Brickbat: Like Being Back in School

Six U.K. police officers arrested Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine at their home in Hertfordshire after they complained about their disabled daughter's primary school in a WhatsApp group and through emails. The couple, upset over the school's headteacher recruitment process and their ban from the premises, were detained for 11 hours on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications, leaving their 3-year-old daughter crying as they were taken away. The school had reported their actions to the police, claiming the messages and emails were upsetting to staff, but after a 5-week investigation, Hertfordshire Police found insufficient evidence and took no further action.

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[Vernon Depner]

In what way is this fascist country our "ally" anymore? What do we have in common with them?

[AT]

Islam gon' Islam.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"BUT AFTER A 5-WEEK INVESTIGATION"

[AT]

They were probably overwhelmed by the sheer number of people they had to arrest and prosecute for silently praying in a language that's not arabic.

[Jerry B.]

And Democrats take notes.

[Thought about __ all my life]

England is going over the cliff just as France is. We do our part against this by acting as Trump is acting "endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights"
Even since the gay, abortion, and LIbertarians did their best to destroy freedom of religion around the world, this all followed logically

I must quote Pope Benedict and the Father of the EU on this
ROBERT SCHUMAN Schuman said: ‘Democracy will either be Christian or it will not be. An anti-Christian democracy will be a parody which will sink into tyranny or into anarchy.’

POPE BENEDICT In a forum with philosopher Jürgen Habermas, Ratzinger argued that the two great cultures of the West are the culture of Christian faith and that of secular rationality, both rooted in Christianity.

Notice: The nominalism , the murderous lack of Freedom of Religion, and the great strains of rejection of human rights will end badly for Europe. Aayan Hirsi Ali warned us and no one knows better both Islam and atheism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD213jZzwIY

Ayaan Hirsi Ali , well-known ExMuslim Atheist now follows Jesus

[Randy Sax]

Do I have to believe in your imaginary friend to not like big government? Seems a little silly to me.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Seems more like a conflict of interest.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/29/the-police-have-become-the-rent-a-goons-of-the-easily-offended/

What happened to Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine at their home in Borehamwood in January is so absurdly authoritarian, so redolent of genuine tyranny, it’s almost like I made it up. It’s almost too perfect an encapsulation of the British constabulary’s zealous embrace of the new censorship. All it’s missing is a misgendering.

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Last month, we learned a woman in Stockport had been visited by Greater Manchester’s finest for daring to criticise her local Labour councillor on Facebook.

A few days after that incident, our prime minister, with a straight face, sat in the Oval Office and insisted – contrary to the jibes of US vice-president JD Vance – that free speech is in rude health in the United Kingdom. ‘We’ve had free speech for a very long time, it will last a long time, and we are very proud of that’, warbled Keir Starmer.

I wonder what he thinks bad looks like. Investigating all of Labour’s critics? A Telescreen in every living room? Gulags? If you don’t think we have a free-speech crisis in this country, you need your thinking checked.