Your assertion, on which you build a convoluted arguement, that you appear to believe justifies the suppression of free speech.
My original quote from your post appeared to be a non-sequitur, however, I now see it isn't because ....
Well actually I don't, but I've given up the will to live.
My assertion is based on an understanding of the law given to me by members of my family, three of which are barristers, one currently working in Europe as a specialist lawyer in the field of human rights.
I haven't given you an opinion that free speech needs to be 'suppressed'. What I have done is state what the existing position is in international and UK law. I think the people are forgetting its purpose, to have the legal right to speak truth to power and stand up to abusive authority.
What the government are doing is blindsiding the electorate, promoting themselves as defenders of free speech, in the process creating culture wars. At the same time they are the suppressors of those right. This is made clear by them each day with references to 'lefty lawyers' and with the media previously declaring judges to be 'enemies of the people'. It's a stitch up, and they are getting away with it. This thread being all the evidence one needs to see.
AS with her claims that international law is nebulous and doesn't apply here is just bollocks. She accuses me of mental gymnastics, but time and again she is without facts or evidence.
We are bound by the UN through the decisions of the ICJ, we are bound by the European Convention on Human Rights through the decisions of the ECtHR. The government wish to remove us from the latter as that is the one that enables ordinary citizens a court of last resort in which to seek effective remedy of abuses of the state.
We stand to lose that, we stand to see interference in the separation of the the legislature and the judiciary. In the latter case because the intrepid Gina Miller was able to twice defeat the government in the Supreme Court for abuses.
How will the ordinary citizen defend themselves from state abuse if the authority of the courts to judge the lawfulness or otherwise of government, to seek effective remedy against devolved authorities, and without the availability of legal aid. And then without recourse to ultimate arbitration at the European Court of Human Rights.
There is a power grab going on, removing the rights of citizens in a functioning democracy, under the cover of a manufactured culture war to take on 'wokery'. Brexit was a power grab, this is a further power grab, and for the second time, the government are recruiting useful idiots.
