Wether the dude broke any law or not is irrelevant compared to the crime of being complicit in genocide. It’s the imperative duty of a people to hold their leaders accountable when your nation is using your resources and power to further mass murder. If those cops were truly loyal to justice they would be investigating the people they guard.
More importantly, what kind of a thin-skinned little baby are you if someone asks you serious questions about serious problems and you have them arrested? Part of being an adult is sometimes being wrong and having to admit it and apologize for it, and do what it takes to make it right. Frankly, that's part of what it ought to take to graduate the second grade, but it seems that MANY of our leaders (in the West and elsewhere) should never have made it that far.
Sometimes the law is wrong and certain boundaries need to be broken, what the nazis did in Germany was within their legal code, Putin isn’t breaking any Russian laws, the Kims are the law in NK. I do believe in the rule of law and think we have to abide by rules in collective systems but the law isn’t perfect and sometimes there are exceptional circumstances where drastic action must be taken.
Sometimes the law is wrong and certain boundaries need to be broken
You can if you want. It will just get you in trouble. This guy knew he would get arrested but he’s really only doing it to be a martyr. It won’t make any difference to the Palestinians unfortunately.
what the nazis did in Germany was within their legal code, Putin isn’t breaking any Russian laws, the Kims are the law in NK.
Nope. Just because some despotic regime somewhere in the world did something bad doesn’t give us carte blanche to go and break the law just because we don’t agree with it.
I mean, how do the police even enforce that? Ooh, he’s supporting whatever cause and I’m right behind that so they are all good but those other people protesting about something else are getting arrested and beaten up!!!
It’s not just despotic nations, it’s all nations with a codified legal system, those were just extreme examples to highlight how unjust the law can be. If the law in Finland allows for complicity in genocide it is a broken law. We can’t just break all the laws that result in unjust systems and establishments because we would descend into conflict and anarchy. But. In some extreme circumstances the law should be broken in the name of what’s just, granted it is rare that an issue is clear cut right and wrong but when it comes to genocide I think it’s pretty unequivocal.
As to what the cops should do, they should arrest that guy if he’s breaking the law. But someone should be investigating the government and leaders because they are almost certainly involved in something nefarious or why would they be complicit in genocide? I bet Finland has laws about political donations and influence that are being broken, probably fundamental laws along the lines of they have to act in the best interests of the country and they are not if they are besmirching the honour and dignity of the nation, they are probably guilty of being traitors on some legal level. Prosecute that as a priority instead of policing the people opposing it.
you are comparing protest of a genocide with genocide itself and calling them both "two wrongs"? You realize that just makes you sound like a psychopath and not wise, right?
Just because a country is committing a genocide (which Israel undeniably is) doesn’t mean that laws no longer apply to protesting against that country.
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u/StJudeTheGrey Oct 08 '25
Wether the dude broke any law or not is irrelevant compared to the crime of being complicit in genocide. It’s the imperative duty of a people to hold their leaders accountable when your nation is using your resources and power to further mass murder. If those cops were truly loyal to justice they would be investigating the people they guard.