Posted on 09/30/2014 4:54:21 PM PDT by markomalley
Britain's interior minister on Tuesday proposed new powers to bar people with extremist views from appearing on television or publishing on social media, even if they are not breaking any laws.
Home Secretary Theresa May told a conference of the governing Conservatives that if re-elected next year, the party will introduce civil powers to disrupt people who "spread poisonous hatred" even within the law.
Under the proposal, police could apply for a court order to disrupt "harmful activity" by restricting an individual's movements, preventing them from speaking in public or stopping them publishing articles online.
May said that only a minority of extremists are violent, but "the damage that extremists cause to our society is reason enough to act."
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Morons. Someday your political opposition is going to use those same rules against you.
E X A C T L Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hence my consternation over the Hobby Lobby and numerous SCOTUS rulings that, on first blush, appear to be “good” rulings.
Be assured ... it is a GUARANTEE that it will all come back to bite us.
Chilling. Personally, when I’m playing cat and mouse, and I’m the mouse, I prefer my cats belled.
Tried against the IRA, didn’t really work tbh.
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