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Post #559253

2026-03-05 23:51 UTC

Statement from Quakers in Britain about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about the nonviolent direct action training being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"

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  • @considermycat@eldritch.cafe 2026-03-06 09:30

    Here’s the same statement from UK Quakers about the police raid on Westminster Meeting House, but on the website and with nicer formatting: https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quaker-meeting-house-raided-by-metropolitan-police-again

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  • @considermycat Historically, nobody raiding Quaker meeting houses has ever been one of the good guys. I mean this was the Met again, so it didn't need saying, but still.

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  • @skua@mastodon.social 2026-03-06 13:06

    @considermycat Missed The Onion headline: "Police say they shut down Quaker shoplifting training" No one would have been fooled - too silly by half. #UKPol

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  • @considermycat what bothers me here is that the only online news source i'm able to find this in is Catholic News. Good on them, but i would have thought it was worth a mention in the Guardian or something?

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  • @ThetaSigma@fandom.ink 2026-03-06 14:05

    @considermycat “It was at this point the Quakers thought, screw it, if we’re going to get arrested anyway, let’s start training for violent insurrection.”

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  • @IzzyOnDroid@floss.social 2026-03-06 14:54

    @considermycat Quakers training for "mass shoplifting"? Couldn't they at least come up with something … more convincing? Like, vegetarians training for mass meat consumption at a steakhouse, or something?

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  • @twobiscuits@graz.social 2026-03-07 18:08

    @considermycat It's never comfy for Quakers when there's a King Charles around! Prove me wrong!

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