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Eco idiots have signed contracts committing to get arrested and only a family DEATH gets them out of it, probe reveals
ECO idiots have signed contracts committing to get arrested - and only a family death can get them out of it.
Just Stop Oil activists were offered to put their name to a pact engaging in civil disobedience which would see them detained at least once, a Policy Exchange dossier reveals.
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The cult-like request states that participants are “willing to be arrested for my actions” and only a major life event such as the loss of a close loved one or illness will prevent those involved taking part.
Preparations include taking part in a one-day non-violence training exercise in the build-up to getting detained by cops.
The demonstrators have brought the capital and the Dartford Crossing to a standstill in recent weeks obstructing roads and blocking ambulances.
Ministers are being urged by the report to close legal loopholes to restore the public’s primary right to use highways.
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Calls are also being made to end the unworkable and unjust state of affairs where someone is only convicted if it’s proven the offence wouldn’t be disproportionate to the right to protest.
Sentencing and bail guidelines should also be toughened up to offenders who are causing repeat disruption, the report says.
David Spencer, one of the report’s authors, said: “It should not be necessary for police forces and individual officers to have to clean up where the legislature and the courts have failed to act.”
A spokesperson for Just Stop Oil said: “The people supporting Just Stop Oil, to the point of arrest and imprisonment are acting to protect our freedoms, rights and our democracy from the criminal policy that is new oil and gas.”
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