“Symon Hill is a part-time history teacher and activist for the radical pacifist campaign group the Peace Pledge Union. He grew up in the English Midlands, where his mother was a housekeeper for a rich family.
“‘We lived in a sort of servants’ cottage in the grounds, and so I saw some sort of microcosm of inequality right in front of me,’ he says …
“In his late teens, Symon became a Christian and was influenced by liberation theology and radical interpretations of Christianity …
“‘Within Christianity . . . there’s also a strong anti-monarchy tradition,’ he explains.
“‘Early Christians effectively broke the law every day by refusing to worship the Roman emperor. When Charles I was convicted of treason, in 1649, those who opposed him often justified their opposition on Christian grounds, and many of them were parts of the same sort of traditions’ …
“Symon was leaving church as the proclamation [ceremony for King Charles II] was due to happen.
“‘I felt really upset and angry to see it. You’ve got these dignitaries in there with sort of ceremonial and almost medieval robes standing on a platform next to military leaders and the Bishop of Oxford and other bigwigs …
“‘They proclaimed Charles to be our only and rightful liege lord.
“‘I was thinking, is this how we announce a new head of state in the twenty-first century? …
“‘I was appalled that we were just being told to accept this with no debate or anything, so I called out “Who elected him?”’ …
“Only when they [police] were driving Symon home, as he was handcuffed in the back of a police van, was he told he’d been arrested under the new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act.
“However, later that evening, when the Guardian asked Thames Valley Police for a comment on his arrest, they said he’d been arrested under the Public Order Act 1986 instead …”
“There have been people opposing the monarchy as a form of government since it was introduced in the Middle Ages … So, when did republicanism become something you could be arrested for?
“The short answer is in April this year, when the Government passed a new law that gravely restricts our right to protest.
“The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act of 2022 gives police greater power to arrest protesters, lowering the bar for what can be classed as a serious offence while simultaneously punishing protesters more harshly.
“Most concerning of all is the fact that the wording of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act enables the police to determine themselves what kind of protest can amount to an arrest, and the Government has the option to unilaterally change the wording of the act to widen the definition of what constitutes a ‘serious disruption’” …
Have Satanists returned to torment this picture postcard village? Locals fear sun-dappled New Forest spot is being targeted again - three years after horrific attacks where livestock were daubed with an ancient Pagan symbol and the sign of the devil
“On a sunny December morning, the teeny village of Bramshaw in the New Forest couldn't look more appealing.”
Wonder how NSPCC campaigner and scourge of Elm Guest House paedophiles Sir Jimmy Savile and Nicholas Fairbairn, aka Dame Esther Rantzen, will be spending Christmas at her home Blood Oaks, by Wych Green, in BRAMSHAW?
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King Charles III: Man charged over comments made at proclamation ceremony
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* What words can he have possibly have spoken that warrant a criminal charge being brought? How mysterious.
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ReplyDelete“Symon Hill is a part-time history teacher and activist for the radical pacifist campaign group the Peace Pledge Union. He grew up in the English Midlands, where his mother was a housekeeper for a rich family.
“‘We lived in a sort of servants’ cottage in the grounds, and so I saw some sort of microcosm of inequality right in front of me,’ he says …
“In his late teens, Symon became a Christian and was influenced by liberation theology and radical interpretations of Christianity …
“‘Within Christianity . . . there’s also a strong anti-monarchy tradition,’ he explains.
“‘Early Christians effectively broke the law every day by refusing to worship the Roman emperor. When Charles I was convicted of treason, in 1649, those who opposed him often justified their opposition on Christian grounds, and many of them were parts of the same sort of traditions’ …
“Symon was leaving church as the proclamation [ceremony for King Charles II] was due to happen.
“‘I felt really upset and angry to see it. You’ve got these dignitaries in there with sort of ceremonial and almost medieval robes standing on a platform next to military leaders and the Bishop of Oxford and other bigwigs …
“‘They proclaimed Charles to be our only and rightful liege lord.
“‘I was thinking, is this how we announce a new head of state in the twenty-first century? …
“‘I was appalled that we were just being told to accept this with no debate or anything, so I called out “Who elected him?”’ …
“Only when they [police] were driving Symon home, as he was handcuffed in the back of a police van, was he told he’d been arrested under the new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act.
“However, later that evening, when the Guardian asked Thames Valley Police for a comment on his arrest, they said he’d been arrested under the Public Order Act 1986 instead …”
https://jacobin.com/2022/09/king-charles-queen-elizabeth-coronation-protest-arrest
“There have been people opposing the monarchy as a form of government since it was introduced in the Middle Ages … So, when did republicanism become something you could be arrested for?
ReplyDelete“The short answer is in April this year, when the Government passed a new law that gravely restricts our right to protest.
“The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act of 2022 gives police greater power to arrest protesters, lowering the bar for what can be classed as a serious offence while simultaneously punishing protesters more harshly.
“Most concerning of all is the fact that the wording of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act enables the police to determine themselves what kind of protest can amount to an arrest, and the Government has the option to unilaterally change the wording of the act to widen the definition of what constitutes a ‘serious disruption’” …
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/culture-news/a41314789/why-were-anti-monarchy-protestors-arrested/
Countries ranked by friendliness for foreigners who go to live there
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1 - Mexico
2 - Indonesia
Also prominent in the top 10 are Philippines, Brazil, Oman, Kenya, Portugal, Taiwan, Vietnam, Spain, Thailand
Chart with top 10 groups in upper part of page ... longer list with full rankings down to row 52 at the bottom
https://www.internations.org/expat-insider/2022/ease-of-settling-in-index-40244
Have Satanists returned to torment this picture postcard village? Locals fear sun-dappled New Forest spot is being targeted again - three years after horrific attacks where livestock were daubed with an ancient Pagan symbol and the sign of the devil
ReplyDelete“On a sunny December morning, the teeny village of Bramshaw in the New Forest couldn't look more appealing.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11570811/Locals-fear-sun-dappled-New-Forest-spot-targeted-three-years-horrific-attacks.html
Wonder how NSPCC campaigner and scourge of Elm Guest House paedophiles Sir Jimmy Savile and Nicholas Fairbairn, aka Dame Esther Rantzen, will be spending Christmas at her home Blood Oaks, by Wych Green, in BRAMSHAW?
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