Friday, 11 August 2023

Not the good news: “Police arrest 10 linked to protester fund”

This makes me uncomfortable. How wide will the net go? Feeling sensitive after rewatching The Pianist last night. A magnificent film. Of enveloping ineluctable horror. How far does this National Security Law sweep go? I thought it wasn’t meant to be retrospective.

Though to do an equivalence thing for a second: thousands are in jail in the US for protesting on January 6, 2021, even though most — by all available video evidence (of which there’s 44 thousand hours) — were not violent, were wandering the halls, at the invitation of the Capitol Police. Which is the greatest injustice?