Thought Police

Orwell was right:

“A man has been convicted today because of the content of his thoughts — his prayers to God — on the public streets of England,” Alliance Defending Freedom UK legal counsel Jeremiah Igunnubole lamented in a statement. “We can hardly sink any lower in our neglect of basic fundamental freedoms of free speech and thought.” This isn’t the only case where pro-life Brits have been arrested for prayer; this has happened multiple times now, and it’s downright dystopian. This man didn’t hurt anyone. He didn’t steal from anyone or trespass on the clinic’s property. He didn’t even shout at women entering the abortion clinic or try to convince them not to go through with their decision. He silently bowed his head in prayer, and the British government treated that as a “crime.” In reality, freedom of religion is a basic human right, and the real criminals here are the people violating the rights of Smith-Connor and his ilk. But Americans need to do more than simply sympathize with our friends across the pond who are living under increasingly Orwellian censorship regimes. We need to realize that if we’re not careful, the same kind of thing could eventually happen here.

It can't happen here-until it does...