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Yes, it has come to this. By a resounding vote of 299 to 116, the UK’s House of Commons on Wednesday outlawed thinking the wrong thoughts in the wrong place. According to the Catholic Herald, MPs including the Conservative government’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Attorney General Victoria Prentis rejected an amendment that would have protected “private prayer and consensual conversations within any ‘censorship’ zone.” “Censorship” zones are areas around abortion centers.
The vote comes just a day after a pro-life activist, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, was arrested for the second time in several weeks for praying silently outside one of the centers for sacrifices to Moloch. “I’m not protesting,” Vaughan-Spruce explained. “I’m not engaging in any of the activities prohibited.” But she was thinking the wrong thoughts and thus had to face what British authorities call “justice” in these dark days.
Jeremiah Igunnubole, who is legal counsel for a firm that has represented people who have been arrested for thought crimes outside of abortion centers, observed that the vote was a “watershed moment for fundamental rights and freedoms in our country.” Yes, indeed. In fact, it is a signpost of the end of freedom in Britain.
Igunnubole continued: “Parliament had an opportunity to reject the criminalisation of free thought, which is an absolute right, and embrace individual liberty for all. Instead, Parliament chose to endorse censorship and criminalise peaceful activities such as silent prayer and consensual conversation.” And of course, an extremely dangerous precedent has been set: “Today it’s abortion. Tomorrow it could be another contested matter of political debate.”
According to the Herald, the new law criminalizes “any form of ‘influence’ outside of all abortion facilities, including silent prayer.” Offenders will be fined £100 ($118) the first time they are arrested for wrongthink; if court proceedings are deemed necessary, the fines could increase to £1,000 ($1,183). Amid the debate over this measure, a Conservative MP, Andrew Lewer, injected a note of sanity: “Police shouldn’t be asking ‘What are you thinking about?’” Indeed. And what if the person praying denies the offense? The World Economic Forum has been touting brain implants, and it’s easy to see how handy they’ll be for British police: the bobbies (do they still call these sinister Orwellian figures “bobbies”?) will simply be able to consult a readout of your thoughts, and if prayer shows up, you’ll have to pony up.
Lewer continued to point out what should have been obvious to everyone and prevented even a single MP from voting for this measure: “Censorship of this sort is a notoriously slippery slope. It might not be your thoughts that are criminalised today, but I think we should all be careful not to open the door to that tomorrow about some other opinions that people may hold about something else.”
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alexreid says
It’s a good thing!! Stop a certain group thinking they’re superior to others; can do as they please; that the Laws of the Land do not apply to them; they can have Sex Slaves or, just Slaves; can rape & murder non-members of their group; ignore historical & scientific facts, etc.
Wait a moment……. what the Authorities are actually doing is endorsing the above!
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Perhaps,… it’s not a good thing.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Somehow, I think that Russia is a freer country now than most of Europe or Britain in this respect at least
S G Martin says
You should check out Belarus under dictatorship – Putin supports dictator.
gravenimage says
Infidel, Russians can be imprisoned for up to 15 years for just describing the invasion of Ukraine as a war:
“Russian Duma passes law giving 15-year prison sentences for spreading ‘false information’ about military”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-war-latest-russia-law-b2028440.html
I’m honestly not sure how this is freedom.
One can be opposed to crushing of freedom of speech in more than one country.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, I didn’t say that they are absolutely free. I just claimed that they are freer than the Brits. For instance, if one is an anti-abortion activist in Russia, one will not get jailed over it. There are more subjects that people can have freedom on beyond the right to criticize their leaders
JimJFox says
Evidence? How can concrete evidence of a person’s thoughts be produced in court? Ludicrous, it cannot be.
JimJFox says
What was I saying? Oh yeah…
The Crown Prosecution Service offered NO EVIDENCE…
Storm in a tea cup?
Jayell1 says
‘How can concrete evidence of a person’s thoughts be produced in court?’
Well, something like this actually happened a year or so ago in a UK court when a car driver sounded his horn whilst a pedestrian of different ethnicity was taking some time crossing the road in front of him. The driver was charged with ‘sounding his horn in a racist manner’. I’m not sure how they intended proving their case, which was a bit ridiculous anyway since it’s already technically an offence to use the horn except when giving ‘audible warning of approach’.
gravenimage says
Yes, Jayell–it is never a “storm in a teacup” when people are being threatened over thought crimes. Bogus laws can be enforced with bogus “evidence”.
JimJFox says
So where’s your evidence of such enforcement?
Any so-called evidence can be offered and will swiftly be dismissed.
Few people, it seems, can see the difference between evidence and mere opinion.
Hoi Polloi says
Tommy Robinson News on telegram just posted a great video, “Britain 2023.”
The lower half shows this lady silently praying, alone on a sidewalk, with police targeting her.
The upper half walks down a street blocked by muslims praying without any action by police.
Says it all.
somehistory says
Yes, anyone should be able to see how far toward submission the Brits have gone.
they should try opening a business that mozlums don’t like…hurts their little feelings, such as deli that serves only pork products…and make it a no thought zone. See how that goes.
Hoi Polloi says
And smudged korans, maybe? They’d burn the shop down and the government would never do a thing.
somehistory says
Burn it down with the owners inside, roasting and frying and the government would say they ‘have a right not to be phobiaed.’
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
John Allan says
Well, the UK is still a democracy … I think!
Assuming that to be the case, then, come the next GE, the ever-hopefuls will be seeking our vote.
And keeping their fingers crossed, that they will get it!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If a country is being run by a uniparty, is it still a Democracy? That’s what we have in Britain, Canada, Germany, Spain and quite a few other countries right now. Nobody describes Russia as a democracy, where United Russia and the CPRF have the same stance vis a vis Ukraine. Tories and Labour have the same policy on muslims, CDU and SDP have the same policy on immigration and so on. So how are all these countries in Europe democracies?
Parties like For Britain and Britain First need to break out at the expense of the Tories and any other closed border candidates from Tories, SDP or Liberals
James Lincoln says
࿗Infidel࿘ says,
“Parties like For Britain and Britain First need to break out at the expense of the Tories and any other closed border candidates from Tories, SDP or Liberals”
They had better hurry up.
The window of opportunity is quickly closing.
Keith O says
This woman missed a huge opportunity, when asked what she was doing, she should have said thinking,
Thinking about what?
Thinking about what useless bastards you cops are.
The once United Kingdom is on a one way trip to hell.
somehistory says
FOX News
“Domestic extremism bill would criminalize free speech, create ‘Ministry of Truth,’ advocacy group warns”
“A bill pushed by Washington’s attorney general would criminalize free speech and lead to an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth” under the guise of preventing domestic terrorism, according to a regional think tank.”
“The attorney general’s report singles out online disinformation, anti-government ideologies and the “general spread of extreme white supremacism” as examples of domestic violent extremism.
At the same time, the report cautions against implementing any laws that could be “disproportionately used against BIPOC” communities or other marginalized groups.
“It’s obvious that this is targeting certain groups in our society without basis,” Finne said. “Speech is not violence. Violence is violence. To equate the two is outrageous and wrong.”
They don’t have definitions for the things they are against….such as radicalization…according to the report.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/domestic-extremism-bill-would-criminalize-free-speech-create-ministry-of-truth-advocacy-group-warns/ar-
somehistory says
A related topic….
“FOX News
Twitter hearing uncovers Democrats’ chilling message to journalists
Taibbi and Shellenberger had not even uttered a word yet when the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary subcommittee Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-U.S. Virgin Islands, referred to the witnesses as “so-called journalists”
only got worse, Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-TX, asked the pair of scribes if they were being paid to testify,”
Watch the video….garcia tries to get the “source” from the journalist and pretends that she has by lying.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/twitter-hearing-uncovers-democrats-chilling-message-to-journalists/ar-AA18qfio?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=bac3591aef054edc9f346ee54ff3aba4&ei=93
Keith O says
WOW, thanks for that mate, if I hadn’t of seen it I wouldn’t have believed it.
The arrogance of those individuals is staggering.
somehistory says
TY, Keith O. And you are right…it is staggering. and sickening.
gravenimage says
‘1984’ Is Now as Britain Outlaws Thinking the Wrong Thoughts
Yes, it has come to this. By a resounding vote of 299 to 116, the UK’s House of Commons on Wednesday outlawed thinking the wrong thoughts in the wrong place
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Utterly chilling.
Raymond Griffin says
Next they will hook you to a mobile “Lie Detector” on the spot just in case your brain and tongue don’t match.