{"id":2858,"date":"2020-11-07T08:25:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T21:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2020-11-07T08:25:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T21:25:49","slug":"uk-government-is-criminalising-people-under-the-guise-of-protecting-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/uk-government-is-criminalising-people-under-the-guise-of-protecting-them\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government is &#8216;criminalising people under the guise of protecting them&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SkyNewsAustralia\"><\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News Australia<\/a> &#8211; Nov 6, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UK government is &#039;criminalising people under the guise of protecting them&#039;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v5SP6U9GhgM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spiked Online Editor Brendan O\u2019Neill says the UK government is criminalizing Britains under the guise of protecting them and their \u201cliberties have suffered enormously as a result\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sky News host Rowan Dean showed footage of UK police arresting a 73-year-old retired nurse for attempting to take her 97-year-old mother out of a care home amid the nation\u2019s lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s completely horrific and it\u2019s not justifiable at all,\u201d Mr O\u2019Neill said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s happening to elderly people in care homes in this country is an utter disgrace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had this utterly cruel policy of preventing people from visiting their loved ones in care homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe lockdown is presented as a way of protecting us but what it\u2019s actually doing is turning millions of ordinary Britains into criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re now a criminal if you take your parent from a care home. You\u2019re a criminal if you have a political protest &#8211; which are now banned in the second lockdown. You can be criminalized for going out more than once a day, for doing certain things you\u2019re not supposed to do, for opening a pub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe government is criminalizing people under the guise of protecting us and our liberties have suffered enormously as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky News Australia &#8211; Nov 6, 2020 Spiked Online Editor Brendan O\u2019Neill says the UK government is criminalizing Britains under the guise of protecting them and their \u201cliberties have suffered enormously as a result\u201d. Sky News host Rowan Dean showed footage of UK police arresting a 73-year-old retired nurse for attempting to take her 97-year-old&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/uk-government-is-criminalising-people-under-the-guise-of-protecting-them\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK government is &#8216;criminalising people under the guise of protecting them&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,9,198,151,769],"tags":[556,239,226,673,43,42,1545,1271],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/uk-government-criminalising-people2.jpg?fit=786%2C441&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}