I am sympathetic to earth too.
Just hear me out, in real life, automated space colonies and mines would be great. It would accelerate space colonization when costs and risks go down. Furthermore, legally speaking, Earth is well within its rights to bring back workers. At the moment, the colony is literally the furthest frontier, invested in heavily by the nations to secure key mineral upon which the entire economies hinge. Ofcourse commandeering such a base would be seen as national threat.
So among more controversial things, commandeering an international base does qualify as an act of Terrorism. And no matter how much you disagree with an individual, targeting them personally is a crime- Dev Ayesa is a victim of Mob Lynching. Yet, unfortunately, targeting the domes in the manner Dev Ayesa did, does not constitute a warcrime. According to international law, those deaths are termed collateral. Legally, it would only qualify as warcrime if Palmer (who I assume to be the commanding officer over-reliant on Dev) had not done the due diligence to prevent any deaths, which as we saw, he did try his best. Assuming that since Palmer was involved, the M-7 was technically in the loop.
The only thing I can concede to the Mars movement is the corruption of police. The entire force must be investigated for extrajudicial killings, corruptions and collusion. And I also recognize the core problem of unemployment with automation, yet do not believe it justified commandeering the base.
I think deploying 90% automation on the base out of nowhere was a stupid idea that would never have worked anyway. It has the investor bullshit written all over it- remember that we have barely seen any lick of distinct automation/robots until now. Today we know that losing your industrial knowledge overnight by replacing your workers or offshoring is one of the stupidest things one can do as a nation.>!​!<