Prosecuted for THINKING and Prayers - Barrister Explains

Birmingham City Council issued a Public Spaces Protection Order criminalising thoughts and prayers outside a clinic.

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[carolberry]

The more I watch your channel the more I realise how much Britain is a police state.

[darkwoods]

How come when people were sitting in the middle of busy roads causing chaos the police were bringing them blankets and cups of tea yet this woman stands silently praying she's arrested?

[vyvienvp]

This is a really sinister breach of human rights. Where will this end.

[sadlaw]

Her silent prayers must be quite powerful, to send everyone into such a state

[darel]

If only the councils and Gestapo put this much effort into stamping out the grooming gangs

[KevinInPhoenix]

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.” ― George Orwell, 1984

[andygray]

How does one even enforce a bail condition like that?

"Have you been saying prayers in your head?"

"No"

"Well we think you have so you're under arrest for breach of bail conditions"

Then you are into territory where police can just arrest you for what they think instead of what they can prove.

[TabashiiSC]

People getting shot and stabbed all the time, all over the UK, yet they go after someone who is praying silently... Such heroes.

[paulkavanaghk]

So under her bail conditions she is banned from praying anywhere outside this area even in her head, this is utterly unbelievable!

[kubapuchalski]

Violent crime gets pat on a back, people blocking streets, destroying art are praised and woman that prays in her head ( which they can't even verify) gets prosecuted. We indeed live in a clown world.

[MookieMarkova]

If people wonder why I have lost faith in our legal system, here's a good example.

[pizzaboy]

Thank you for highlighting this very worrying development. 1984 is no longer a work of fiction in this country.

[MrRockstar]

The council should be arrested and charged for such criminal thoughts.

[roby]

'When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty' -Thomas Jefferson

[cdrone]

It needs to be challenged in court, over broad and too restrictive. The clinic was closed, no one rights were infringed on but her rights.

[fen]

I cannot imagine how police engaging in this corrupt betrayal of the public can ever hold their heads up again

[tamreid]

If you speak to the police, get a lawyer, if you are innocent you definitely need a lawyer.

[gerardphillips]

I am appalled at the legislation behind this arrest, it's odious! As for arresting people for thinking something, without any expressions of those thoughts is frankly ridiculous! It's legislation that I would not enforce

[paulblayney]

They can arrest me, imprison me, torture me, and even ultimately execute me but they will never take away my freedom of my own personal thoughts.
As a veteran of two gulf wars, i'm starting to feel ashamed of my service and doubting everything i thought i was fighting for.

[praevasc]

Strangely, I've found many people on left-leaning forums who are happy she was arrested and ask for severe sentencing, because she was "causing anxiety with her presence". Interestingly, the mass looting and rioting and arson (committed by some sort of people I can't even name because my profile would be banned), are not considered by them as something that can cause anxiety.