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SOLO-International Press Release: Britons Never Shall Be Slaves? But They Already Are! Submitted by Lindsay Perigo on Thu, 2008-05-22 00:26.
It beggars belief, says SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo. He means this story in The Guardian, May 20 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/20/1): "A teenager is facing prosecution for using the word 'cult' to describe the Church of Scientology. The unnamed 15-year-old was served the summons by City of London police when he took part in a peaceful demonstration opposite the London headquarters of the controversial religion. Officers confiscated a placard with the word 'cult' on it from the youth, who is under 18, and a case file has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service. A date has not yet been set for him to appear in court. ... Demonstrators from the anti-Scientology group, Anonymous, who were outside the church's £23m headquarters near St Paul's cathedral, were banned by police from describing Scientology as a cult by police because it was 'abusive and insulting.'" A flabbergasted Perigo asks: "Is this the Britain of Hyde Park Corner? Of John Milton and John Locke? Of John Stuart Mill, who said, 'If any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility'? "The same Britain allows Muslims to demonstrate with placards saying 'Death to Freedom of Speech!' Evidently City of London police are taking that advice seriously! One is not now allowed to call a dopey cult a cult, let alone an exquisitely stupid one. "What a mockery of the words of Rule Britannia: The nations, not so blest as thee, "Britons are already slaves," Perigo concludes, "to the most egregious, home-grown tyranny of political correctness. To think these are the descendants of the stout-hearts who defeated Hitler!" Lindsay Perigo editor@freeradical.co.nz SOLO SOLOPassion.com
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Sort of relevant news today...
...to address the whole "UK police-state" allegation. Surely the UK police should also be applauded for doing a good job more often, than not.
"Police were today searching a home linked to a suspected convert to Islam arrested after an explosion in an Exeter restaurant.
Armed officers raided the home in King Street, Plymouth, connected to 22-year-old Nicky Reilly, a white Muslim convert said to have learning difficulties.
Devon and Cornwall Deputy Chief Constable Tony Melville said Reilly appeared to be a “vulnerable” individual who had been “preyed upon” and “radicalised”.
No-one else was hurt in the incident."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2012790/Exeter-bomb-Nicky-Reilly%...
Yes, and it's all down to Tony Blair...
...that lover of Islamofascism, Catholic fascism and PC fascism who screwed up Thatcher's legacy! After winning three elections, all politicians now want to be as fascist as he was.
However, he didn't manage to completely destroy British freedom. A good indication of that is the media attention given to these stories in the first place. The UK still has one of the most free presses in the world!
Police Statism is all the rage...
...in the countries that once stood solidly *against* it, namely the UK and in the US (and in particular, here in the People's Republic of California where smoking is all but completely banned). Tragic.
The government plans to
The government plans to hold details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public.
As they say on Slashdot: "lolgoodluckwiththat". Seriously though, the UK police state has reached entirely creepy levels.
Objectivist HQ
Clearly, I must use the word 'cult' more often to describe Objectivism - while I still can!
Now, where did you say your multi-million dollar headquarters is located?
Well said
We could do with a thread on the decline and fall of Great Britain.
Today's News in the UK
The government plans to hold details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public.
"A composer who refused to pay £5 for a lost car parking ticket at a supermarket ended up in police custody for six hours, was interrogated, finger-printed and made to take a DNA test"
"A station florist found negligent after a commuter slipped on a petal and injured himself has lost its bid to appeal against the decision."
High Court judges have ruled psychiatric patients should not be allowed to smoke at a high security mental hospital. (Prisoners have more rights).