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Revealed: plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist
Observer (The Guardian) ^ | Saturday, November 4, 2023 | Jon Ungoed-Thomas and Mark Townsend

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: History; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: 1984; britain; police; tboughtcrimes; thought; thoughtpolice; uk; ukfascism

"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.

1 posted on 11/06/2023 5:56:58 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

So every mooselimb will be branded an extremist? OK, then what?


2 posted on 11/06/2023 5:58:06 PM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: linMcHlp

“anti-abortion”

Should be:

pro-abortion


3 posted on 11/06/2023 5:59:01 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

Orwell was a prophet it seems.


4 posted on 11/06/2023 5:59:15 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

Merely got the year wrong . . . or, maybe not in academic circles.


5 posted on 11/06/2023 6:01:12 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

It’s the only way to save Democracy....


6 posted on 11/06/2023 6:02:27 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Captainpaintball

So every mooselimb will be branded an extremist? OK, then what?


Nah. Anyone waving a Union Jack will be branded one.


7 posted on 11/06/2023 6:12:15 PM PST by rbg81
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To: Paladin2

“We have to have sex to SAVE the friendship!” - Seinfeld


8 posted on 11/06/2023 6:21:35 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: linMcHlp

Need a definition of “UK”.


9 posted on 11/06/2023 6:38:01 PM PST by jocon307
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To: jocon307

My definition is that the UK is two letters short of being:

“*U*K”


10 posted on 11/06/2023 6:40:09 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: linMcHlp

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

https:/


11 posted on 11/06/2023 6:45:59 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

Will Harry and Meghan be locked in the Tower of London?


12 posted on 11/06/2023 6:47:56 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: linMcHlp

They must be thinking pre-1960s and The Beatles unless you want to blame D.H. Lawrence. LOL.


13 posted on 11/06/2023 8:28:02 PM PST by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: linMcHlp
Actually, the Brits have been playing 'Whack-a-Bible' by arresting people for being Christians in the public eye

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.

CAIR Wants Schools to Consult Mosques Before Teaching Sex Ed-Non-Muslim parents, meanwhile, are treated as "terrorists" for rejecting porn in schools

14 posted on 11/07/2023 9:31:06 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde; naturalman1975

I wonder, that the Queen was lied to about the problem.


15 posted on 11/08/2023 11:27:17 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

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.


16 posted on 11/08/2023 12:14:20 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: linMcHlp

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.


17 posted on 11/08/2023 2:21:24 PM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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