Red Light Situation
Whatever you believe about the origins of Covid and the vaxigenation programme, it all amounts to more fear and more control. As we were all born, we're all going to die - don't fear it. “Get a life, get a death, but fuck get out of the cage!
Anyone who has ever been to, or witnessed a protest, in the UK knows that the police are not there acting as neutral facilitators of democratic rights. Nonetheless, the already illiberal police powers were further extended under cover of COVID and the strict lockdown laws. The government’s pursuit of power and control resulted in increasing attempts to suppress, and censor dissenting voices and deter protests by using aggressive tactics and arrests of protesters who were simply exercising their rights.
However, under cover of COVID the police have violated our rights set out in the European Court of Human Rights –( ECHR) Articles 9, 10 and 11 which protect the right to manifest a religion or belief, to freedom of expression and to freedom of assembly and association respectively. Together, these Articles form the basis of an individual’s right to participate in peaceful protest. In particular, the ECHR Article 11 protects the right to protest in a peaceful way including static protests, marches, parades and processions, demonstrations and rallies.
The Cides believe that the Police, Crime and sentencing Bill will give the police an unwarranted and dangerous level of control. Through the government’s push for more control and power, the police are being utilised to silence dissenting voices and criminalise non-criminal acts. Protests are democratic and are a human right. The consequences of preventing them could result in a dictatorship and tyrannical governance.
Is the police bill a step further towards tyranny?
The Cides believe that the Police, Crime and sentencing Bill will give the police an unwarranted and dangerous level of control. Through the government’s push for more control and power, the police are being utilised to silence dissenting voices and criminalise non-criminal acts. Protests are democratic and are a human right. The consequences of preventing them could result in a dictatorship and tyrannical governance.
