State of civil liberties in the UK ? call an MP a coward and face jail
by Tom Pride
(not satire - it's the UK today)
I've written before about how woeful the state of civil liberties is in the UK.
This simple chart also illustrates how bad it's got:
number-of-days-in-detention
And now we see a member of the public is facing jail time for calling a Tory MP a coward:
Brighton man faces jail for calling Hove MP Mike Weatherley 'coward'
And this is what happens when try to photograph or video a police officer in the UK:
Arrested for filming police officers - video
As opposed to when you try to do it in Sweden:
What happens When You Try To Film The Police Is Sweden
I rest my case.
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High level child abuse cover-up? Why has Theresa May barred a US journalist from the UK?
If you tried the Turkish ?standing? protest in the UK ? you?d be arrested for obstruction
Labour Should Be The Party of Civil Liberties
This is what you get when you dare to question a tabloid journalist in the UK
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The government?s allowing our water, gas and electricity to be sold to the Chinese and no-one seems to be noticing
Guess which country?s security services are monitoring Skype more than any other in the world
It was the police ? not the BBC ? who wrongly named Lord McAlpine in abuse allegations
Are McAlpine?s lawyers breaking the solicitors? code of practice?
Police raid activist?s home for ?criminal? posts on Facebook. China? No ? Wales
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