This is like the thing where they couldn’t ban the newspaper in Germany. It’s just too dumb, the court has no case, so they run this woman through the ringer and ruin her life then they’re like “yeah okay, whatever, just go.”

European Conservative:

Labour prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has launched an assault on free speech, and is planning also to go after ‘thought crime.’

So campaigners were pleased on Monday morning to see this fundamental freedom come out on top, at least in one case.

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a Christian charity volunteer, was arrested twice (in 2022 and 2023) for praying silently outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham—both times while the Conservative Party was in office. On the second occasion, Vaughan-Spruce was surrounded by police officers, with one telling her:

“You’ve said you’re engaging in prayer, which is the offence.”

Campaigners said she was searched, including through her hair, and later charged and prosecuted, even though she hadn’t expressed any opinion.

Both cases have since been dropped, and reports this morning, on August 19th, reveal that Vaughan-Spruce has received a £13,000 (€15,270) payout and an apology from West Midlands Police.

The New Culture Forum has hailed this as “a rare victory for common sense.”

That’s what they want you to think.

Britain is not an easy place to be a Christian in

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Adam Smith-Connor, caught in the act

You want to know who is holding back the utopia in Britain?

Washington Times:

Authorities in Bournemouth, England, have criminally charged a British army veteran for praying silently while standing in a buffer zone outside an abortion clinic, his attorneys said Friday.

The case is the latest in a string of prosecutions critics have dubbed “thoughtcrimes” where people standing silently near abortion clinics are charged with offenses, even if the incidents occur when the facilities are closed.

Adam Smith-Connor, a medical professional who spent 20 years in the army reserves, will face magistrates on Aug. 9 and is expected to plead not guilty on charges of violating a Public Spaces Protection Order that bans prayer within a buffer zone as a means of expressing approval or disapproval of abortion.

This is freedom and democracy

He said he was silently praying for the loss of a son years earlier, a child lost in an abortion he paid for and whom he named Jacob.

“The decision I made all those years ago now grieves me deeply,” Mr. Smith-Connor said in a statement. “I was praying also for those contemplating abortion, especially those in vulnerable situations who believe abortion is their ‘only choice.’ It isn’t for the authorities to determine the contents of my thoughts on this matter, on a public street.”

The Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council declined to comment on the Smith-Connor case.

Mr. Smith-Connor was fined 100 pounds, or about $127, last Dec. 13 for the offense, which took place about a month earlier. On May 12, the council issued its charge against Mr. Smith-Connor but did not notify him of the charges until July 19, according to ADF UK, the British branch of Alliance Defending Freedom.

While legally required to notify the subject of charges “as soon as possible,” the BCP Council did not contact Mr. Smith-Connor nor bring him in for questioning before notifying him of the charges. An ADF UK spokesperson said the delay could be grounds for the court to dismiss the case.

“In permitting the prosecution of silent prayer, we are sailing into dangerous waters regarding human rights protections in the UK,” said Jeremiah Igunnubole, an ADF UK legal counsel who represents Mr. Smith-Connor.

Mr. Igunnubole said that having created and enforced the buffer zone at the Bournemouth clinic, the BCP Council is now pressing charges, “making the council the judge, jury and executioner.”

“The Code for Crown Prosecutors requires prosecutors to be evenhanded in their approach to every case, and to protect the rights of suspects and defendants – a duty which has been ignored at every stage by the Council, which has not only shown itself to be incapable of impartiality but also failed to grasp the gravity of inaugurating thoughtcrime trials in the UK,” he said.

Silently praying for infants that are being sacrificed to Satan is a rising problem in the UK.

Basically, everything else is headed straight for a utopia, but these people are holding everyone back.