Posted on 12/20/2022 6:43:40 PM PST by marshmallow
* Birmingham charity volunteer arrested and searched – including through her hair – after silently praying in a censorship zone
*Arrest and charges take place as authorities consider criminalising prayer near abortion facilities nationwide
BIRMINGHAM (20 December 2022) – A charity volunteer has been arrested and charged on four counts after she told the police she “might” be praying silently, when questioned as to why she was standing on a public street near an abortion facility.
Police approached Isabel Vaughan-Spruce standing near the BPAS Robert Clinic in Kings Norton, Birmingham. Vaughan-Spruce was carrying no sign and remained completely silent until approached by officers. Police had received complaints from an onlooker who suspected that Vaughan-Spruce was praying silently in her mind.
“It’s abhorrently wrong that I was searched, arrested, interrogated by police and charged simply for praying in the privacy of my own mind. Censorship zones purport to ban harassment, which is already illegal. Nobody should ever be subject to harassment. But what I did was the furthest thing from harmful – I was exercising my freedom of thought, my freedom of religion, inside the privacy of my own mind. Nobody should be criminalised for thinking and for praying, in a public space in the UK,” said Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, following her arrest for silent prayer.
The censorship zone measure introduced by Birmingham authorities criminalises individuals percieved to be “engaging in any act of approval or disapproval or attempted act of approval or disapproval” in relation to abortion, including through “verbal or written means, prayer or counselling…”.
A “thoughtcrime” in UK law?
Vaughan-Spruce had stood near the abortion facility whilst it was closed on three occasions, in which she says she “might” have been praying.
When shown pictures of herself outside the abortion facility by police, Vaughan-Spruce was questioned as to whether she......
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Wow! Silently praying is now a crime in the UK? Sad what has happened to formerly Great Britain.
Not the Babylon Bee.
She said of her mortal enemies, after she herself was subjected to harassment. This is what happens when we tolerate evil. Evil will NOT tolerate us.
Apparently the police and pro-aborts recognize that “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man [or woman] availeth much”. And they’re afraid of that power. Good!
> she told the police she “might” be praying silently <
It is, of course, a travesty that this woman was arrested simply for what she was thinking.
This incident illustrates an important rule. Do not talk to the police. Do not answer their questions. Be nice. But do not talk to them. No good can come out of it.
I realize that the UK has no 5th Amendment. Nevertheless, UK law is clear.
You do not have to talk to the police.
“She said of her mortal enemies, after she herself was subjected to harassment.”
Personally I think we may have taken this “turn the other cheek” thing a bit too far.
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(Police had received complaints from an onlooker who suspected that Vaughan-Spruce was praying silently in her mind.)
YOU VILL THINK PROPER THOUGHTS!!!!
Police state/thought crime alert. Coming soon to a country near you.
Oops I meant:
YOU VILL THINK ZEE PROPER THOUGHTS!!!!
AND
YOU VILL EAT ZEE BUGS!!!!
Lots of good you tube videos on that. I agree, don’t talk to them. They are not your friends.
Every American liberal: Man, we gotta get a law like that.”
The fact that some are so threatened by silent prayer is clear evidence that our battle is not against flesh-and-blood but spiritual forces of darkness.
The demonic forces inhabiting their souls are crying out in anguish.
Ephesians 6:12
King James Version
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%206%3A12&version=KJV
IOW, I agree 👍
✝️🙏🛐
During the Obama ‘government shutdown’ the worthless National Park Service put up crappy thread ‘barriers’ around places such as the entrance to the Viet Nam Memorial and threatened to have the fearsome National Park Police arrest those standing outside these crappy ‘barriers’ and looking. I remember on fat female Park Cop shouting at some elderly veteran ‘Sir, You are clearly recreating. Please move on or I will arrest you.’ This is a true story.
We become less free every day.
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