Between $169-200. ibid.
Two Naperville Women Arrested After Trying To Block ‘Smart Meters’. ibid.
‘You will be required to pay other fees and charges …’ ibid. letter from electricity supplier
And left us there with no meter and no power in December in the cold with children. I was not a happy person that day. ibid.
We were lucky our house hadn’t burnt down. ibid.
I have to pay out of hours fees on top of their mistake … You don’t even know how much it is. ibid.
We’re in bureaucratic hell. ibid.
Look around America: squads of armed and angry people taking to the streets in the woodlands and public squares howling into the night. These are the soldiers of the America Militia Movement, locked and loaded. But what’s their beef? And who’s the instigator egging them on? Is it protest or it is something more sinister? America on Fire, Charlie LeDuff reporting, History 2019
According to the Southern Poverty Law Centre, there are more than 600 anti-government patriot groups in the United States. ibid.
On one part of the fence if the three-percenters, marching to protect the First Amendment backed by the second; on the other side is a mix of ANTIFA, known as anti-fascists, and American Muslims and left-wing activists. ibid.
CND has its biggest rally ever: two hundred thousand marched in London; another six hundred thousand in Germany. 1983: The Brink of Apocalypse, Channel 4 2008
When the Covid vaccine was announced, it promised freedom from lockdowns, economic catastrophe and relatives dying. Who wouldn’t jump at that? Many, it turns out. A powerful movement is exploiting our fears, persuading some to believe the vaccine is designed to control or even kill us. The Anti-Vax Conspiracy, Channel 4 2021
The antivaxxers: one of the UK movement’s chief crusaders is Jeremy Corbin’s elder brother Piers. At the movement’s heart is the core belief that politicians and profit-hungry drug companies exaggerate the dangers of Coronavirus. Even that the pandemic is a lie. It can be a seductive message. In the height of the third lockdown, thousands of people gather closely to denounce the vaccine and rage against the rules. The Global antivax movement is bigger, more organised and better funded than ever before. ibid.
In the UK 90% of people are for vaccinations, far more than other countries. ibid.
In America one in three people say they don’t want to be vaccinated. ibid.
In 2003 Tony Blair and George Bush started to spread this freedom to Iraq. Three coaches of day trippers set off for the US military base in Fairford, Gloucester, to protest against the war. On the way there they were pulled over for a routine traffic stop by over a hundred police in riot gear. The officers held them for two hours and searched every nook and cranny. The operation unearthed some paper masks, scissors, and several toy soldiers. Taking Liberties, 2007
New Labour started to pass more laws than any other government in history … To protect the nation from terror the Blair government passed a series of laws that also undermined our basic liberties. ibid.
Freedom of Speech means sometimes having to listen to things you don’t want to hear. Tony Blair got round this problem at the Labour Party conference by banning any mention of the Iraq war. ibid.
You can now be fined for disagreeing with the government anywhere in the country. You don’t even have to voice your concerns if you are the long arm of the law. ibid.
It is now illegal to demonstration within a kilometre of parliament unless you get an authorisation from the police. ibid.
Mia and Milan held a memorial service outside Downing Street. They were reading out the names of Iraqi civilians and British soldiers who had died since the invasion of Iraq. Luckily, fourteen policemen were on hand. ibid.
In June 2001 Brian Haw started his peaceful protest against sanctions placed on Iraq. Over the next four years the government repeatedly arrested Brian and took him to court. But Brian won every time. So the Home Secretary David Blunkett changed the law ... 78 police paid Brian a visit. ibid.
The Home Secretary now has the power to make anywhere in Britain a protest free zone … The first people to be arrested under the new law were two grandmothers. ibid.
The police have used the Terrorism Act to stop and search over 100,000 people. Though none of them were actually terrorists. ibid.
The Suffragettes felt that Civil Disobedience was the only way to get their message across. And it worked. ibid.
For the first time since he came to power Tony Blair lost a vote in the House of Commons. But he still managed to increase the pre-charge detention to twenty-eight days. ibid.
Tony Blair’s most expensive legacy will have been to turn over the entire country into a perfect prison. ibid.
The War on Terror kept David Blunkett very busy. In 2003 he got to fly to the USA and signed an extradition treaty which puts your liberty at the mercy of American justice. ibid.
The British prime minister who helped to destroy the one liberty that is supposed to be non-negotiable: the ban on torture. ibid.
This place and these women have one heck of a history. 40 years ago these three Welsh sisters [Brinkworths] were making a real ruckus here. Hitting headlines around the globe. Taking on Reagan, Thatcher and anyone else who got in their way. This is the story of the housewives from the Rhonda who risked it all to change the world. Mothers, Missiles and the American President, BBC 2022