Two critical items on the kind of authoritarianism we have been, and continue to live under

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First, British police are told they don’t really have the right to treat government guidance for Corona restrictions as law, as it is not. The real shame here of course is the people who submit to irrational and illegal authority, be it police or worse, in Canada, bylaw officers who illegally demand names and identification and issue obscene fines to people for sitting alone on a bench or playing with a metal detector in a park.

From The Manchester Evening News:

Police have been told they have “no powers” to enforce two-metre social distancing in England.

 

The claim comes as from today, people will be allowed to spend an unlimited amount of time in parks and other outdoor public spaces, where they can keep two metres apart from others who are not part of their household.

As well as that, those who are unable to work from home have been encouraged to return to the workplace if it is open – causing busy commutes.

 

But fresh guidelines issued by the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council urges officers to only enforce what is written in law and that “government guidance is not enforceable, for example two-metre distancing, avoiding public transport or the wearing of face coverings in enclosed spaces”.

 

The advice, set out in a document published on Wednesday after being sent out to forces on Tuesday night, follows updated coronavirus legislation coming into force.

Neither the original Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 from March 26 nor the amended enacted at 12.01am on Wednesday address social distancing specifically, so keeping two metres (6ft) apart in certain circumstances is not a legal requirement.

Last weekend, Greater Manchester Police had to deal with ‘the busiest weekend since lockdown began’ as people celebrated VE Day.

Local police responded to 1,714 reports of parties or gatherings that allegedly broke lockdown rules.

The force also received 5,020 calls to 999 between Friday and Saturday, a third higher than the weekend before, and 4,705 calls to the non-emergency 101 number, up 16 per cent.

Those people who called in to report their neighbours should really look for a nice cell in North Korea.

Meanwhile, Germany, not to be outdone by Ottawa or Michigan, has made it a prison worthy offence to even try and damage an EU flag.

Really. From the BBC:

Burning EU and other flags can now bring German jail term

Germany has made public burning of the EU flag or that of another country punishable by up to three years in jail, classing it as a hate crime.

 

The vote in the Bundestag (parliament) on Thursday makes defiling foreign flags equal to the crime of defiling the German flag.

 

The same applies for the EU anthem, Beethoven’s Ode to Joy theme.

 

The move followed Social Democrat (SPD) complaints about protesters’ burning of the Israeli flag in Berlin in 2017.

Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht, a member of the centre-left SPD, said “burning flags publicly has nothing to do with peaceful protests”. She said it stoked up “hatred, anger and aggression”, and hurt many people’s feelings.

The new law also applies to acts of defilement besides burning, such as publicly ripping a flag up. Public display of the Nazi swastika and other Nazi symbols is already banned in Germany.

 

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has condemned the new law as “excessive interference in free speech and artistic expression”.

 

The act of defiling the Union Flag in the UK is not a crime, but France has made desecration of the tricolour punishable by a fine of up to €7,500 (£6,600; $8,000) or six months in jail.

Interesting how Germany has found a way to protect its socialist symbols but blame the law on the Jews. I wonder how a German leader could ever have thought of that. Also, if a student was learning to play Ode to Joy, admittedly one of, if not the greatest musical work ever written by man, and mangled it in the performance, is that now a political, and not just a musical crime? The EU should never have been allowed to usurp that music. It was not original, it was not written for that purpose, and the author is dead and has no chance to claim the copyright and stop its use for that purpose.

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2 Replies to “Two critical items on the kind of authoritarianism we have been, and continue to live under”

  1. I still have around 200-odd EU-flag Toilet Paper Rolls I ordered from China 6 month back.
    Does that mean, since I’ve been using them ever since, that I’m now considered a “Hate Criminal” in Germany?
    Then so be it, and I’m PROUD of it.
    Not that South Africa extradites “Political Dissidents” to Germany.

    Also I noticed that YouTube has been censoring a term I coined around 3 Years ago describing in 3 words the EUrocrates.
    Every time I use “HOMO PARASITUS BRUSSELENSIS” in a Post, it’s now been deleted almost immediately.

  2. So they pass legislation to protect cloth, meanwhile girls are raped everywhere.