Imagine my hilarity when the front page headline new “Iranian plot”, trailed by MI5 as involving weapons stores, attacks on the Israeli Embassy and on Whitehall, turned out to be yet another faked “surveillance operation” against Iran International, the “media company” that is dodgier than Al Capone’s accountant.
The BBC still made it the second item on Saturday’s main news, as “Iranian Terror Plot discovered”. Three men have been charged and remanded on bail before a hearing at the Old Bailey on 6 June.
This is another exercise of the UK’s draconian new legislation, the openly fascist National Security Act 2023, where it is an offence to gather information, whether classified or not, as “Engaging in conduct likely to assist a foreign intelligence service”.
This is an incredibly low bar – prosecutors don’t have to prove there is any actual contact with a hostile power. So if you take a photo of Downing Street, as many tourists do, that can be an offence as it could be “useful” to non-existent “Iranian terrorists” or others. We already have one person in jail for taking photos of Iran International despite absolutely zero evidence that he had ever had any kind of contact with Iran.
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You are being too modest.
It does more: it contradicts active support by the MSM for various disingenuous government agendas.
I am reminded of the 2000 terrorism act clause 58
1)A person commits an offence if—
(a)he collects or makes a record of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, F1…
(b)he possesses a document or record containing information of that kind [F2, or
(c)the person views, or otherwise accesses, by means of the internet a document or record containing information of that kind.]
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/contents
A number of people were given very long prison sentences for being in possession of information that they not only had no intention of acting on but had not read and sometimes did not even now they were in possession of the information.
The fact that they have to make up these pretend terrorist just demonstrates how few if any real terrorist that have not been sponsored by the security services there are. Considering the death and destruction the west has caused in so many countries for such a long time it is rather amazing that there are not lots of terrorists seeking revenge . If terrorists wanted to blow up trains on the London underground they could do so every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
The Inquest into the 7/7 attack confirmed that there were multiple holes in the floor of each of the trains but did not try to explain how this fitted the given narrative of a single bomb per train.
Craig,
When you write:-
““Engaging in conduct likely to assist a foreign intelligence service”.
It is not just what you write – it is the writings of the vast majority of all the co-conspirators bloggers who follow you.
Sorry – must inform MI 5.
“it is an offence to gather information, whether classified or not, as “Engaging in conduct likely to assist a foreign intelligence service”.
The government’s explanatory website (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/complying-with-the-national-security-act-2023-security-professionals/a-guide-to-the-national-security-act-2023-for-security-professionals-accessible) makes it clear that the activities (including information gathering) have to be against the UK. So people who are not acting against British interests shouldn’t have to worry. The website gives a helpful Appendix with examples.
BTW HMG did not, repeat not, pay me to write this. I’ll prove it to you. HMG are skinflints. I rest my case. 🙂
Will be interesting to see how the Iran International trial pans out, then. If it is as Craig says it is, then it doesn’t fall into the examples in the appendix there.
Thank you Craig for the timely reminder that we could all be locked up for reading your blog, I suppose I will just be making matters worse for myself if I were to tell everyone about a hack on the Signal application that resulted in 410 gigabytes of information falling into the hackers hands, see: https://ddosecrets.com/article/telemessage. Please use this information wisely and, no it is not available for anyone to download. Just jouralists.