A man hailing from the United Kingdom who was recently arrested and convicted for silently praying outside of an abortion clinic has a dire warning for believers all around the world, but especially in his homeland about the coming reality of thought-crimes. It’s not just the stuff of fiction concocted by authors like George Orwell. We’re experiencing it for real. And it’s about to get worse.
According to The Christian Tribune, Adam Smith-Connor was convicted by a court of law for “disapproval of abortion.” More specifically, expressing that disapproval. Even though he was praying to himself, inside his own head, and no one really could have known what he was doing. All because he was praying inside a “buffer zone” located near the baby murder mill where his baby boy was murdered by the mother. Sickening, right?
Apparently, those who murder pre-born children have far more rights than everyone else and are a protected class of individual in the UK. Smith-Conner then issued a warning about the “horrific implications” of governments cracking down on what he called “thought crimes.”
“I think this has horrific, frankly, horrific implications for England. The idea that the state has empowered itself to peer into people’s minds and criminalize your very thoughts — that should terrify every freedom-loving Englishman,” Adam Smith-Connor went on to tell Fox News Digital.
Despite being charged with a criminal offense for exercising his religious beliefs, Connor-Smith’s legal team has maintained that it will appeal the case. “We will be appealing this judgment because nobody should be criminalized for their thoughts in the United Kingdom,” ADF UK spokesperson Lois McLatchie Miller told Fox News Digital. Connor-Smith has warned that the ruling in his case should be disturbing to all those care about freedom of speech. “Quite frankly. It doesn’t really matter whether you’re pro-life or pro-choice. You know, the abortion issue really is a side issue here, really. This is really a freedom issue,” he said.
He then said, “And if we so empower the state that it can make your very thoughts a criminal act, then every one of us is in trouble because you might agree with the government today, but in the future there could be a government you disagree with. But once you’ve established that thought crime is a thing. Then there’s no stopping what they can do.”
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“We don’t know right now if that’s going to apply to silent stops like Adam experienced or to volunteers handing out or discussing options with women who are experiencing crisis pregnancies. But the wording of the legislation, ‘influence,’ is so vague that very well could be subjectively applied to punish people simply for the thoughts that they hold in their head, or the helpful conversations, consensual conversations that they have on a public street. So I think we are going to be in for a lot more of this in the UK,” McLatchie Miller continued.
What’s truly appalling about this egregious violation of a person’s God-given religious liberty is that Smith-Connor served two decades in the military, which included a tour in Afghanistan, in order to help preserve freedom for all of his fellow countrymen, putting himself in danger to help ensure their way of life was kept safe from those who desperately want to destroy it. How is he repaid? By having his own rights violated.
“Former Conservative MP Miriam Cates commented on the controversy, ‘This isn’t 1984, but 2024 – nobody should be on trial for the mere thoughts they hold in their mind. It’s outrageous that the local council are pouring taxpayer funding into prosecuting a thoughtcrime, at a time where resources are stretched thin. Buffer zone regulations are disproportionately wide, leaving innocent people vulnerable to prosecution merely for offering help, or simply holding their own beliefs,'” the report concluded.