The New Dark Age

Thursday, 18 September 2025 — A Different Narrative

“Right to Protest” have issued a renewed warning about the Defend Our Juries (DOJ) Lift the Ban campaign. I’m posting it in full because, while it’s not my campaign, I share their concerns. My position on this is not a popular one. But if my posts on this topic prevent even one person from having their life ruined by a needless arrest, it will have been worth it. I have to try! Please read in full – it is extremely important!

My own full deep-dive into the organisations behind DOJ is coming soon.

🚨 URGENT: WARNING about Defend Our Juries “Lift the Ban” campaign 🚨

📢 Today Right to Protest wrote to Tim Crosland.

Did you know Tim Crosland, co-founder of Defend Our Juries, is not just any “activist”? He is a former senior government lawyer who spent over a decade inside the security state. He was:

⚠️❗ Head of Cyber, Prevention & Information Law – National Crime Agency (NCA)

⚠️❗ Head of Legal – National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS)

⚠️❗ Deputy Director – Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)

⚠️❗ Advising on intelligence operations

Prior to this, he used to work in criminal law so he must know that this campaign can be used to destroy lives. 🚨

Tim Crosland was involved in both Extinction Rebellion (XR) and Just Stop Oil (JSO).

Both campaigns used the same formula every time — both resulted in the most repressive protest laws in British history.

1️⃣ Urge mass arrests

2️⃣ Make people pledge, commit or register for actions & hand over their personal details

3️⃣ Promise to “flood the system” with arrests so the state will have to give in to protestors’ demands

4️⃣ ❌ Result: the state doesn’t give in — instead, the government passes harsher laws against protest — suppressing our protest rights

This was the exact formula promised with Extinction Rebellion (XR).

The result? The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, massively extending police powers over restricting protest. It includes:

🔊 New public order noise trigger – breach = 51 weeks in prison (before: 3 months)

🏛️ Parliament obstruction – 51 weeks in prison (before: fine only)

🛣️ Highway obstruction – 6 months in prison (before: fine only)

⚖️ New statutory Public Nuisance offence – 10 years in prison

🚶 New powers to police static protests and even one-person protests

Amnesty called it “deeply authoritarian” and a “dark day for civil liberties.”

Tim Crosland was XR’s UK coordinator, legal advisor and spokesperson.

Then came Just Stop Oil (JSO). Same founder. Same formula. Same promises. Tim Crosland involved once again.

The result? The Public Order Act 2023 – making new offences criminalising traditional acts of British protest, the removal of legal defences, and the longest prison sentences for peaceful protest in history:

🔗 Locking on – 6 months in prison

⛏️ Tunnelling – 3 years in prison

🚧 Obstructing major works – 6 months in prison

⚡ Interfering with infrastructure – 12 months in prison

🧰 Going equipped with protest gear – up to 6 months in prison

🔎 Suspicion-less stop & search at protests – police don’t need a reason; obstructing = 1 month in prison

📜 SDPOs – new protest banning orders; breach = 6 months in prison

The UN condemned these powers that “target peaceful protests” and asked the UK government to “repeal these laws” .

Now: DoJ “Lift the Ban”. Tim Crosland’s DoJ is using the same formula again:

1️⃣ Urge mass participation

2️⃣ Make people commit to action, handing over their personal details

3️⃣ Promise to “flood the system” with arrests so the state will have to de-proscribe Palestine Action

4️⃣ ❌ Result: not merely mass arrests but terrorism convictions under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act

🚨 Section 13 is a strict liability offence, meaning THERE IS NO DEFENCE. Holding a DoJ sign in public view = terrorism conviction. (Supreme court ruling: Pwr v DPP )

🚨 Terrorism convictions have life-destroying consequences, including:

– Permanent criminal record – flagged on DBS checks, blocking jobs or getting you sacked

– Regulatory bodies can suspend or strike professionals off their registers

– Travel bans – refused entry to the US, Australia, Japan, and from 2026 barred from the EU under ETIAS

– Universities can deny entry to courses for students with terrorism convictions

– 🛑 Risk of losing your citizenship without notice under the Nationality & Borders Act 2022 if you have a parent born abroad

👉 Exactly what the government wanted: pro-Palestinian 🇵🇸 activists deterred, silenced, controlled, and taken off the streets.

And now DoJ has escalated. They have launched a window poster campaign — urging people to display posters in their homes 🪟.

⚠️ This action has already led to a terrorism arrest in Scotland — which DoJ have NOT mentioned on their website. Under s.13 it doesn’t matter if DoJ told you it was “lawful” — that is no defence in court.

⚠️🚨 This is not protest. This is a conveyor belt of pro-Palestinian activists into serious terrorism convictions, with draconian consequences — deterring people from ever protesting for Palestine 🇵🇸 again. Exactly what the government wants.

❌ Tim Crosland and DoJ are not defending your rights. They are pushing vulnerable people into the jaws of the Terrorism Act — and calling it resistance.

👉 Read the full letter. Make your own mind up. See for yourself — before risking your liberties.

👉 Letter here: https://tinyurl.com/mryn3c8v

Protesting against the genocide in Gaza is imperative. But not in a way that destroys lives, makes protest laws even worse and blocks protestors from attending future protests.

Right to Protest Ltd