Sorry but here it comes again...........

Another person is possibly facing a jail sentence for peacefully objecting to our loss of freedom imposed under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCA). This time it involves one of a group of people who meet up once a week in Parliament Square to protest our loss of freedom and the right to show objections to the Iraq War.

They share tea and cake together there.

Have we been sleepwalking into this? Are these people mentioned in the link below heroes or fools?


Story here (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article356271.ece)

Ridiculous. Why can't people protest outside parliament? Just another example of politicians not wanting to face the problems they have caused.

Hello to the new world of law, you realise that they could probably be detained without charge under the terroeism act also :loopy:

Sorry but here it comes again...........

Another person is possibly facing a jail sentence for peacefully objecting to our loss of freedom imposed under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCA). This time it involves one of a group of people who meet up once a week in Parliament Square to protest our loss of freedom and the right to show objections to the Iraq War.

They share tea and cake together there.

Have we been sleepwalking into this? Are these people mentioned in the link below heroes or fools?


Story here (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article356271.ece)

GGGRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...........:mad:

Hello to the new world of law, you realise that they could probably be detained without charge under the terroeism act also :loopy:

get an asbo and tag aswell :loopy:

Well anyone who has tea & cakes outside Parliment wants locking up in the loony bin :hihi:

Plus when a police officer as you to do something dont refuse. Comply with his/her request then complain.

I've seen these people - it's called The People's Picnic. They just sit there and eat a buttie, no banners or anything. Sometimes there are all of three people sitting there! Really, they are dead scary...:o

;)

Maybe he should have shown some manners and offered the copper a piece of his cake? :)

Indeed, and the **** take is that this legislation was only introduced to have a pop at Brian Haw, who's been protesting outside for years.

The judge saw through it though, and now Mr Haw is the only person in the entire country legally allowed to protest there.

I'm actually glad that this has happened. I hope that it draws more media attention and exposes what's happening to public freedoms in the name of law and order.

Scenario 2:

Picnic is permitted to continue at the discretion of the police,
a group of Asians climb off a bus from Bradford the following week, having seen this relaxation of the law, and stage a peaceful stroll round the park en-masse, and the police decide enough is enough. Is this now racism?

Sorry, but we have to be careful where we draw our lines, and unfortunately that place is now at zero tolerance, as we don't live in a society governed by common sense, but the letter of the law - neither of which seem to coincide very often :roll:

The govt. is running scared. At their pess conference launching the Nulabour campaign for the coming local elections the select few journalists invited to attend were not allowed to ask any questions.

'Ask no questions, - be told no lies' ??

Gag the press, gag the public - hardly the tactics of an open and democratic govt. :huh:

I think Mark Thomas hit the nail on the head:

A democracy that can not stand one man and some placards outside its front doors doesn't seem to have much faith in itself.

This is outrageous. Politicians need to remember that they work for us, we don't work for them. :rant:

I'm not that much of a political animal but I'm getting worried about the way Blair is moving the UK towards a right wing police state.

Arrests using terror acts of people shouting rubbish at a party conference and ID cards forced on us.
Sound like Adolf has returned. Wonder if he will start burning books next.

back in 1997, we rejoiced, finally after eighteen years of vile tory rule, we were going to be born anew, and things could only get better......

now the cold grey light of the new dawn shows us what fools we were, the promises that turned all to quickly to lies, the stance moving ever onward to the right, and our freedoms eroded day by day.

we waited too long, the time to act passed us by, and now to attempt to raise a voice against what we believe is wrong, could result in the loss of our liberty. If however, enough people speak, loudly and for long enough, there is still hope.

What a bizarre situation brought about by years of the creeping silent cancer of liberalism in every institution, home and thought.

By allowing the upturn of a once solid society to embrace 'freedoms' for all we now have the ironic reversal that no has any real human rights.

Reap what ye sow. :thumbsup:

I think Mark Thomas hit the nail on the head:

Never were wiser words said.