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It was definitely a breach of the peace, because the opinion is controversial and disrupted the event. But there's a limit to arresting those speaking out, bec
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
It was definitely a breach of the peace, because the opinion is controversial and disrupted the event.
But there's a limit to arresting those speaking out, because it can so easily be abused.
That's the gist of the discussion. What further observations can we make?
They used the death of Elizabeth as an excuse for suppressing the speech during a different event - the solemnizing of a new King. One is related to the other, but I fear this excuse can be used to suppress anything (Have some respect! The Queen died just last month! Stop protesting oil prices!)
And let's admit, this was a goofy event about an imaginary aura being moved from one person (who is dead?!) to another (related to her? Nepotism!) It's up there with witches and demons (belief in otherworldly powers invested in humans). So maybe not of big import to most of us.
- bzzzt 4y ago“The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.” ― Terry Pratchett, Mort