British Woman Arrested For Silently Praying Near Abortion Clinic

Via ZeroHedge

Americans tend to believe that freedom of speech is a value represented across all of western culture from the US to Europe to Australia and beyond.  However, this is simply not the case.  While there have been numerous attempts to degrade the 1st Amendment in America, being arrested outright by police for your thoughts alone is not a low we have sunk to yet.  In the UK and through most of Europe it’s a different story.

UK laws designed to prevent the obstruction of businesses have opened the door to policies called Public Space Protection Orders, which create a “buffer zone” around certain areas or buildings and prohibit activities that, in the words of UK authorities, foster “anti-social behavior.”  Yes, this is as Orwellian as one could imagine, but it gets even worse.

In October, a PSPO was declared around an abortion facility in Bournemouth, U.K. A picture of a sign, obtained by ChristianConcern.com, outlined where a number of activities were banned. Among them were “prayer or counseling” as well as “holding vigils where members audibly pray, recite scripture, genuflect, sprinkle holy water on the ground or cross themselves if they perceive a service-users is passing by.”  These activities do not obstruct the operations of the clinic in question, but they do make pro-abortion advocates angry.

In other words, the neighborhoods around abortion clinics are now consecrated ground where even private thoughts against the establishment’s practices are illegal.  If the simple presence of Christians near the building makes people uncomfortable, then they have broken the law and can be arrested.  It sounds ridiculous, but here is the proof:

A pro-life woman was arrested earlier this month for silently praying outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham, U.K. on the grounds that she had breached a speech buffer zone established by the local city council.  Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was subsequently charged with four counts of failing to comply with a Public Space Protection Order.

The greater threat inherent in these kinds of laws is that they can be broadly interpreted and are often broadly applied over time.  A PSPO might apply to one building this year, and next year it could apply to an entire city, or the entire country.  Once a government is given the power to arbitrate “anti-social behavior” and punish citizens for something as subjective ideas that offend other citizens, that society is now on the fast track to full blown tyranny.  The government is no longer a protector of rights and is now an oppressor of liberties.

It would appear that the UK, in legal terms, is utterly lost.  

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18 Comments
Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
  Anonymous
December 24, 2022 11:15 am

Baal and Moloch are both tickled and are sure the Murkin court-system will rule for “religious freedom”.

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
December 24, 2022 11:20 am

the iiiiis are all captured governments by a supra-national force or entity. The remainder of the governments of the world are also captured as evidenced by the on-going Pestilence: medical and legal “martial” laws enacted and operational in them.

The abortion thought crime is just a feature of being under the Crown’s occupation government authority. It sucks to be a subject and how it turns one into an object; funny that.

BL
BL
December 24, 2022 11:24 am

The UK has gone full retard, what’s next , jail time for failing to say a few Hail Satans?

B.S. in V.C.
B.S. in V.C.
December 24, 2022 12:06 pm

The end game is the outlawing of religion, Communism.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  B.S. in V.C.
December 24, 2022 3:52 pm

No sir, the end of Christian organized religion to be sure, but not all religion.
The state will merge with the new One World Religion (presently under construction).

flash
flash
December 24, 2022 12:22 pm

The English have always been a race of rotten toothed fags, easily controlled by butt sex and usury.

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
  flash
December 24, 2022 12:31 pm

This is Karma’s way of paying them back for the British Empire and its ravenous appetite for conquest and booty.

BL
BL
  Aunt Acid
December 24, 2022 12:33 pm

Karma’s a bitch, but we are no angels.

flash
flash
  Aunt Acid
December 24, 2022 1:15 pm

And, the destruction of the unified Christian church along with the perpetual debt plague that we all suffer under. A pox on them all.

Philip II: (1527-1598)
William Thomas Walsh

“It did not occur to the kings that if the money-lenders ever got
power enough, if they ever got from under the public-spirited
repression of the Church, they would destroy their own masters.
Kings were not generally as far-sighted as money-changers, and
much less so than priests. This is not to deny that clerics sometimes
condoned usury and profited by it, or that some kings repressed it.
Human affairs are never so simple as that. But there was a line of
cleavage: the Church on one side hostile to usury, the kings
compelled to make use of it on the other.

As the moral influence of the Church was weakened in the
political and economic spheres, in consequence of a series of
calamities for which she was not to blame—the Black Death, the
papal exile at Avignon, the Great Schism, the return of paganism
with the Renaissance—usury began to accumulate wealth and to
organize its influence. With canny insight it threw its influence, by
and large, against the power of Church and State, supporting now
one, now the other, until, by a see-saw process, it succeeded in
weakening both.

It early identified itself with the forces of heresy in religion and
liberalism in politics, until Protestantism at last gave money-lending a certificate of respectability, until a Lord Bacon could write a serious defense of it, and Harrison (in Holinshed) must chronicle the capitulation of the new Protestant England to “usury, a trade brought in by the Jews, but now perfectly practised almost by every
Christian, and so commonly that he is accompted but for a fool that
doth lend his money for nothing.”5 ”

https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=1889B28539B7506D637C3D5605BFD2A0

flash
flash
  flash
December 24, 2022 1:17 pm

“Most of England’s appalling troubles today are due to a bad guess: she went into the war on the wrong side in 1914. The theory of her statesmen, in those days, was that, by joining France and Russia, she would give a death-blow to a dangerous rival, Germany, and so be free to run the world. But the scheme failed to work; moreover, it had unexpected and almost fatal results. Not only did Germany come out of the mess a dangerous rival still; France also became a rival, and a very formidable one. Worse, the United States was pumped up to immense proportions, and began to challenge England’s control of the world’s markets. The results are now visible: England has three competitors instead of one, and is steadily going downhill. If she had gone into the war on the German side she’d be in a much better situation today. The Germans would be grateful for the help and willing to pay for it (while the French are not); the French would be down and out, and hence unable to menace the peace of Europe; Germany would have Russia in Europe and there would be no Bolshevik [communist] nuisance; England would have all of Siberia and Central Asia, and there would be no Japanese threat and no Indian revolt; and the United States would still be a docile British colony, as it was in 1914. . . .
The United States made a similar mistake in 1917. Our real interests at the time were on the side of the Germans, whose general attitude of mind is far more American than that of any other people. If we had gone in on their side, England would be moribund today, and the dreadful job of pulling her down, which will now take us forty or fifty years, would be over. We’d have a free hand in the Pacific, and Germany would be running the whole [European] Continent like a house of correction. In return for our connivance there she’d be glad to give us whatever we wanted elsewhere. There would be no Bolshevism [communism] in Russia and no Fascism in Italy. Our debtors would all be able to pay us. The Japs would be docile, and we’d be reorganizing Canada and probably also Australia. But we succumbed to a college professor [Wilson] who read Matthew Arnold, just as the English succumbed to a gay old dog who couldn’t bear to think of Prussian MP’s shutting down the Paris night-clubs.
As for the mistake the Russians made, I leave it to history.”
– H.L. Mencken (Baltimore Evening Sun, Nov. 11, 1931, “A Bad Guess”

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  flash
December 25, 2022 11:54 am

‘Tis funny that both England and the US are run by the same ZOG … in England’s case, for centuries … 

flash
flash
December 24, 2022 12:33 pm

For Stuck and other unbelievers…Santa can do stuff you can’t even imagine, bruh.

flash
flash
  flash
December 24, 2022 1:35 pm

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flash
flash
December 24, 2022 1:04 pm

ha ha ha…best Christmas commercial ever!

Santa Putin’ swaps child’s same-sex parents for a mother and father and gives a football, toy cars and a drum kit to boy being raised as a girl in anti-West propaganda video
Putin Santa is seen appearing in a house just as the young boy falls asleep
He replaces ‘girly’ items with presents deemed more suitable for a boy
Santa also changes a photo showing two male parents with that of a man and a woman. As he leaves, Putin Santa gives a knowing wink to the camera
The video feeds into Russian prejudices about Western culture

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11566339/Santa-Putin-features-anti-West-propaganda-video-Russia.html

AKJOHN
AKJOHN
December 24, 2022 1:21 pm

They have been Psycho for a while now Michael Savage, radio Jock, was banned from Great Britain, and terrorists were not. He talked about this all the time over 10 years ago. Tony Blair brought in this garbage.

messianicdruid
messianicdruid
December 24, 2022 4:38 pm

The efficacy of prayer is thus acknowledged.