User:SciberDoc

I am a scientist. I teach Science, Mathematics, Statistics and English.

Equally for everyone:

I oppose Genocide, all Violence and Crimes Against Humanity, and all such crimes and breaches of human dignity and rights, and complicity in them – equally for everyone.

I support Lovingkindness, Justice, Fairness, Mercy and Peace: loving others as you love yourself — principles held dear in the Abrahamic faiths, Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and the similar principles which are common among people of other faiths or none.

Sadaqah / Tzedakah / fairness, justice, charity, righteousness

Loving Kindness, Mercy, Hesed, Ramat

— Islam, Judaism and Christianity share these teachings.

Obligation to prevent genocide and protect arise at the instant of a serious risk — International Court of Justice^*

States have international legal obligations to prevent these crimes and complicity in them.

Prevention means acting beforehand and continuing to act until there is no longer any serious risk. It will be too late for prevention by the time there are legal judgements that genocide has been occurring and perpetrators can be prosecuted.

Should individuals act as best they can to intervene when anyone is at risk of violence? Perhaps even more so when states fail in their obligations?

Equally for everyone:

If you could have done anything⁺ to prevent or hinder – The Holocaust — Should you?

Maybe you could have stopped production of Zyklon B? Should you have?⁺

The 7/7 and 9/11 terrorist attacks? — Genocides and atrocities in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Sudan ... ? — The slaughter, maiming and atrocities against children and adults on 7th October and afterwards?

The continuing, slaughter, starvation, displacement, destruction and genocide in Gaza?

What could you do now?⁺ — Should you?

When?

Before it's too late?

⁺ without yourself committing genocide, war crimes or terrorism or injuring others.

^* "A State's obligation to prevent, and the corresponding duty to protect, arise at the instant that the State learns of, or should normally have learned of, the existence of a serious risk genocide will be committed. From that moment onwards, if the State has available means likely to have a deterrent effect on those suspected of preparing genocide, or reasonably suspected of harbouring specific intent (dolus specialis), it is under a duty to make such use of these means as the circumstances permit." — International Court of Justice

This ruling by the International Court of Justice is on genocide, but it may be expected that it is a principle to be upheld for states' obligations for all other such serious crimes.

I frequently and legally protest the proscription of PA and I support action for judicial review of proscription to overturn it and legal action to deproscribe it. I provide short accurate summaries of the Terrorist Act 2000, especially for the offences most likely to be unwittingly broken. I disagree with the arrest of peaceful protesters holding cardboard signs at these protests, (and I know that many police officers who carry out the arrests also disagree). I object to the arrests at the protests; as I can't stop them, I encourage the politest, gentlest policing as they follow orders to arrest protesters. The arrests draw attention to the protests in a way my legal protests can't but because my own protests are legal I can protest frequently and have different opportunities at the protests, including monitoring police behaviour and staying after the arrested protesters have left.

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Boring Legal matters: I am not a member of any terrorist group and never have been a member, nor taken part in, nor advocated terrorism nor invited support for a terrorist group. I am not expressing an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, and I am carefully avoiding any likelihood (so I am not being reckless) that any person to whom the expression is directed will be encouraged to support a proscribed organisation.