UK: Theresa May seeks to outlaw Christian street preachers
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November 11, 2013
This Government is fast becoming the most authoritarian threat to our liberties of the modern era. Not content with reintroducing state regulation of the press, the Home Secretary Theresa May is intent on outlawing anything that people may find 'annoying'.
The judicious John Bingham writes in the Telegraph: Christian preachers, buskers and peaceful protesters could effectively be driven off the streets under draconian new powers designed to clamp on anyone deemed "annoying", according to a former Director of Public Prosecutions.
Lord Macdonald QC said Theresa May, the Home Secretary's plans for a new civil injunctions to replace Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) amount to "gross state interference" with people's private lives and basic freedoms.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
http://www.archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/
November 11, 2013
This Government is fast becoming the most authoritarian threat to our liberties of the modern era. Not content with reintroducing state regulation of the press, the Home Secretary Theresa May is intent on outlawing anything that people may find 'annoying'.The judicious John Bingham writes in the Telegraph: Christian preachers, buskers and peaceful protesters could effectively be driven off the streets under draconian new powers designed to clamp on anyone deemed "annoying", according to a former Director of Public Prosecutions.
Lord Macdonald QC said Theresa May, the Home Secretary's plans for a new civil injunctions to replace Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) amount to "gross state interference" with people's private lives and basic freedoms.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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