What country has just sentenced a man to eight months in prison for wearing an anti-police t-shirt, and another man to three months in prison for telling an “abhorrent” joke on Facebook? Iran, perhaps? China? No, it’s Britain.
Something has gone horribly wrong in Britain in recent years. The birthplace of John Milton (“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience”), and John Stuart Mill (“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service”), has become a cesspit of censoriousness.
The frequency with which the police and legal system now throw into jail anyone judged to have committed a “speech crime” is alarming.
The British people will find that officials can harass them and eat out their substance even if those officials are from their own city rather than sent across the pond.
The British people might want to get a quill and paper out, before it is too late. It's tough enough to defend rights that are written in a constitution. What chance do they think they'll have when they aren't codified?
