UK Conspirator Arrested for Planning A PEACEFUL Protest Against the Royal Wedding

[Banana Jelly]

What is this? Isn't Great Britain a WESTERN nation? Is free speach going straight to hell because of a wedding? He was arrested for 24 hours on the wedding date barring him from the peaceful protest day.

[Babur]

What is this? Isn't Great Britain a WESTERN nation? Is free speach going straight to hell because of a wedding?

Well if this had occurred before 1998 he might have been executed for treason

[Banana Jelly]

Well if this had occurred before 1998 he might have been executed for treason

Well, treason is a little harsh considering the right to peaceful protest is a Western right, or the right to free speech is a human right. Peaceful protest is apart of free speech, so I do not know why.

I am not against the wedding but, this is kind of concerning. But I really don't know, peaceful protests can turn violent, so it might have been precaution. However the law dictates he hasn't done anything wrong however.

[Captain Jin]

I have problems believing the credibility here. Considering that there is literally a protest every week in London I don't see why they would not allow this man to protest or demonstrate unless there was a reason for it.

[Banana Jelly]

I have problems believing the credibility here. Considering that there is literally a protest every week in London I don't see why they would not allow this man to protest or demonstrate unless there was a reason for it.

It was because it was ON THE DAY of the wedding. But I do not see how this was the basis for the arrest, and as the man said, they had no basis. The man really looked like he wasn't doing anything wrong, as he was very cooperative.

The arrest was a conspiracy to plan public nuisance on the day of the wedding (or basically a protest on the day of the wedding). Plus the aligation of public trespass. He was arrested based on aligation, rather then a real charge however.

[Poach]

BBC News article, since the article desperately lacked a decent source.

Apparently he said on his website his plan was to distrupt the Royal Wedding, hence the pre-emptive arrest.

[GreyFox]

The policeman says yer man's DOB is in 1980. The Beeb article says the girlfriend is 21. Hot diggity, maybe I should get into that sort of stuff in a few years.

On-topic, this sort of stuff is kind of crazy.

[Menelik_I]

What is this? Isn't Great Britain a WESTERN nation? Is free speach going straight to hell because of a wedding? He was arrested for 24 hours on the wedding date barring him from the peaceful protest day.

One thing is Free Speech, another is being a dickhead and disrupt a weeding.

[Babur]

disrupt a weeding.

William and Kate were weeding yesterday?

[Their Law]

William and Kate were weeding yesterday?

So long as weeding's a euphemism

[Babur]

So long as weeding's a euphemism

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His Royal Majesty Crown Prince Williams was weeding the Princess Kate ... no further details can be provided

and Harry was weeding Pippa?

anyway more on topic, tbh I overslept rather than watch the wedding but I still think it is rather strange to boycott this wedding especially considering that Republican sentiment is still pretty low in the UK

[Menelik_I]

William and Kate were weeding yesterday?

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His Royal Majesty Crown Prince Williams was weeding the Princess Kate ... no further details can be provided

[Their Law]

I don't think he should of been pre-emptively arrested. But even if you have an issue with the Royal Family there's a time and a place to protest, not at someone's wedding.

[Applesmack]

Arrest is fully justified. There is no issue here.

[Armenum]

It's a culturally important wedding, police don't want some idiots ruining the momentous day, in my view it's justified given the circumstances.

[Exarch]

eh
he'll be pardoned by the new princess

[Copperknickers II]

Meanwhile in Glasgow...

[Exarch]

meanwhile...in an undisclosed part of London, the duke and duchess of cambridge are busy ploughing each other and chugging bottles of champagne

[Dr Zoidberg]

meanwhile...in an undisclosed part of London, the duke and duchess of cambridge are busy ploughing each other and chugging bottles of champagne

Nothing wrong with that. I'm pretty sure most couples do that on their wedding night. (I know I did)

[Exarch]

Nothing wrong with that. I'm pretty sure most couples do that on their wedding night. (I know I did)

you got married?!
congratulations

anyhoo, i've been kinda torn over this; while on the one hand i'm a republican at heart, i also happen to love weddings; i woulda crashed it if there weren't so many cops armed with mp5s.