At the Conservative Party conference today – and to great support from the floor – British home secretary Theresa May announced party plans for sweeping new powers.
The measures, which would become government policy if the party wins the next election, include new Extremist Disruption Orders. These would see certain individuals restricted in their movements, barred from speaking at public events and forced to have social media posts approved in advance by the police.
Also on the table are new banning orders against currently-legal groups: “extremist groups that fall short of the existing laws relating to terrorism,” said May, suggesting hard-line Islamic groups and neo-Nazis as targets. The orders would, like those used against Sinn Fein and the IRA in the 1980s, deny access to broadcast media to those deemed to be seeking to disrupt the democratic process. The internet would be out of bounds too.
“You don’t just get the freedom to live how you choose to live. You have to respect other people’s right to do so too,” she said. “And you have to respect British values and institutions. The rule of law. Democracy. Equality. Free speech. And respect for minorities.”
We’ll leave, for now, the jaw-dropping irony of citing freedom of speech when announcing measures to gag people. We’ll leave the fact that the UK already has laws prohibiting incitement to violence and hatred – as well as Terrorism Investigation and Prevention Measures (TIPMs), imposing electronic tagging and travel restrictions. Let’s focus, instead, on that interesting term, “extremism”.
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The government already has a National Extremist Database, covering around 2,500 people – many of whom have never been so much as charged with a crime. Indeed, the database even includes, it emerged earlier this year, Green party peer Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb.
Now, though, the Conservative party wants to expand even this catch-all list to include anyone that ministers “reasonably believe” simply “risks” causing harassment, alarm or distress. And, as former shadow home secretary David Davis pointed out to the FT this afternoon, this definition could apply to most journalists.
Civil liberties groups, naturally, are horrified at the Conservative proposals.
“We were told that the National Extremist Database would contain details of those who posed a nations security, yet we know members of the public who have done little more than organise meetings on environmental issues are on the database,” says Emma Carr of Big Brother Watch.
“In a democratic country, it is wholly wrong for people to be labelled an ‘extremist’ and face having major restrictions placed on their freedom without facing a due legal process and a transparent and accountable system.”
It’s not the first time that May has attempted to push through similar laws – indeed, she complained in her speech today about the way coalition partner the Liberal Democrats “torpedoed” the Communications Data Bill two years ago. She’s clearly pretty determined.
Over the last couple of days, we’ve been witnessing the way in which the Chinese government is censoring anybody attempting to discuss the current protests in Hong Kong. Those protesters, let’s not forget, are demanding democracy. It’s worth remembering that we do, still, have that in the UK – and there’s an election coming next year at which we can prove it.
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The Zionist-plutocracy can't withstand truth, so they seek to outlaw it. Let the battle begin. Whites will never submit to System Whore tyranny - never.
