I know Home Secretary is the modern Grand Vizier, that thinking is not in the job description and public displays of authoritarianism are, but still…

If you are not free to do something every moment of every day, you are not free to do something.

(Whether you should is another matter, as is what happens if you impinge on the freedoms of others.)

If your protest is subject to the sayso of your superiors, what you have is a temporary licence, not a freedom.

(Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwy8dkp97wyt)

@gmh

JFK: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

we are already seeing this.

Synagogue attacked, mosque burned down, government not governing just imposing.

@gmh

"If you are not free to do something every moment of every day, you are not free to do something."

Thats it in a nutshell. They are simply finding a way to make protest illegal by another route.

Bravo.

FREE PALESTINE

@gmh people will still have the right to protest, but only for issues that the government has OK'd 😡
@gmh the german réunification happened because people protested every week, for months. EVERY week.