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Posted on 12/24/2025 6:22:39 AM PST by MtnClimber
Imagine facing arrest simply for posting sharp or critical comments online. Picture police at your door for expressing opposition to mass immigration. Envision a country where you could be imprisoned for years without a jury ever deciding your guilt.
This isn't dystopian fiction - it's the reality unfolding in Britain today, my former home and once part of the free world.
Earlier this year, parents Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine from Hertfordshire were arrested in front of their children over disparaging remarks made in a private parents' messaging group. They were among the estimated 10,000 people arrested in Britain this year for online posts -- more than in communist China.
Of course, not all those arrested are sent to prison. But plenty are. Lucy Connolly received a 31-month jail sentence after posting online, including a call for “mass deportation now.”
Lucy Connolly and others have received “exemplary” sentences -- in other words, instead of the British courts dispensing justice dispassionately, they have handed down arbitrary sentences designed to make an example of people, as one might expect in a third-world country.
For most people arrested in these cases, the process itself -- months of uncertainty, reputational damage, family stress and the inability to earn a living -- is intended to be the punishment. Again, this is redolent of what you might find in a third world country, rather than the home of Magna Carta.
Clause 39 of Magna Carta declares that no free person shall be punished “except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land” -- enshrining the right to trial by jury. Yet recently, Britain’s Justice Secretary David Lammy has proposed "reforms" that would severely limit jury trials, restricting them largely to the most serious offenses (such as murder, manslaughter, and rape)
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It is also a two-tiered justice system and, somehow, muslims got the top tier.
The United States has the only formal constitution on the face of this planet that protects the citizenry from its government.
If the UK’s citizenry succeeds in wresting control of their country back from its Deep State, the above is the first thing that needs to change.
Note to the UK: Feel free to crib ours.
BTW, we missed an anniversary 9 days ago...
“On this day 234 years ago, the Bill of Rights was officially ratified. With two centuries of examples showing us how willing governments are to ignore even these enumerated rights, it’s astonishing that those first ten amendments almost didn’t make it into the Constitution at all...”
“Note to the UK: Feel free to crib ours.”
They’d get to the 2A and have a meltdown.
The dumb Brit voter allowed the muslims to control the vote, live with it or start a revolution.
Or as Jonathan Swift said, "For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
Correct.
bkmk
Every judge, politician, cop, entertainer, news reader, professor, “activist”, ... every single one that supports this travesty is a traitor. They will gladly kill, imprison and/or impoverish your family.... once those quislings fear walking outdoor than the joy of imprisoning British citizens... then the tide will turn. Only then.
Britain is a pathetic joke.
Doesn’t anyone there have any backbone to revolt against these globalist, WOKE, LIB, Lefty nitwits?
In the meantime...LOL!
Envision a country where you could be imprisoned for years without a jury ever deciding your guilt.
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I’m sure the J6 persecuted can.
According to an April 2025 Times report, based on freedom of information requests to police forces, they reported approximately 12,000 arrests per year (about 33 per day on average!) under two very broad laws governing “hate speech.”
And we are supposed to hate Russia?
The only thing that can save the UK is a clone of Donald Trump.
Who wants to be in a military alliance with a totalitarian nation that isn’t significantly different than China or Cuba?
We need to start treating Britain like NKorea. Cancel gov’mt, especially DOWar contracts — stop investing in Brit. Up the vetting of anyone coming thru Brit to the US.
Yes, if you are a Froggie and do a stopover in Heathrow you get extra vetting at any US airport.
Start giving them pain. That is all tyrants/bullies recognize.
UK is a joke. Went so woke that there was no room in their tiny brains for common sense anymore.
What warning would that be? Are the Brits saying, “look even with all of our guns we are still loosing our country.”?
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