Posted on 08/22/2025 7:51:39 PM PDT by simpson96
Police in Belgium have arrested a UK human rights activist for holding up a sign which challenged transgender ideology.
Lois McLatchie Miller was arrested in Brussel for wearing a billboard which read: Children are never born in the wrong body.”
She was detained alongside Canadian child protection advocate Chris Elston, who is known as “Billboard Chris”, after they were surrounded by an angry mob.
In spite of the pair’s peaceful conduct, police arrested Ms McLatchie Miller and Billboard Chris rather than address the aggression of the crowd.
They were taken to police stations, ordered to remove their clothes and detained for several hours before they were finally released without charge.
Paul Coleman, executive director of ADF International, said: “The Belgian authorities not only failed to uphold the fundamental right to speak freely, they turned the power of the state against those who were peacefully exercising their rights at the behest of a mob.
“This is the type of authoritarianism we challenge in other parts of the world, and it’s deeply disturbing to see it here in the very heart of Europe.
“While we are grateful our colleague has been safely released, we are deeply concerned by her treatment at the hands of the police in Brussels.”
He added: “We will not stand by while peaceful citizens are criminalised for speaking out on vital issues – especially when it’s the safety and wellbeing of children at stake.”
The arrests of the pair came a year after a Brussels mayor attempted to shut down the National Conservatism Conference, citing ideological disagreement with the speakers.
ADF International intervened then with emergency legal action that forced the restoration of the event. As a legal organisation, ADF International is now assessing all legal options to uphold free speech rights in Belgium.
Pervert supremacists are truly sick.
“They were brought to the police station, and ordered to remove their clothes.”
What?
That sounds like gratuitous harassment for daring to disagree with the Government.
Being forced to strip is a humiliation tactic often used in dictatorships and other totalitarian countries.
Next thing you know, they’ll start shaving suspect’s heads.
Like the United States.
“They were taken to police stations, ordered to remove their clothes and detained for several hours before they were finally released without charge.”
People give Putin crap, but at least Putin doesn’t have any accusations of releasing people from jail with no clothes on.
Did they force them to wear panties on their head?
> Being forced to strip is a humiliation tactic often used in dictatorships and other totalitarian countries. <
Yes. Many years ago I read an article about Soviet interrogation techniques. That was one of them.
Now for something really weird. Let’s say the prisoner was pious, very religious. One NKVD technique was to send in a female interrogator. Then SHE would strip as she questioned the prisoner.
I suppose that was meant to unnerve the pious prisoner.
I was about to say that wouldn’t work on me. But if the female interrogator looked like Rosie O’Donnell… maybe it would work.
🤔
All they have to do to get out of any possible trouble is tell the cops they’re muslims.
The left REALLY REALLY wants to force people to deny reality about human reproduction.
The left REALLY REALLY wants the folks to accept islam and to be happy bowing down to their new overlords.
Why?
To turn “Western” countries into non-Christian hellholes by replacing the Whiteys and eliminating the Christians.
Always arrest the messengers. Few of them; nobody cares.
Pox upon you people already.
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