{"id":19840,"date":"2023-01-11T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T18:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19840"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T18:57:59","slug":"praying-silently-go-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/01\/11\/praying-silently-go-to-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying Silently? Go To Jail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A woman in the U.K. was <em>literally<\/em> arrested for committing thought crime. Specifically she was standing and praying silently. \u00a0 She was across the street from an abortion clinic but wasn\u2019t protesting, interfering with anyone coming or going, or otherwise doing <em>anything<\/em> except standing there praying silently. \u00a0 And yes, her admitting to <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1605957711631249408.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praying silently<\/a> is the reason <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/4A258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">why she was arrested<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police in the UK arrest a woman for silently praying: <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Are you praying?&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I might be praying in my head.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Q8UnKmfa1\">pic.twitter.com\/7Q8UnKmfa1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryMargOlohan\/status\/1605957711631249408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More on the arrest of Isabel-Vaughan-Spruce, who has been charged with breaking a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) for praying silently nearby an abortion facility in Kings Norton, Birmingham, on four occasions. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SOHFWzUX1U\">pic.twitter.com\/SOHFWzUX1U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryMargOlohan\/status\/1605959235283451905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Would the British police have arrested her if she were Muslim?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You can <a href=\"https:\/\/adf.uk\/woman-arrested-for-prayer\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">learn more<\/a> and help support this woman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adf.uk\/support-isabel\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quote-if-you-want-a-vision-of-the-future-imagine-a-boot-stamping-on-a-human-face-forever-george-orwell-139715.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quote-if-you-want-a-vision-of-the-future-imagine-a-boot-stamping-on-a-human-face-forever-george-orwell-139715.jpg 850w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quote-if-you-want-a-vision-of-the-future-imagine-a-boot-stamping-on-a-human-face-forever-george-orwell-139715-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quote-if-you-want-a-vision-of-the-future-imagine-a-boot-stamping-on-a-human-face-forever-george-orwell-139715-768x361.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Praying Silently? 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Specifically she was standing and praying silently. \u00a0 She was across the street from an abortion clinic but wasn\u2019t protesting, interfering with anyone coming or going, or otherwise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/01\/11\/praying-silently-go-to-jail\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,65,57],"class_list":["post-19840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-doom","tag-war-on-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19842,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19840\/revisions\/19842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}