
The point I am trying to make is sometimes you need to have a scrap to make sure complete arse hats get nowhere near achieving their political aims.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 17 Aug 2017, 8:18,
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Well, get ready for bombs at abortion clinics.
That's the reason we have the law: morality can differ depending on who's talking.
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