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Well apparently, the UK has decided to shift its loyalties from courageously defying tyranny

in the 20th century to embracing it in the 21st.

Just last week, a so-called conservative-led British parliament made George Orwell's

fictional accounts of thought crime a reality.

After establishing censorship zones around abortion clinics in England and Wales, the MPs

then voted 299 to 116 to criminalize even silent prayer in the vicinity of such clinics.

A lawyer for the UK's Alliance Defending Freedom put it this way.

Quote, today's vote marks a watershed moment for fundamental rights in freedom in our country.

Parliament had an opportunity to reject the criminalization of free thought, which is

an absolute right, and embrace individual liberty for all.

Instead, Parliament chose to endorse censorship and criminalize peaceful activities, such

as silent prayer and consensual conversation.

And this law is no idle threat.

This last month, Isabelle von Sprues and Sean Goe were thankfully found, not guilty,

in a Birmingham-Engling court for the supposed crime of praying in public.

Neither were arrested for some kind of loud, amplified prayer that disrupted public activities

or woke people up in the dark of night.

They were arrested for praying silently outside an abortion clinic.

Goe held a sign saying that he was praying for free speech, but von Sprues was arrested

because the police thought she might be praying.

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