Posted on 04/27/2014 2:35:39 PM PDT by Enza Ferreri
The leader of the Liberty GB party Paul Weston, who was arrested yesterday for breaching a Section 27 Dispersal Notice, is now possibly facing imprisonment for 2 years.
Mr Weston, a candidate in the 22 May European Elections in the South East, was arrested on 26 April in front of Winchester Guildhall for quoting in public a passage critical of Islam written by Winston Churchill, using a megaphone.
He spent several hours in a cell at Winchester Police Station, after which the original charge of breaching a Section 27 Dispersal Notice was dropped and Mr Weston was "re-arrested" for a Racially Aggravated Crime, under Section 4 of the Public Order Act, which carries a potential prison sentence of 2 years.
He was then fingerprinted and obliged to submit to DNA sampling, following which he was bailed with a return date to Winchester Police on May 24th.
Had the woman who complained to the police made an official statement, Mr Weston would not have been released last night, but fortunately for him she did not.
The case is now being presented to the Crown Prosecution Service. If the CPS decides to prosecute, then Mr Weston will be arrested, awaiting trial, when he presents himself to the police on May 24th.
Coming soon to a country near you.
So...how much do you hate living in America now?
Incidentally, they ONLY loved Churchill when they needed him to bail them out of trouble.
They are going to wake up totally owned and being charged under Sharia.
Coming to us via Obama if someone doesn't take away his magic pen. He is threatening to declare any denigration of Islam a crime.
vaudine
Arrested for a “racially aggravating” crime? Seriously?
When did islam become a “race”?
“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” - The Boy King
Ew, we need those here.
Ah...but there is one huge difference between the UK and US. Need I say it? Obama started on this road and he will...fail...during his journey.
every day you hear of people arrested for hating someone...not for the crime committed in conjunction with the hate crime.
you say the wrong thing you are audited by the IRS.
yes it is baby steps compared to lack of freedom of speech that they have ( they never did have it ) in England.
but it is here, it is real, at it is getting worse.
no one here hates America....only the criminals who currently run it ....
Was it you?
fortunately for him she did not.
So was it you?
Did he perhaps object to the constant blogging?
Did he maybe suggest you get a job and you called the cops?
You are correct. Which is why I have always said I will fight to maintain what we have, A Republic based on the Constitution. Or die trying.
There’s no question this is horrible, but I’m not so sure the USA is so far behind:
The IRS is being used openly as a tool of hyperpartisan political terror —totally without consequences. The top lawman in the US exported machine-guns to drug-dealers —also without consequences. In fact, he openly promises to do more and when questioned on the matter in Congress responds by snapping, “You don’t want to go there, buddy.”
In the USA you can frame a film-maker for an international incident, roust him in the dead of night before the kleig lights of four TV film crews, clap him into solitary confinement —again, no consequences.
I long for the Great Britain the others here do and I’m alarmed by this article, but the idea of us being much better off than Great Britain, well...I don’t think so.
Here here. Couldn’t agree more.
Yep. The only thing protecting out freedom is a 5-4 majority in the Supreme Court. If that flips, the Bible will be hate speech in short order.
Sit back and watch the show if we dont get our act together we to will be in thier boat
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