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LifestreamCharity Sweet, a British anti-war activist, found herself being questioned under the SOCPA … ostensibly for prominently reading the Independent
It is apparently now suspicious to read a newspaper in Great Britain. That’s at least one conclusion drawn from the experience of an anti-Iraq war protester in London.According to a London Independent story, Charity Sweet, a 40-year-old mother of three, was holding a copy of that very newspaper, containing a reprint of a Vanity Fair article that “accused the Blair Government of a sustained erosion of civil liberties.” Possession of the original article, and the magazine it appeared in, had led to the arrest of one of Sweet’s fellow protesters in early June, under charges of violating the “Serious and Organized Crime Act.”
The reprint in the Independent carried the banner-headline, “Warning: if you read this newspaper you may be arrested under the Government’s anti-terror laws.” Ms. Sweet, according to the article, had merely been sitting and eating a sandwich, while reading that day’s edition of the Independent, with a sign around her neck “warning against bullying,” A Scotland Yard officer approached and questioned her.
Although he did not arrest or charge her, he did issue her a form which contained as the reason for being stopped, “Sitting outside D Street with Notification Around Neck about Bullying. And Reading Today’s Independent.”
Indymedia UK has the scanned the stop and search and notification as well as more activism that could actually count as demonstration.
Just goes to prove that the filth in the UK are seriously out of control. Because they bleat ‘terrorism’ every time their actions are questioned it somehow excuses their excesses under the ‘if you not for us, your a terrorist supporter’ rule so prevalent now in the UK and of course perfected by GW in the US.
The terrorism acts are so widely drawn so that every person of reading age can be arrested under the ‘materials likely to be of aid in the preparation of a terrorist act’. So that covers Travel Guides, Telephones, computers, pda, mobile phones and copies of the newspapers especially ones that have a page details the movements of Brenda, Phil the Greek and their dysfunctional brats.
The comparison of Blair to Mugabe comes closer each day e.g. special lanes on highways (M4 ‘buslane’ - not used much by buses but an awful lot by government ministers’), road closures to allow him to pass (Whitehall is closed every Wednesday when parliament sits to allow him to travel by bulletproof car the 400 yards to parliament). Exclusion zones around parliament for protesting, early morning arrests of dissidents, bullying of the press, intervention in state television etc…. all very Mugabe like.