{"id":698103,"date":"2026-05-15T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=698103"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:01:24","slug":"britain-is-now-policing-thought-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=698103","title":{"rendered":"Britain Is Now Policing Thought Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A\u00a0<strong>country that tells its citizens<\/strong>\u00a0their faith belongs only in designated \u201csafe areas\u201d is\u00a0<strong>not protecting pluralism, but actively dismantling it<\/strong>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you want a snapshot of how far Britain has drifted from its liberal inheritance, consider the spectacle of a 78 year-old grandfather and retired pastor being warned by police that he must not preach from the Bible within a public area.\u00a0<\/strong>His offence was not harassment, obstruction or intimidation. It was reciting and commentating on a verse many learned as children: \u201cFor God so loved the world\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clive Johnston\u2019s alleged crime was breaching a\u00a0\u2018buffer zone\u2019 around a hospital which houses a sexual health clinic where abortions are performed \u2013 despite the fact it was a Sunday afternoon when there were no scheduled abortions, and he made no reference whatsoever to abortion, nor motherhood, nor babies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The state maintains he risked \u201cinfluencing\u201d anyone accessing the clinic in relation to abortion or anyone working there\u00a0\u2013 a crime punishable by fine. He was prosecuted, and this week found guilty for doing so.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/britain-now-policing-thought-crime\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/britain-now-policing-thought-crime<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0country that tells its citizens\u00a0their faith belongs only in designated \u201csafe areas\u201d is\u00a0not protecting pluralism, but actively dismantling it&#8230; If you want a snapshot of how far Britain has drifted from its liberal inheritance, consider the spectacle of a 78 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=698103\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698104,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698103\/revisions\/698104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}