How about an encouraging update from Clown World™ for once?
In March, Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested, for the second time, by the West Midland Police in Britain, and she was quite literally arrested for thoughtcrime.
Orwell called it.
Praise be to God, however, those charges have now been dropped.
She received an email recently saying that the charges were dropped - this time because of a limitation of proceedings that expired on Sept. 6.
Basically, the police just let the case expire. There's no admitting that they were wrong to press charges. No punishment for the officers arresting someone for thinking. It was just that they didn't want to go to too much trouble.
Here's Isabel's response:
"This isn't 1984, but 2023 - I should never have been arrested or investigated simply for the thoughts I held in my own mind," she said.
"Silent prayer is never criminal. I welcome West Midland Police's decision to end their investigation and their apology for the time it took to do so, but it's important to highlight the extremely harmful implications of this ordeal not just for myself, but for everyone concerned with fundamental freedoms in the UK. What happened to me signals to others that they too could face arrest, interrogation, investigation, and potential prosecution if caught exercising their basic freedom of thought," the statement said.
This was the second time Vaughan-Spruce was arrested and had the charges dropped for simply praying silently outside a murder mill, but I suspect it may not be her last.
Here are some more thoughts from Vaughan-Spruce on the gruesome state of abortion in the UK:
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