Posted on 11/06/2023 5:56:58 PM PST by linMcHlp
“Expanding the definition so far beyond the current guidance risks further discouraging individuals and groups from legitimately exercising their right to free speech, while allowing the government to crack down on community groups, charities or faith groups they disagree with.”
Martin Bright, editor-at-large, Index on Censorship, added: “This is an unwarranted attack on freedom of expression and would potentially criminalise every student radical and revolutionary dissident. It has never been the British way to arrest people for thought crime.”
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"It has never been the British way to arrest people for thought crime."
Actually, the Brits have been playing 'Whack-a-Bible' by arresting people for being Christians in the public eye while opposing the anti-abortion snd sexually-perverted "values" of the Progressive Revolutionary New World Orders.
So every mooselimb will be branded an extremist? OK, then what?
“anti-abortion”
Should be:
pro-abortion
Orwell was a prophet it seems.
Merely got the year wrong . . . or, maybe not in academic circles.
It’s the only way to save Democracy....
So every mooselimb will be branded an extremist? OK, then what?
“We have to have sex to SAVE the friendship!” - Seinfeld
Need a definition of “UK”.
My definition is that the UK is two letters short of being:
“*U*K”
Long ago, historian Flavius Josephus referred to the problem as “the madness of those that were for innovations.”
The quote is from “War of the Jews” Book 7, Chapter 1, Section 1
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Will Harry and Meghan be locked in the Tower of London?
They must be thinking pre-1960s and The Beatles unless you want to blame D.H. Lawrence. LOL.
I witnessed a police officer warning a couple of Bible students to stop reading passages out loud to one another on a subway train in London—almost 25 years ago. Shocked me at the time; but we've long since imported this intolerance in deference to the LGBTQ++++ crowd.
Things will get interesting now that murdering islamists are the top dogs for politically correct coddling.
I wonder, that the Queen was lied to about the problem.
The Royals are figureheads. They are the UK’s top diplomats, but they don’t get to “rule” or make laws, and their influence over the UK government is limited.
It’s normal in nu-Britain, but a few decades ago these kinds of infringements wouldn’t have been tolerated, so it hasn’t “ALWAYS” been normal to arrest people for expressing inconvenient opinions.
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