Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested for silently praying outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham in Dec, 2022
Paul Joseph Watson – modernity.news Aug 16, 2024
As the crackdown on free speech accelerates, the UK government is set to ban people silently praying in their heads outside abortion clinics.
MPs voted for legislation last year that would ban silent prayer within ‘buffer zones’ 150 metres around the location of a clinic or hospital providing abortion services.
However, this has not come come into force and guidance was subsequently published allowing silent prayer within ‘safe access zones’ where activists would be able to hand out leaflets and engage in conversations with women considering abortions.
The guidance stated that, “Silent prayer, being the engagement of the mind and thought in prayer towards God, is protected as an absolute right under the Human Rights Act 1998 and should not, on its own, be considered to be an offence under any circumstances.”
The issue shot to public attention in March 2023 when campaigner Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested by police for silently praying in front of a British Pregnancy Advisory Services clinic that was subject to a ‘buffer zone’ order.
🚨BREAKING: Isabel has been arrested, AGAIN, for THINKING.
MPs vote TOMORROW on banning silent prayer near all abortion facilities in🏴&🏴
"You've said you're engaging in prayer, which is the offense."
"Silent prayer."
"You were still engaging in prayer, which is the offense." pic.twitter.com/AId3OguiXz— ADF UK (@ADF_UK) March 6, 2023
Vaughan-Spruce’s arrest drew international condemnation and was denounced by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.
West Midlands Police later released her without charge and were forced to issue an apology after Vaughan-Spruce complained that she had been arrested for a “thought crime”.
However, such rights are set to be trampled completely as the new Labour government pushes to scrap the guidance and completely outlaw silent protest near abortion clinics, effectively criminalizing anyone who stands outside one and engages in ‘wrongthink’.
The Telegraph reports, “That ministers will now be reviewing this guidance. Pro-choice campaigners hope the review will result in both silent prayer and the handing out of leaflets being limited.”
"Home Office 'considering banning silent prayer outside abortion clinics'"
Free speech is under threat in Labour Britain, and so too, it seems, is free non-speech. https://t.co/jVHuEXuOii
— David Frost (@DavidGHFrost) August 16, 2024
Dame Diana Johnson, the new policing minister, stated, “We specifically voted against proposals to allow silent prayer and consensual communication in safe access zones.”
“I notice that the Home Office has produced guidance which includes those measures being allowed.”
“I just wondered why you would do that when Parliament had been very clear that that was not the will of Parliament,” she added.
As we document in the video below, Brits are now being arrested and imprisoned for posts on social media which contain “anti-establishment rhetoric” as the purge intensifies following the recent anti-mass migration riots.
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Attitude to Abortion is THE litmus test.
To oppose abortion is the ultimate genuinely egalitarian moral stand, because it is fighting for the lives of all Innocents, black (proportionately the highest percentage of unborn victims) whites , oriental etc.
Harris/Walz are the most extreme pro-abortion electoral candidates in US History and their coronation by mainstream MSM points up the Death-centred collective psychosis of the Left.
We desperately need an equivalent to these in every Western Nation –
https://studentsforlife.org/
People should not reject G B News because some- probably Leftist – nugget replaced the word ‘white’ with ‘black’ in the subtitles on one occasion.
I renewed my membership with th Free Seech Union yesterday because of this article.
Any of us speaking our minds may need someone to defend us in court at anytime now :-
https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/uk-labour-free-speech-britain-targeted-social-media-tony-young?__vfz=medium%3Demail_notification#vf-1cee81db-3b32-4e24-9dcc-6aedb117da53
Free Speech Union!
Bollix!
You do know that every Muslim prayer ends with a call to death for unbelievers that is one million arrests in Britain
There is no prayer in the churches, either; they read out a prepared statement which any real God will have got bored with ages ago as being mechanical, with no feeling in it
John O’ Looney getting it right again over “Monkey-pox, my arse”.
https://old.bitchute.com/video/rGmQbzG3q5qq/ (2m 16s)
Funny how this has all changed. Yesterday when watching a video the lady was being harassed by a woman armed government agent that rarely shut her mouth. Today it is two men.
Another sham………….
We are not walking into a communist surveillance state – we have already embraced it – Lord Kulveer Ranger
Opinion by Lord Kulveer
The recent protests and riots and the usage of facial recognition in identifying criminal behaviour by the police, the question has dawned in some people’s minds, have we become a big brother communist society?
However, I would also suggest that the question is really, how much of our privacy have we given away and how much more will we give?This is because facial recognition is a small link in the chain that leads to a big brother communist world where the state is not only watching you, deciding whether you are doing right or wrong but also learning everything about you.
Look at your phone, did it open? How many of us easily accepted the move from entering the passcode to accepting the oh-so-easy facial recognition function that not only opens our phone but enables us to easily access various apps and social media accounts, make payments and even allows us into our bank accounts, all without having to remember those pesky passwords and PIN codes.
Yes, use my face, please! It’s simple and easy, and obviously it is totally secure. So what is the downside? Well, our face is being logged each time we use it. A digital file of information about each one of us is building up in huge data warehouses and in what the industry calls data lakes, what you buy at supermarkets, where you go to is logged on motorway cameras, and what you spend and earn is on your bank statements and NHS file, couple to your police record
An ocean of information that even bigger and more powerful computers are capable of ‘mining’ which then enables them to draw conclusions about what we might like to watch, read, eat, buy and so on, and that is just for starters, communism is here today in the UK
For it is this combination of vast amounts of personal data, aided and abetted by the latest super computing power that is at the heart of what is becoming the AI generation.
Artificial intelligence is the name for the technology that can make decisions for us, based on knowing what we like, what we do, where we go and what services we access – especially when we use, or allow facial recognition to identify us.
So the real question becomes, who knows what we are doing when facial recognition is used? Who captures and records that data? What do they do with it?
Private sector businesses as yet aren’t at a scale where they can link all the information about us together. Maybe big firms like Apple, Google and Amazon if they continue to embed their services deep into our daily lives may get there but these businesses require us to make a conscious decision to use them. But can the communist state be trusted ? not on your nelly
The genocide happening in palestine, will soon be used in the UK, thats what the riots were about
Just say NO to Communism
” you will own nothing and be happy ”
pure 100% communism
Praying anywhere will soon be an offence. You could be praying in the privacy of a hotel room, and if one of the hotel staff caught a glimpse perchance, and reported it, the police will cart you off. What it needs is every churchgoer in the UK, should plan a rally to Westminster, and pray outside there all day! But we all know that their so called Christian principles will never be put to that kind of test, and they’ll stick with the easy route that is their usual Sunday service.
Naaaaw, this isn’t demonic..
Imagine you live in a holographic matrix, and thoughts are real things that organize energy, become thought forms, create your reality.
The Jew run government has a demonic agenda to kill your children, they do not want any “psychic pressure” going against their agenda.
Thus the demon Jew does not want you praying outside a baby death clinic.
Remember this, next time you Brits wanna critterize us. Arrested TWICE for silently praying! Jailing people for peaceful protesting – prison sentences! Just GO with it – retro-active abortions and assisted suicide for those enforcing laws that don’t exist – embrace the suck!
Coming soon (sic), mis-demeanor cursing makes a comeback, but tickets and fines will be automatic, so enhance your calm now.
“Harassing The Harmless”…
it’s “All In A Day’s Work” for GOON UK
Indeed, abortion is a Litmus test: Those against abortion are the children of God, those in favor are the children of Satan. NO EXCEPTIONS! You can tell a lot about a person, especially a woman, by their stance towards abortion.
The usual regime nonsense…banning ‘silent prayer’… yes that’s right.. they must have big ears..
No doubt the convo would run thus..
Cuntstubble Scratching and special Cuntstubble Waddle: ‘ello ‘ello..what’s all this then?..what do we ‘ave ‘ere…
Silent Prayer for the spirits of of murdered infants outside the organ harvesting centre: Why good evening officer, how my I help?..
CS: Are you prayin’ silently there you racist antisemitic islamaphobe… fer dead nippers murdered by the statist regime using tax payers cash…
SPftspomiotohs: No I’ve lost my car keys…care to help me find them…
CS: fuck off fascist, what do you think I am a public servant?…
Why did she bother to tell them she was praying? Winston Smith wrote in a corner where the telescreen could not see
Two young white men, thug of course in .gov uniform as they confront lone white woman accused of praying in her mind.
Just how does one deduce there now Sherlock as someone is praying in their mind…?
You just took that wrong side of that footie team you sas bastard as that Prove were really yer friend…
Ooh-ah, finish that to coin a phrase stupid brutish sodjer…
For Queen and cuntry you tellz me as where is that empire now oh those captainz and their kingz…?
Where, who or what is this ‘establishment’? This article tells us that being anti-establishment is a crime for which people are arrested and imprisoned.
But is there a law on the statute books that says writing ‘anti-establishment’ things is a crime? Well, no, there cannot be: Statutory law is made by parliament. We would have heard of it, therefore.
Oh, come on! Paul Joseph Watson is twaddle-talking here.
Awaiting moderation…
Just fuck off as you continue to spew nonsense for yer sheckel…
Just fuck off and fuck yer wittle fake wall those Roman destroyed brick for fuckin brick…
Not that kjames version of course…
I suppose that the Prosecution expects to produce witnesses who can testify that they heard the defendant praying silently. Or perhaps read their mind. The law is an ass!
This looks eerily like the video of the same woman being dressed down back in 2022. Naaaaaa,,, couldn’t be…….
See here! These rights that the so-called and self-styled Brutish government keeps infringing and denying are self-evident and inalienable, correct.
That’s a serious crime against humanity!
America needs to send in the Marines to extract these pommy terrorists and charge, try, convict. and hang them all!
Isn’t that basically what was done to Tojo, Sadam, and many others?
Kier Stalin should be given the “Full Gadaffi” treatment, which Gadaffi did not deserve, but this malevolent shirt-lifting poof certainly does!
Historical precedent?
Well, friends, look at all the time, lives, money and credibility the USA poured right down the rat hole “making the world safe for democracy!”
All that was a wash, as democracy is no worth one broken old pencil used to write the word on a scrap of paper, but inalienable rights actually are worth enforcing and defending, something that the Founders of America should have recognized and pursued back in the Mother Country, since look what that would have prevented — all of which has come back ro ruin the US of A!
How do those cops look in the mirror?
Next up, UK Government Set to Ban Silent Prayer Anywhere and Everywhere, Especially in Your Own Heads in the (Former) Privacy of Your (Former) Homes…which you will have to vacate, both your homes and your heads, to make way for the ongoing Orc invasion of backwards mongrel dune-coons, degenerate street-shitters, and worse-than-worthless niggers.
jailed for free speach ? NO ! you will be fined
enriching the oppressor regime + making you poorer .
they have not so much prisonspace even releasing criminals .
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