Posted on 03/15/2021 11:38:55 AM PDT by RandFan
We knew this was coming. UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has been extremely clear about what she thinks of Black Lives Matter. “Those protests were dreadful,” she said last month. She’s also been clear about what she thinks of Extinction Rebellion. At a police conference last year she branded its activists “eco-crusaders turned criminals”. Now we see what she plans to do about it.
On Tuesday, the Home Office published the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill. It covers a wide range of areas, from sentencing to digital information. But it has a specific section on the policing of protests. And the function of this section is simple: It aims to silence them. It is cancel culture on a statutory footing, directed against the left.
This is not a metaphor. It is the literal and explicit function of the legislation.
The policing bill does this by amending an old piece of legislation called the Public Order Act 1986. This older Act gave police officers powers which they have used against protestors ever since. If they believe that a demonstration risked “serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community”, they could impose restrictions on it – for instance on where it went, whether it moved or how many people could be present.
This week’s policing bill adds a further justification for the restrictions: noise. If the noise of the protest “may result in serious disruption to the activities of an organisation” – for instance by distracting employees in a nearby office, then the police can impose restrictions. It goes without saying that this applies to almost any protest at all around parliament, the whole purpose of which is to get the attention of politicians.
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Leave it to a know-it-all Indian immigrant to know-it-all for the rest of us. Their native country is in such great shape . A true model for the rest of humanity.What’s not like?
Ian Dunt? Looks like someone misspelled his name again.
UK does not have First Amendment,unlike US...I don’t think this kind of legislation will work in US...The courts will probably declare it unconstitutional...
I believe the UK is still bound by the EU constitution.
“The European Union recognises the following rights and freedoms to all, citizens or not: the right to life and physical integrity; the right to equality for all before the law; the right to equality of opportunity; freedom of conscience, opinion and belief; freedom of expression; freedom of peaceful assembly; freedom of association and to form political parties and unions; right to privacy of all means of communication, personal data and information; freedom of movement; freedom of occupation; right to education; right to private property and protection of said property against unreasonable searches and seizures; right of asylum; and right to petition federal authorities and expect a response, as prescribed by law. Citizens are also recognised the right to political representation, the right to an adequate standard of living, and the full enjoyment of public goods as prescribed by law.”
“no right or freedom shall be interfered with, unless pursuant to a law aimed at upholding the public safety and the rights of the community, with fair consideration given to the necessity of security and the imperative of liberty. Any law interfering with a fundamental right or freedom shall apply generally and specify said affected right or freedom; in no case may the essence of a fundamental right or freedom be affected.”
https://europeanconstitution.eu/the-european-constitution
“I believe the UK is still bound by the EU constitution”
I think that’s not the case - but most EU legislation was retained in UK law at the point we left. Only now is it beginning to drift and evolve separately.
Further, the UK’s Human Rights Act of 1998 is informed by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The convention was created just after WWII.
Members of the Council of Europe follow the ECHR. Council members include most EU states, the UK (a founder member in 1949) and countries like Turkey & Russia.
“Leave it to a know-it-all Indian immigrant”
Is that a reference to Patel? If so you will be pleased to know she was born in London to parents that had already emigrated to England some time earlier. That makes her as British as me.
If you were referring to someone else, please ignore my comment.
If they’re blocking traffic, it isn’t a protest.
I doubt that protestors who want politicians to ‘hear them’ outside Parliment are going to be heard thru those thick walls, any more than Congress could hear a crowd of thousands outside the Capitol.
peaceful assembly is a right, but they should be small enough to be managed for the safety of everyone. Otherwise it’s just a mob that tends to turn violent as people who have no intention of being peaceful join the crowd.
Is Churchill still in a wood box?
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