Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Police arrest more than 3,400 people for ‘offensive’ online comments 2017 (free speech dead in UK)
Freedom Post--The Times ^

Posted on 01/14/2018 12:39:07 PM PST by Cubs Fan

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081 next last
To: Cubs Fan

“” “” This is horrific— like something out of an Orwellian Dystopia or somewhere like Cuba or the former soviet union. This should never be happening in a western demcoracy””” “

With the exception that the Soviet Union mostly didn’t go that far.
There is a ‘People’ s Cube’ conservative satire website run by a Soviet immigrant.
The guy was doing the same thing in USSR since 1970s and he said KGB visited him and threatened to force his employer to fire him would he not stop but it never materialized.
First time he was actually arrested and put in jail in Virginia in 2017 over pro-Israel posters.


61 posted on 01/14/2018 7:21:28 PM PST by NorseViking
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

“I like the American version better.”

The limey one was more than I wanted. I gave the US one a miss.


62 posted on 01/14/2018 7:44:43 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: Cubs Fan

Add this to London having one of the largest surveillance camera networks in the world, do not be fooled, the left has virtually turned London and a lot of UK into a virtual police state.


63 posted on 01/14/2018 7:44:55 PM PST by cranked
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Peter ODonnell; Cubs Fan
I would like to see a separation of two different kinds of cases here, those that arise from general statements of opinion, and those that might involve targeted statements that as the law reads, “cause annoyance, anxiety etc” to a specific person, as in posting, “my neighbour Reg Brown of 15 Ash Grove, Leicester, is a child molester and a pervert,” when there is no evidence of same. That I could see as being a genuine legal case. So of this 3,400 people, how many are like that?

All of them

and how many are more like you or me saying “we don’t want a lot of immigration”

None of them

64 posted on 01/15/2018 12:41:39 AM PST by Winniesboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies]

To: Cubs Fan

Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. People are so free to express their views on the streets, in violence against Jooos!, white people, and infidels generally, and feuding with rival sects of Islam and the police. They just have to watch their mouths in that little niche called the Internet, and everyone has a tizzy over it.


65 posted on 01/15/2018 2:31:26 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cubs Fan

That’s what happens when you allow yourself and your people to be disarmed and won’t fight back when it starts.

There’s a book called “And Not A Shot Was Fired” by Jan Kovacs.

It’s worth reading. It’s more of an instruction manual...


66 posted on 01/15/2018 7:51:48 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cubs Fan
which makes it illegal to intentionally “cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another”

The media's "Russian collusion" anyone? 80% of the US media would be locked up if that were a US law and enforced against those who call themselves journalists. How about those in the UK trolling Trump? Like "Khaaaaaaan"!

67 posted on 01/15/2018 8:04:58 AM PST by Religion and Politics (It's Morning in America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: firebrand

Apparently this can happen to a Constitutional Monarchy like the UK. I thought Canada was bad with our human rights tribunals, but to date no one has been arrested (many have been fined and put under injunctions). Difference is the UK IS a fascist state - Canada is BECOMING one. South Africa is basically a failed socialist state. Can’t really comment on the other two Constitutional Monarchies - Australia and New Zealand. I do know Australia has closed down around 10,000 websites, the government deems as pornography.


68 posted on 01/15/2018 2:00:36 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: madison10

Already lost. The UK and Western Europe.

What remains to be seen is if these countries survive: Switzerland, Old eastern Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Canada at the moment is on the WRONG track with our part time drama teacher is PM.


69 posted on 01/15/2018 2:02:55 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: NFHale

The UK went off the rails under King James when it started rounding up Presbyterians and others who would not embrace the Anglican faith. That was put to rest under the Glorious Revolution, but maybe the rot stayed and was always there.


70 posted on 01/15/2018 2:04:35 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: Sam Gamgee

Interesting and sad.


71 posted on 01/15/2018 4:51:02 PM PST by firebrand
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 68 | View Replies]

To: Cubs Fan

{ shrug }

It’s been illegal for several years now for pastors in Canada to read from certain “offensive” parts of the Bible.

Coming to a “private” Marxist Corporate-collective near you soon!


72 posted on 01/15/2018 5:05:24 PM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SaveFerris

>>Fahrenheit 451

Oooh. Reading books like that is going to get you on double plus probation!


73 posted on 01/15/2018 5:08:53 PM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: HLPhat

I need to read the whole thing I guess. Plus Atlas Shrugged and watch THX1138.

I DID go through Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” in school....

I still like to watch 2004’s “Manchurian Candidate” - loaded with Democrats, they actually made it a reality in 2008. Yes, even Al Franken is in there (ever so briefly). Really didn’t care for it at the theater but now really like it.

And the 1974’s(?) “The Parallax View” - only Warren Beatty movie I can watch multiple times. Old school but interesting.


74 posted on 01/15/2018 5:13:33 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: HLPhat

I made a few errors in that post which somebody corrected me on. I actually asked for it to be removed, LOL.


75 posted on 01/15/2018 5:15:34 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: SaveFerris
>>Yes, even Al Franken is in there


76 posted on 01/15/2018 5:19:19 PM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: SaveFerris

>>I actually asked for it to be removed, LOL.

More Soma Please?


77 posted on 01/15/2018 5:22:21 PM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies]

To: Bonemaker

Getty image, sorry.


78 posted on 01/15/2018 5:22:48 PM PST by Admin Moderator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: HLPhat

Sounds about right.

Maybe they implanted microchips in the brains of people fooled by Obama. Let’s see if they buy Cup of Noodles, tomatoes, No-Doz and romance novels.

https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/01cf38f0-0327-4215-8d81-97dd0bff8d82


79 posted on 01/15/2018 5:23:52 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 76 | View Replies]

To: HLPhat

This one straightened me out

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3622433/posts?page=38#38


80 posted on 01/15/2018 5:26:34 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 77 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson