Posted on 02/12/2015 2:47:18 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
The next edition of Charlie Hebdo is set to come out on February 25. A good maxim for those in the UK who are considering making a purchase is “buyer beware.”
It is simply Orwellian. Despite many in the free world standing up for freedom of speech and proudly proclaiming “Je suis Charlie,” some police forces in the United Kingdom have been questioning newsagents and demanding the names and details of those who purchased the magazine.
The edition of Charlie Hebdo in question was the one put out after the massacre of Charlie Hebdo employees in a terrorist attack in Paris on January 7.
The actions of the police came to light when a letter to the editor was published in The Guardian on Sunday. The letter, written by Anne Keat, said that two days after she received her copy, police in Wiltshire went to her newsagent to get the names of the four people who purchased that edition of Charlie Hebdo.
The Daily Mail reports, lists of the newsagents were handed over to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) at the request of ACPO. The information was provided to ACPO by John Menzies who is the British distributor of Charlie Hebdo. Menzies denied providing information to the police but that was contradicted by the Wiltshire Police who later issued an apology.
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Probably the police are trying to keep track of muslim terrorist types who will use whatever’s in Hebdo to get “offended” and use it as an excuse to kill innocents.
You have to give your name to buy a magazine?
“You have to give your name to buy a magazine?” Sounds like the latest gun law proposal.
"Sounds like the latest gun law proposal."
Sounds like they have already been disarmed.
5.56mm
“You have to give your name to buy a magazine?”
Probably not, but since virtually EVERYONE in Europe uses plastic now, for everything - the people that bought the magazine did give their names, and didn’t think anything of doing so...at the time.
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