(not satire – it’s the UK today)
I’ve written before about how woeful the state of civil liberties is in the UK.
This simple chart also illustrates how bad it’s got:
And now we see a member of the public is facing jail time for calling a Tory MP a coward:
Brighton man faces jail for calling Hove MP Mike Weatherley ‘coward’
And this is what happens when try to photograph or video a police officer in the UK:
Arrested for filming police officers – video
As opposed to when you try to do it in Sweden:
What happens When You Try To Film The Police Is Sweden
I rest my case.
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So on demonstrations the police will allow us to shout ‘I say old chap you appear to lack a certain degree of moral courage’. Until next week of course when that will be ruled to be ‘using threatening/abusive/insulting words/behaviour to cause harassment/alarm/distress’.
Every time Danny Alexander speaks it results in me suffering both alarm and distress. Do I need to contact the police and have this criminal arrested?
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An activist has her appeal turned down for a public order conviction she shouted that Cameron had blood on his hands.The judge said that she had “hugely insulted Cameron the police said she had an angry expression on her face. Remember Russia and the Pussy riot.
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Just take a leaf out of Ma Brown’s book and shout, “YOU’RE NICE!
Bit of a paraphrase but hopefully you get the jist of it
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@Tom is there such a crime as ‘contributory negligence’ which is someone being in the wrong place at wrong time and therefore contributing to the crime..also can you be arrested for ”wasting police time’? …..are we in “not the nine o clock news” sketch zone now? ” looking at me in a funny sort of way..”
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Tom not so long ago there was a campaign about the privatisation of public spaces wherby you could be arrested for eating sandwiches on a park bench because you didnt know that the space you were in was owned by private company…
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Click to access Privatepublicspace.pdf
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another item here on spaces..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/12/landowner-strikers-picketing-salford-university
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Union members at Salford University were prevented from picketing during a strike because the university leases one of its buildings from a private landowner, it has emerged.
Strikers planning to picket were ordered away from the university’s facilities at the MediaCityUK complex by private security guards.
Martyn Moss, north-west regional official for the University and College Union, which represents college lecturers, said: “Security guards moved our pickets off the public space around the building on the basis that they were trespassing. “Technically, if it’s private property, the law on picketing says that you have to be on the boundary. But that’s one building on a complex with a lot of open space between the buildings, so there’s nowhere to genuinely picket.”
The strikers, who were taking part in the wider day of action over public sector pensions last November, were moved to a tram stop separated from the building they were picketing by tramlines, Moss said.
The action has reinforced concerns that the privatisation of open space is shrinking the area available for protest.
“The right to picket is a fundamental human right in lawful industrial action,” the union organiser said. The university’s facilities at MediaCityUK are used to teach more than 30 undergraduate and postgraduate courses in media skills, and cater for up to 1,500 students.
The complex is run by the Peel Group, a property firm with extensive interests in Britain including 14 shopping centres and four airports.
A spokesman for Salford University referred enquiries to the landowner. He said: “You would have to speak to Peel Holdings, who own the land around our building. The people who did the moving on weren’t our staff. They were Peel security. Our responsibility ends at the door of our building.”
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shouldent this mp be proscuted for giveing a false statement.
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@nuggy yeah bloody MPs get everywherewho do they think they are anyway?
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Without wishing to disagree with your graphic, it is not entire accurate. In the EU a person can be arrested , imprisoned and held for six months (extendible) without trial, bail or the right to know or challenge the evidence (if there is any). The European Arrest Warrant, championed in the European Parliament by the UK Lib Dem Graham Watson, is the legal mechanism for this sorry state of affairs.
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Perhaps we should call them a worcad instead, because they are acting like cads by going to wor on anyone that calls them names.
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