Police in Sadiq Khan’s London have used the Public Order Act to prevent a rally in support of U.S. President Donald Trump outside the American embassy, despite permitting a large, ill-tempered anti-Trump rally on Friday.
Protestors attending the ‘Welcome Trump’ event had planned to gather outside the embassy and march from there to Whitehall, where they would have joined in with a separate ‘Free Tommy Robinson’ event in support of the activist and independent journalist who was recently imprisoned for contempt of court after reporting on a grooming gang trial.
But the Metropolitan Police Force, which answers to a large extent to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, used the Public Order Act to impose a raft of restrictions on both groups of protesters which made this impossible — despite allowing far larger anti-Trump protests at which at least six people were arrested to go ahead on Saturday, with demonstrators carrying signs emblazoned with harsh profanity and messages such as “Die Trump Die”.
The Police have slapped Section 12 of the Public Order Act on the pro-Trump rally at the US Embassy.
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“I was planning to go to the American embassy to meet with a group of demonstrators who are planning to welcome Trump into the country… it’s really good to see him in this country, and speaking truth to the people in power in this country,” explained David Kurten, an elected member of the London Assembly for the Brexit-supporting UK Independence Party.
“But as I came out of the police station I was handed this piece of paper by a couple of friendly police officers, who were just doing their job, but they’ve imposed Section 12 Public Order Act conditions on the assembly outside the American embassy, which means that people are not allowed to proceed or have a march or any kind of demonstration,” he claimed.
“And we’ve also been told that if I go to the American embassy in a group of three or more people that I’m liable to be arrested myself — so free speech is dead,” he concluded.
“What this is, is Sadiq Khan not wanting people to express pro-Trump values,” added Young Independence Deputy Chairman Reece Coombes.
“But as soon as probably only a few thousand of us want to protest in favour of Trump and show our support for the leader of the free world, we are banned, we are silenced, and we are censored.”
Mayor Khan actively encouraged the anti-Trump protests, and was active in the media defending his decision to authorise an “obscene” balloon caricaturing the U.S. President on grounds of freedom of speech and the right to protest.
The restrictions on the ‘Welcome Trump’ event are only the latest example of what critics have described as double standards in this area, with the Mayor having previously provided almost £2 million in funding for an “online hate crime hub” for police to tackle mean comments on the Internet, and banned fitness supplement adverts featuring attractive women from the London Underground.
TANSTAAFL.
Speech, either. Never was, never will be.
Even the localest of locales got speech fascists aplenty.
Dawgs on\in chains, staked in dirt patches littered with Sanford & Son collectibles.
“hey, pal, where ya’ from?” ~ 9:20
The English are totally worthless cucks and based upon what Trump has said to the British presstitutes, I think they have been starkly warned of the U.S. policy attitudes towards this. First, their intelligence having helped dream up this “Steele Dossier” had undoubtedly fueled Trump’s known vindictiveness, and they have been told they are about to get fucked in trade with the U.S. if they don’t get off their ass and finish this Brexit business with the E.U.
Right now the tea drinking, rotten tooth cucks over there are shitting a big pile over a “racist” tweet posted by one of their MPs concerning that filthy little raghead that runs London. They’re pissed over the references to swine, so it’s a hoot:
Amen Brother. If there are any real men left in the country they better stand up now. They are slaves and slaves have noting to lose in the long run. A gilded cage is still a cage.
Important to note Khan, the mayor of London, is a Mooslem. He’s doing a great job of ruining London; I wouldn’t visit again.
England doesn’t have a first amendment type of free speech guarantee for the people.
What you say, and anything else you do for that matter, is what the government gives you permission to say and do. In England anything not specifically permitted is prohibited. That’s what most Americans don’t understand since in America anything not specifically prohibited is permitted.