That it should come to this in Great Britain today. A woman is arrested for silent prayer on a public street.
Have police officers nothing better to do? We didn't have any of this nonsense before police constables were elevated to police officers.
Meanwhile in Scotland 'changing gender' is to be made easier so that a man can self identify as a woman and enter women only facilities.
The country is going mad.
Thank you for posting this. Really impressed with the dignified way that the police officer deals with this offender. Pays her great respect and deals with her kindly. She shouldn’t be there and she’s been asked to move multiple times over multiple days. Her actions are inflammatory and an offence to vulnerable users of the clinic. I hope she learns her lesson and reflects on her need to impose her views on others So publicly and so flagrantly
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"This offender"?
DeleteShe hasn't been charged, tried or convicted but you have already acted as prosecution, jury and judge!
Her "actions" inflammatory and an offense?
Standing still, hands in pockets, doing nothing, no placards or banners, saying nothing.
Impose her views on others?
You're imputing your own attitude and behaviour to her.
Your comments are so moronic you should be Archbishop of Wales.
It is no nice to have migrants from thinking anglicans on this blog - welcome DD!
DeleteThe thought Police state is here.
ReplyDeletePolitically correct persecution of Christians by at least three plod with nothing better to do.
Then there will be the custody sergeant who will have to make the decision to detain her, followed by more plod to carry out a recorded interview and then an Inspector (or higher rank) to decide whether she should be charged and bailed or not.
Then a file will be sent to the CPS for review and decision on whether to prosecute or not.
Clearly plod is overfunded and over resourced.
She'd be better off answering "No comment" to every question (big mistake to mention the abortion clinic at all) saying "No" when asked if she understood why she was being arrested and refusing to be bailed at all, with or without any conditions attached.
Give plod nothing to work with, make it impossible for plod to prove her motive(s) and "crime(s)" beyond any reasonable doubt.
If she ends up in Court she should remind the Magistrate /Judge of the motto on the coat of arms on the wall behind him/her.
"Dieu et mon droit - God and my right".
Even His Majesty answers to a higher authority, or so he claims.
We shall soon see if the Crown and the new King is truly the Defender of THE faith.
Had she blocked roads, like the oil activists, the police would ask if she was ok and could they help her at all. Scary crazy world.
ReplyDeleteA point well made in the link, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11487029/Just-Stop-Oil-laugh-joke-officers-police-escort-slow-march.html , which is conveniently ignored in DD's comment.
DeleteDaily Mail? Utter inflammatory gutter pres - a posh news of the world
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The photographs of the police colluding with the demonstrators speak for themselves.
DeleteThe fact that the photographs appear on the Daily Fail website is irrelevant.
Had the photographs appeared on Reuters, the BBC, in The Gaurdian, the Daily Mirror or the Big Issue would the Duplicitous Dunce be so obnoxious?
Just a very very nasty bully and Troll.
Yet more Plod inefficiency in dealing with real crime.
Deletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64057742
Only 1% of catalytic converter thefts solved.
Hertfordshire and South Yorkshire Constabularies file ZERO charges despite hundreds and hundreds of such thefts.
Other Constabularies fail to provide their data.
The forces must take real "Pride" in their woke priorities.
If the woman's intention/purpose outside an abortion clinic was perceived to be intimidating (to either clients or staff) and complaint made by public, then Police had every right under various Acts to attend. Much the same as they 'move on' beggars who park themselves uncomfortably close to High Street ATM's, Its us who make the Laws not the police.
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Try getting plod to exercise their "right" (should read "duty") to attend a reported burglary!
DeleteThey are far too busy dealing with micro aggressions on Twitter and Facebook or arresting ladies standing silently doing nothing on the public footpath.
Any remaining vestige of confidence I might have had in the police has now evaporated, along with that officers ability to exercise some common sense!
Bewildered
Shopkeepers are also in despair as shoplifters take advantage of police refusal to deal with any theft less than £200 in value. It has become a virtual free-for-all.
DeleteThe fact that two respondents to this blog should show any sympathy to the police who arrested this woman is another indication of how spiritually lost our once great country was. Amazing the depth of ungodliness some self-proclaiming Christians will embrace.
ReplyDeleteFalse prophets every one!
The last comment should have been signed Rob. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteI've watched the video and its quite evident there's far more to this if any of you clever dicks know the process. The lady wasn't arrested for praying, but rather as the officer explained (politely) for contravention of previous cautions reported by public under Public Order acts. Its exactly the same procedure as you might expect on a late night High Street where police would warn, and warn again, offensive drunks to leave the scene and go home. If they chose not to, then its down to the Nick for a little chat and for her - I suspect - a police caution which won't appear on her record. To Zebedee (above), the CPS doesn't even come into it and nor I am sure will she meet a Custody sergeant. I thought the officer's intervention - evidently acting on earlier activities not shown on the video - was proper and polite.
ReplyDeleteI never in my wildest dreams (or nightmares) thought I might agree with DD, but on this one, I submit that she's probably right. There is a magic at Christmas after all!
Old Bill
Nothing ungodly in their actions or in my
A caution does appear on one's records which is why, in principle, one should never be accepted without very good legal advice and due consideration.
DeleteThe lady was neither offensive, rude, drunk, violent, noisy nor was she unreasonable.
In fact, she was more quietly spoken than the police officer.
I sincerely hope he will be facing disciplinary measures for false arrest and wasting police time and it is just as well for the lady that a third party was present to record the incident. After all, it's not unheard of for police officers to plant evidence or make false allegations of their own to justify misconduct in public office.
Would DD's ridiculous attitude be the same if the lady was pro-abortion and behaving in the same manner?
Once more, as usual, DD succeeds only in revealing his or her own prejudices and twisted agenda.
Speaking of falsifying evidence.
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Chief Inspector of South Wales plod jailed.
For falsifying evidence.
Perfect timing
Old Bill is full of crap.
DeleteIf he'd bothered to pin back his cloth ears, he would have clearly heard the arresting officer inform the woman that she would be dealing with a Custody Sergeant at the police station.
Almost unbelievable that this woman should be cautioned by Plod, arrested & charged (with what?) I thought at first I was watching a Monty Python sketch, (& half expecting John Cleese to walk past, complete with bowler, brolly & silly walk.) PS. I'll warrant if she were a Muslim protesting same - NOTHING would be done! "Breach of one's Rights..")
ReplyDeleteQuite so.
DeleteAnd by what means would plod identify her hiding behind a full face veil?
Plod can't even identify suspects without a mask.
Deletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/12/28/police-criticised-failing-solve-one-million-thefts-burglaries/
It's a public service ripe for the introduction of performance related pay.
Meanwhile burglaries, rapes and murders happened.
ReplyDeleteI haven’t seen all the details of this case. Perhaps the woman was being provocative and intimidatory - I simply don’t know. But it would be concerning indeed if the lawfulness of what she did turned on whether the unvoiced thoughts in her head were or were not prayer.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, perhaps commenters might go easy on the individual police officers who have to do their best with the laws our lawmakers give them.
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ReplyDeleteHave a happy and blessed Christmas everyone. And for those of you who don’t mark the season, happy holidays to you also.
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Suggested listening instead of the usual BBC Christmas day repeats.
ReplyDeletehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RHjXW-aAmB8
The rise of Wokery
Rod Liddle delivers this Smith lecture last month.
The Church gets a well deserved dishonourable mention.
He's usually very good but his mocking of 'the old white man in the beard who created the world according to the bible, a 'story' which he thought ridiculous just shows he is an ignorant arrogant heathen who doesn't even know what he mocks. I shall never listen to him again and suggest no-one else does
DeleteHardly.
DeleteThe notion that an invisible imaginary omnipotent being (who looks like an old man with a beard) created everything in six days and then needed a day off is as patently absurd as the Maori mythological explanation.
Both are even more ludicrous when one takes note of the scientific facts that the Universe is about 13.5 billion years old, still expanding and with the creation process (stellar nurseries etc) still ongoing.
Liddle met Rachel Royce, a television presenter, at the BBC in 1993, and the couple soon became romantically involved. In January 2004 the couple married at a ceremony in Malaysia. They had been living in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, and had two sons together, Tyler and Wilder. Six months later, Liddle moved in with Alicia Monckton, a 22-year-old receptionist at The Spectator. It transpired that he had cut short his honeymoon with Royce so that he could be with Monckton.
DeleteOn 5 May 2005, he was arrested for common assault against Monckton, who was 20 weeks pregnant at the time. He admitted the offence and accepted a police caution, but asserted later that he did so only because it was the quickest way for him to be released, and that he had not assaulted her.
"Say 'NO' to the queering of Carols"
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/Ta3gyE3QWoY
Probably the best sermon anyone could listen to on Christmas day.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/28/bbc-guilty-rewriting-british-history-promote-woke-agenda-biased/
ReplyDeleteThe latest skewed BBC reporting and attempts to rewrite British history.
Time to cancel the BBC.
Stop paying the TV licence tax.