| > now have a third category of “legal but harmful” I'm sorry but the police always have had that. Again, ASBOs, public order offences, "please move along now", town dispersal orders. Specifically ASBOs give the police the power to stop someone doing almost any action, the courts have deemed antisocial. A good example of that is street preachers being stopped from using megaphones, which must have happened as early as ~2005 > which has resulted in real door knocks from the OSA, I'm not aware of any cases yet? > This is subject to political outlook and therefore as “loosey goosey” as it gets. The law is always subject to political outlook. Even a constitution is no match for a concerted effort to undermine it. For example: article 124/125 of the 1936 USSR constitution allowed freedom of press, religion and the right to gather. Look, unless we get someone extreme in power, and they are uniquely competent, they we are mostly safe. What will change that is the steady drip drip drip, of both economic hardship, and a willing medium to blame that on minorities. So 2028 is around the time that jenrick will attempt to lock us all up. |
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/31/kent-police-20k-...
> Look, unless we get someone extreme in power, and they are uniquely competent, they we are mostly safe. What will change that is the steady drip drip drip, of both economic hardship, and a willing medium to blame that on minorities. So 2028 is around the time that jenrick will attempt to lock us all up.
Sigh, I was half expecting drivel like that.