Brickbat: Third Time's the Charm?

Pro-life activist Isabel Vaughan-Spruce is under police investigation for a third time after silently praying outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham, England. The police investigation comes despite two previous arrests for the same thing that resulted in a settlement in her favor and a formal apology from the police. British law bans activities intended to influence or cause distress within a "buffer zone" around abortion clinics. Vaughan-Spruce, who is being supported by the legal group Alliance Defending Freedom International, argues that silently praying is not a criminal offense and that everyone has a right to freedom of thought. The police have asked prosecutors to decide if there is enough evidence to charge her.

Comments

[Chumby]

Isabel has turned the selfish stupidity of the anti-life death cult into a monetized cottage industry.

And again, using a stock photo for the image when a specific person is involved (and the photo isn’t of them) seems wrong. Perhaps generic coat hangers and a shopvac would be fine but Vaughan-Spruce does not look like the woman praying.

[SQRLSY]

Reason is almost totally broke and can't afford to pay rights to photographers and paparazzi, to use the real thing. Why broke? 'Cause of blokes (like YOU!) cuntstantly polluting the cumments with hate, Trump-worshit, and Reason-back-stabbing, driving away advertisers and magazine buyers. YOU, Papa-NAZI, pay the paparazzi so that we can see the REAL thing, and then get back to us! Or snot! But quit Your PervFected, Mind-Infected bitching, if You're snot paying! Everyone's a critic; few actually help out! Find us a link to a photo of this woman, if Ye are a SOOOO PervFectly Cuntcerned Cuntcern-Troll!

Relevant is a quote by PJ O’Rourke... Ass he said, “Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Unread.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Was in a grey box for me, easy to leave unread.

[SQRLSY]

Ignorance is strength, Cumrade! Be Ye therefor PROUD of Yer PervFected ignorance! Now the GOOD folks are having a book-burning at high noon, in front of the pubic library. Are ye cumming… Or are ye with the unpatriotic eggheads and the left-tits?

[Chumby]

Me too

[SQRLSY]

Hey Don't look at me!...
PLEASE try to work with me here, for Your Own PervFected Good!

I’m trying my VERY best to work my spot on the Nobel Committee, to get You PervFectly nominated! That would be a HUGE boost to Your PervFected Self-Esteem, yes? Imagine; just mentally “manifest” this… “Don't look at me” with a NOBEL PRIZE!!!

Now I do understand that “You ARE PervFected YOU, and, twat ELSE could ANYONE expect of You?” I GOT that! And I DO understand that You and Your Pervfected teachers and parents and nannies and ninnies and Government Almighty and all, have ALL done their (duly certified and credentialed) VERY BEST to inflate Your PervFected Self-Esteem!!!! Trust me, please… I WILL point ALL of this out to the Nobel Committee!!!

Butt… Now PLEASE help me out here, ass I try to help YOU help Yourself to a Nobel Prize… Besides Your Pervfected Self-Esteem, and Your Obliviously Exquisite Talents at SNOT reading the writings of inferior and possibly illegal sub-humans… Keep in mind that this isn’t me, skeptically asking, shit is the Nobel Committee, those Doubting Thomases… Twat ELSE have Ye PervFectly Accumplished, that Ye should PervFectly Deserve a Nobel Prize?

[LIBtranslator]

Superstitious brainwashing made Clayton Bigsby into a white supremacist, so small wonder biological females can be conditioned into girl-enslavers eager to force other women into the involuntary servitude of coerced reproduction--this in a day and age in which the right to say no to rape is legally recognized and enforced even in the Confederate South! The 1972 LP plank and electoral vote that repealed Comstock enslavement came at a time when the ERA was bogged down in hopes of the deadline killing it. That 1973 Supreme court decision was trashed by Trump's nationalsocialist court-packing. We should look again at repealing 11A do 9A can be enforced in lower courts.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Authentic Frontier Gibberish

At least a 21st Century reference leads it off, about a fictional person that has nothing to do with religion

[Mickey Rat]

The stock photo is a young woman of East Asian ethnicity, while the real person is an old woman of British ethnicity.

[mad.casual]

Darn, I was hoping for an anti-policing brickbat. I've probably watched the "I'm an A-[door slam]." (@1:25) part of this clip about 15 times and it doesn't stop being funny.

The epilogue of 'the friend of the AG' watching the AG get arrested and then, like your average crack head, spazzing out like that's somehow going to stop the arrest or that being the friend of the AG makes this an injustice is some fine, butter cream icing on the whole cake.

[Mickey Rat]

London Police Chief supporting policing non-crime hate incidents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu6EPYjEUbQ

[mad.casual]

For sarcasmic -

Police friend's comment: Get in loser, we're going to jail!

[Stupid Government Tricks]

I don't think that link goes to what you intended.

[mad.casual]

Ugh, yeah. [sniffs coffee, drinks]

That said, do you happen to know which Reason contributor is in the clip I linked? I could stand to see more of her.

[Neutral not Neutered]

I'm an AG, you won't arrest me! LOL Daughter was funnier, but the husband, I am right here babe, WTF!

[mad.casual]

WTF

IDK. I personally wouldn't have gotten arrested in this situation but there are certainly situations where I would choose to get arrested as well and situations where I might say something like that to try and talk her down. Dude's having visions of being on the business end of a "AND YOU JUST STOOD THERE!" screaming session, even though he's right, in the near future.

"Never stick it in crazy (or her daughter)." is sometimes more of an aspirational statement.

[Stuck in California]

OK, I just saw some random reason article.

But I know the clip you meant to post, and I was struck by how the "I'm an AG" was demanding they turn off their body cams, yet at the end of the video I watched the other chick was struggling and then screaming "RAPE! RAAAPE! RAPE! " as they were throwing her in the back of the police truck.

Yeah, definitely not the way to deescelate, or get the police on your side.

That video tickled all the schadenfreude nerves, seeing the epitome of the entitled cunt get her comeuppance. Hope for further vengeance, too, though I wonder if all charges get dropped as soon as the media cycle moves on.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

No, I thought that 5 second clip was from a movie.

[mad.casual]

Oh, the "Get in loser" clip is from Mean Girls and that was the intentional reference for "I once overheard a cop say..." sarcasmic.

The "this clip" link mistakenly points to a Reason contributor that I don't recognize.

[Fist of Etiquette]

British law bans activities intended to influence or cause distress within a "buffer zone" around abortion clinics.

Arresting someone for a thought crime seems like it would cause distress.

[LIBtranslator]

It's a Catch-22. Mystical brainwashing is "subsidized" by selective immunity from taxation and special constitutional clauses. Army of God zombies act on this by bombing Atlanta and killing physicians Stateside, while terror knifings are common protests in gun-banning Europe. Loudly begging invisible Empires or ghosts to enslave women is a thing because race suicide fanatics usurp the narrative so as to strip pregnant women of individual rights. Where women cannot be enslaved, few pharisees bother to screech for killing a pregnant percentage of them in State coercing facilities. Observe that the number of men killed by coerced childbirth is still zero.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Gobbledy Gook

[MollyGodiva]

This should be an easy case. She is not being prosecuted for praying, that would of course be illegal. She is being prosecuted for influencing and cause distress to patients by appearing that she is praying. Also, if they are going to have a buffer zone around clinics, it is easier to just ban everyone other then patients and staff from that zone, no matter what they are doing.

[Neutral not Neutered]

So if she was standing drinking a latte and scratching her ass muttering yummy she could also be arrested because you would find that distressful?

WTF is wrong with you?

[Stupid Government Tricks]

MollyGodiva misses the uni-supplied safe space. They took away her teddy bear!

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Where to begin….

[SQRLSY]

Matthew 6:6
In Matthew 6:6, Jesus instructs His followers to "go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen." This verse emphasizes the importance of private prayer and the unseen nature of God's understanding. It suggests that God sees and rewards those who pray in secret, highlighting the significance of sincere and private devotion. The verse serves as a reminder to focus on spiritual matters and to seek God's guidance without external distractions.

SQRLSY comment, Christ's supposed followers (show-offs) know MUCH better than Jesus knew!

I AM PRAYING!!! EVERYONE LOOK AND ADMIRE!!!!

[LIBtranslator]

When one of these Trilbys blows something up, the arresting officers do not allow clone brainwashees to crowd into the interrogation room and chant imprecations. Then again, baby-saving girl-enslaver Robert Dear was given immunity from prosecution after gunning down a cop and civilians on advice of his invisible buddy Jesus. So the outcome--immunity and murderers living at taxpayer expense--is there. The 14th Amendment made women unpersons by stipulating "male." 13A and 15A contained no such flaw but political appointees "interpreted" in the invisible stipulation so women and blacks could not vote against their own coercion. Pregnant women are thus Siamese twins vulnerable to Christian National Socialist coercion because Comstock and "race suicide."

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

His hovercraft is full of eels

[Eeyore]

What if I go to England and stand outside a clinic and pray for more dead babies? Will that still be a crime? "But I wasn't praying for death your honor".

[Neutral not Neutered]

You mean , "But I was praying for death your honor, I support the clinic and pro choice, I am not pro life."

[LIBtranslator]

Ah. The trap caught another girl-bullying Jesus Caucus nazi Trumpanzee infiltrating the Reason comentariat. Thank goodness for the moot lewser button.

[mad.casual]

'His honor': [narrows gaze] Any death or half-Briton, rape-baby death?