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Charity Volunteer Arrested, Charged for Silent Prayer “ThoughtCrime” Near Abortion Facility [UK]
ADF.UK ^ | 12/20/22

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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1 posted on 12/20/2022 6:43:40 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Wow! Silently praying is now a crime in the UK? Sad what has happened to formerly Great Britain.


2 posted on 12/20/2022 6:47:03 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: marshmallow
"Police had received complaints from an onlooker who suspected that Vaughan-Spruce was praying silently in her mind."

Not the Babylon Bee.

3 posted on 12/20/2022 6:47:21 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: marshmallow
Nobody should ever be subject to harassment.

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.

4 posted on 12/20/2022 6:50:16 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

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!


5 posted on 12/20/2022 6:53:19 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: marshmallow

> 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.


6 posted on 12/20/2022 7:09:06 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: NorthMountain

“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.

L


7 posted on 12/20/2022 7:11:14 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

(Police had received complaints from an onlooker who suspected that Vaughan-Spruce was praying silently in her mind.)

YOU VILL THINK PROPER THOUGHTS!!!!


8 posted on 12/20/2022 7:14:36 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: marshmallow

Police state/thought crime alert. Coming soon to a country near you.


9 posted on 12/20/2022 7:17:12 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: SaveFerris

Oops I meant:

YOU VILL THINK ZEE PROPER THOUGHTS!!!!

AND

YOU VILL EAT ZEE BUGS!!!!


10 posted on 12/20/2022 7:18:16 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Leaning Right
But do not talk to them. No good can come out of it.

Lots of good you tube videos on that. I agree, don’t talk to them. They are not your friends.

11 posted on 12/20/2022 7:23:21 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: marshmallow

Every American liberal: Man, we gotta get a law like that.”


12 posted on 12/20/2022 7:50:25 PM PST by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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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.


13 posted on 12/20/2022 8:00:00 PM PST by Arkansas Toothpick
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

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


14 posted on 12/20/2022 8:28:36 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

IOW, I agree 👍

✝️🙏🛐


15 posted on 12/20/2022 8:29:12 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: marshmallow; All

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.


16 posted on 12/20/2022 10:13:38 PM PST by robowombat
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To: marshmallow

We become less free every day.


17 posted on 12/21/2022 3:37:50 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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