What century is this? I ask because today, in London, peaceful protesters have been handcuffed and arrested for daring to express disapproval of King Charles. For daring to believe Britain should be a republic, not a constitutional monarchy. This is a grotesque assault on freedom. It is borderline medieval. No one’s feelings, not even the King’s, should ever trump the people’s right to freely express their beliefs in public.
‘Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties’
The footage coming out of Trafalgar Square shames Britain. We’ve seen protesters in ‘Not My King’ t-shirts being arrested. Cops apparently seized hundreds of placards. Graham Smith, the head of the campaign group Republic, has reportedly been arrested too. ‘Is this democracy?’, Republic has asked. No, it is not. A serious democracy does not put people in police vans for saying things it disapproves of.
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