Britain Quits the ‘Free World’ |
Photo by Avery Evans
Cambridge, UK— The United Kingdom just leapfrogged the US to become the leading country in the so-called “Free World” to abandon its much-touted tradition of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, along with the right to protest.
The move to abandon what in the US is popularly known as First Amendment rights actually came a few days ago when the both houses of Parliament, led by the Labour Party and Prime Minister Keir Starmer (ironically a former human rights attorney, and later the government’s chief prosecutor, where he spent years dutifully trying to help the US extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges) voted to declare the protest group Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organization. This heavily Zionist-lobbied decision was taken following a protest action by Palestine Action in which some of its members painted slogans in red spray paint on two RAF aircraft.
Although the “damage’ the planes was estimated rather absurdly by local police to have been £7 million (about $9,5 million), the spray-paint stunt was really just an act (however costly to erase) of non-violent vandalism. Calling it a “terrorist act” marks a draconian expansion of Britain’s Terror Act.
Enacted in July 2000, that act defines terrorism as any political action that:
(a) involves serious violence against a person,
(b) involves serious damage to property,
(c) endangers a person’s life, other than that of the person committing the action,
(d) creates a serious........