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Free Speech Union Welcomes Court of Appeal Judgment in Landmark Free Speech Case

by Toby Young
20 December 2021 11:51 AM

Harry Miller, the ex-copper who refused to take it lying down when he was told by Humberside Police that retweeting a comic verse about transgendered people would be recorded against his name on the police database as a ‘non-crime hate incident’, has won a tremendous victory today in the Court of Appeal today. (Full judgment here.) The Free Speech Union, which has been supporting Harry, has just issued a press release about the judgment.

The Free Speech Union welcomes today’s landmark judgement from the Court of Appeal that the recording of non-crime hate incidents is an unlawful interference with freedom of expression. As the Court says, the knowledge that such matters are being recorded and stored in a police database is likely to have had a serious “chilling effect” on public debate.

Not only does the recording of non-crime hate incidents violate Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as the Court said, but it is a huge waste of the police’s time.

Between 2014 and 2019, 34 police forces in England and Wales recorded a total of 119,134 non-crime hate incidents, an average of 65 a day. What possible justification can there be for the investigation and recording of ‘non-crimes’ when so many actual crimes go unsolved? Between 2015 and 2021, 964,197 domestic burglary investigations ended without a suspect being identified.

Toby Young, the Free Speech Union’s General Secretary, said: “The Free Speech Union is proud to have played a part in winning this landmark victory, but the lion’s share of the credit must go to Harry Miller. Thanks to his courage and tenacity, we can all rest a little easier in our beds tonight, knowing the police are not about to knock on our doors because we’ve made an inappropriate joke on Twitter. They should be policing our streets, not our tweets.”

A welcome bit of good news in an otherwise bleak pre-Christmas period. If you haven’t already joined the Free Speech Union, you can do so here. And if you want to see Harry talking about why the police have been so eager to follow guidance which, thanks to him, has been declared unlawful, see this clip from a panel discussion hosted by the FSU at this year’s Battle of Ideas.

Harry Miller explains why the police slavishly follow the College of Policing's guidance rather than use their common sense during a panel discussion hosted by the FSU at the Battle of Ideas. pic.twitter.com/e1ZTCb1Av5

— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) December 20, 2021

Stop Press: I further explain the significance of this ruling in a piece for Mail Plus.

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FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago

No surprise – follows right on the Corona Coup and Scamdemic. Keep that momentum going strong.
All planned and orchestrated and a casus belli for ‘more international governance’.
Climate Change nonsense will also be imposed illegally and transnationally via the WEF-UN and the EU (Climate Change protection as a ‘right’).
Neither the WHO or UN is necessary. These are useless self-serving, corrupt, nescient, anti-real science bureaucracies.
That is why the usual cadre of criminals, half wits and globalists love them.
The travesty is that our Parliament willingly signs on to this, the fake news screams its support and the sheeple who applauded the Corona Fascism smile and agree.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  FerdIII

“The travesty is that our Parliament willingly signs on to this”

Exactly. Much as I despise the WHO, they have no real power. It is mainly funded by member states. International law doesn’t mean much. So while the WHO may be pushing this, it’s with the complicity of the UK and most other nations.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Good point it’s the MP,s that give then the power !

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Roy Everett
Roy Everett
1 year ago
Reply to  FerdIII

This comes as no surprise! In the twenty years that I have exchanged correspondence with my succession of MPs (about one letter/response per year) the general impression I get is that MPs are either not interested or intellectually incapable of comprehending what is happening globally regarding politics, sovereignty, economics or the UN/WEF/WHO monsters. On the odd occasion they reply to me, it is just a covering letter from some minor civil servant who is either adept at missing the point and obfuscating, or else just calls me a conspiracy theorist. Soon my impression of the UK Parliament will be stop being that of a jolly good debating society and bar with no influence over the life of UK citizens (the woke CIvil Service does that job) but rather that of a six-hundred strong traitorous gang who deliberately sell the country to China and retire to some idyllic bolt-hole while the country metaphorically burns.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Roy Everett

“To proceed with the current deadline, against the WHO’s own legal requirements, would not just be legally wrong but demonstrate unequivocally that equity and respect for states rights have nothing to do with the WHO’s pandemic agenda.” 

Those of us wise enough to understand what is going on know full well that the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty and revised International Health Regulations have absolutely F. All to do with health. This is simply the first stage of One World Government.

It is sickly amusing that the WHO states that these “treaties” will be “legally binding” although I have made the point numerous times that this is utter bollox, while it currently is going hell for leather to have these scam documents signed, sealed and delivered by May this year while its own legalities can go hang.

A one world health approach to even someone like me, a science illiterate, is complete nonsense and clearly has sod all to do with protecting human health, in fact just the opposite. What is a certainty before 2024 is out is that if this thing is given some sort of approval in May then another Scamdemic or “concern” will be ushered in to being. One hundred an ninety two nations will bow and scrape before the witch doctor wizard that is Dr Tedros.

Nine billion peoples lives at the whim of a genocidal maniac. What a desperately depressing thought. The planet encompanying mayhem that will be unleashed hardly bares thinking about.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Well put , just like Scotland & Canadas latest 1984 hate laws this WHO Con is being rushed in to put the lid on us noisy , nosy oiks permanently & our traitorous MP,s will back it because they don’t care about us !.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

Thanks Freddy.

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AEC
AEC
1 year ago

Thanks for your tenacity in revealing this monstrosity in all its technicolor horror, David. You deserve a very special place in the afterlife, as do Tedros, Farrar, Michie et al if, in their case, of a rather different sort.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  AEC

👍

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

It’s a modern day coup.

Instead of an army of soldiers you have an army of bureaucrats basically taking over the world.

The national bureaucracies are like their affiliates, receiving laws and regulations from the international bodies and implementing them in each country.

Same with climate. The ECHR decides governments need to protect their citizens from climate change or are.otherwise violating human rights. Another bureaucratic unelected body grabbing power from elected representatives. Another coup.

While we sit around talking about these things or literally just trying to live.our daily lives, the bureaucrats are busy every day working away at erecting these laws and regulations around us like the walls of a prison.

We ate totally f***ed.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

I see some silly ladies in Switzerland have now won the right to be “protected from climate change” by their government. This ofcourse will now set the precedent, and all governments (at least in Europe) will now have carte blanche to “protect” us in every which way they fancy. ——–We must have a heat pump, we must have a smart meter, we must only use wind, we must not drive, we must not fly, we must not eat meat and on and on and on———————CO2 is the Eco Socialist bureaucrats dream gas. It allows them to put in place policies they previously could only dream of.

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Myra
Myra
1 year ago

I am not sure this is the right tactic.
Delaying because of procedural issues?
i personally want this wiped off the table completely.
When you read the documents with all the amendments proposed by the different countries it is a completely unrealistic, dystopian scenario, which will just cost us a lot of money and is completely unworkable.
And let’s not forget the potential for losing our individual freedoms.
This needs to go now, don’t kick it into the long grass.

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Spinneyman
Spinneyman
1 year ago
Reply to  Myra

Whilst I want this stopped rather than delayed the deadline is so near I fear there’s insufficient time to get enough support. And I do not trust our gov. one inch. 

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Spinneyman
Spinneyman
1 year ago

We need to wake up as many MPs and the unawake as possible. So this tactic of pushing the decision down the road will allow that if successful. I will be sending this letter requesting more time to my MP/gov. Ministers and my small network of awake folk, the latter with a request to do the same. If you agree please do the same.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

I prefer to listen to the other WHO ——–“Won’t get Fooled Again”

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Spinneyman
Spinneyman
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

Good choice!

Last edited 1 year ago by Spinneyman
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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

Oh, I think there will be another “pandemic” very soon after the WHO gets the power to control our lives. Bill Gates has already “warned” us.

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bertieboy
bertieboy
1 year ago

I wrote to my Conservative MP a few months back outlining my various concerns regarding this amendment and consequential impact on the freedom of the individual etc etc. In his reply he said that our ‘constitution’ wouldn’t permit a surrender of any powers to the WHO and that, basically, we should not be concerned about it!
He’s a Conservative and not standing for re-election!

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SimCS
SimCS
1 year ago

Rathe than delaying these, they need a complete reframing so rather than being dictatorial, they are a reference book offered as informative of medical/virology fact, not a legal policy instruction. Medicine doesn’t advance by top-down authority, but by bottom-up research and observation. There must never be any uber-political or rich individuals proposing or making such policy decisions.

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