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A Boring Dystopia
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Is it Illegal to say
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I support Palestine Action."
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In the US don’t judges get to put on their reasonable person hat and see through little loopholes sometimes (obviously not always)?
Wonder about the UK, point is I’d only play around if I weren’t afraid of prison (I’m not strong enough to become a martyr for much of anything, pretty weak)
Back in the time after 9:11 they (the red coloured torys) passed some draconian anti-terror laws in the UK (well at least in England and Wales, I'm not so sure about Scotland and Norniron), basically no habeas corpus if the word "terrorism" is involved.
They were exactly worried that judges might put on a 'reasonable person' wig, or do something even more damaging to the free world like ask to see some evidence.
Flashback to...
(couldn't get piped to load search results :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmiKenqLVAU )