• alykanas@slrpnk.net
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    17 hours ago

    The point being made, is the persecution of Miller, who has committed no crime, was not suspected of any crime, for attending a funeral.

    You can flap all you want - whos funeral is was is immaterial. There’s not much nuance to it.

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      16 hours ago

      He literally is suspended of a crime. Hezbollah is a proscribed terrorist group. You can’t just pop in and visit them without raising eyebrows of the police, so Miller is rightly being questioned.

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          10 hours ago

          Being involved with a proscribed terrorist group, on account of attending the funeral of their leader and putting messages of support on social media. That’s in addition to other smoking guns like being paid by Iranian state media.

          I’m not sure why you’re having difficulty understanding this. Hezbollah is a terrorist group.

          And suspected by the police. That’s who investigate crime, silly billy. Who were you expecting to be questioning him, Batman?

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            9 hours ago

            You will of course have read the article, and got the bit where it said :

            Miller was held for three and a half hours under Section 7, which deprives detained people of their right to silence and privacy despite carrying no assumed suspicion

            Can you take us through what happened cognitively, at this point ?

            Because it means the police didn’t have to suspect him of anything. And there is nothing that says this did suspect him of anything .

            We really need you to nail this bit, before we can explain the concept that “guilt by association “ is not a real thing, at least in English law.

            It’s the same legal standard that means if your mom sells crack, you aren’t automatically a crack dealer also.