by Anura Guruge
on September 12, 2022
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Click here for the U.K. ‘Daily Mail’ article.
I, alas, am NOT that au fait with the details BUT we do (& I know that for a fact) still have a ‘Freedom of Expression RIGHT‘.
And, alas, we also have the catch-all ‘disturbing the peace’ — & in this case applied in connection with the ‘sacred’ ‘Royal Mile’.
But, I am sure it is NOT right. There will be an outcry (I hope) & there will be outrage.
We are a fiercely democratic nation; fiercely democratic people.
You should be able to expression your opinion. He didn’t say anything vulgar. Just an opinion.
I am distraught.
This is MY BRITAIN. Man, during my College days, IF this was the bar, I would still be in prison! I led a famous march through Swansea, with a poster of a topless Margaret Thatcher, sporting three boobs, with a caption ‘Margaret makes another boob‘. I was accompanied on the march by a police inspector. I thought he was a traffic warden. I called him as such. He never corrected me. He only said he would arrest me ‘if you or any of those behind you cause trouble‘. He didn’t define trouble. We were not arrested.
Come ON. This is Britain. Not Russia or Sri Lanka!
