Nonviolent 61-year-old locked up by authoritarian regime
A 61-year-old man from the UK has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for shouting obscenities at police officers during a recent protest.
British newspaper The Guardian basically doxxed the man, David Spring, by providing his street name in an article about his imprisonment.
Spring recently retired from his 42-year career as a train driver to care for his ill wife, but now he’ll be spending time behind bars until 2026.
That’s a lengthy sentence for the nonviolent “crime” of waving a finger at riot cops and shouting, “cunts,” at them.
The incident took place in Whitehall where citizens gathered to voice their frustrations about mass migration taking a toll on their city and country.
“Spring’s role in the disorder was shown on police body worn camera footage in court where he was seen making threatening and hostile gestures towards police, calling officers ‘c****’ and joining in chants of ‘you’re not English anymore’ and ‘who the f*** is Allah,’” reports the Guardian.
“Allah, Allah, who f*ck is Allah!” If you sing this in UK you will be arrested. It seems like a joke but it’s not. pic.twitter.com/arRxkoPjPt
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) August 13, 2024
Spring told arresting officers last week, “I didn’t go up to London to riot. I went to complain about people put up in hotels.”
The judge who sentenced Spring said his actions had encouraged people “to engage in disorder” and that the harsh sentence was meant to make an example so others are apparently deterred from engaging in free speech at future demonstrations.
“What you did could and it seems did encourage others to engage in disorder,” the judge stated.
A former political strategist behind the X account The Stark Naked Brief pointed out even UK laws don’t allow for arrests over swearing at police officers.
The account’s post also noted the judge didn’t appear confident in his ruling because he used the words “could” and “seems.”
“This is not indicative of a strong burden of proof,” the post stated.
Some context on the Brit who was supposedly jailed for saying “who the f*ck is Allah”…
His name is David Spring.
He was a train driver for 42 years and recently retired.
According to reports, he got sentenced under a violent disorder charge not a vague “hate speech” charge.… pic.twitter.com/PX1FQ3RE6z
— The Stark Naked Brief. (@StarkNakedBrief) August 14, 2024
American activist Marc Emery pointed out Spring may be in physical danger while serving time since he’s being falsely mislabeled a far-right racist and UK jails have large Muslim populations.
Englishman David Spring got 18 months in prison today for this. Could be a death sentence for someone labeled as far right in UK prisons. Here’s what he did: https://t.co/0BKBPOI5mR pic.twitter.com/2952geBlo4
— Marc Emery (@MarcScottEmery) August 13, 2024
Footage of a UK judge recently went viral as it showed the dystopian state of the British government where another individual was jailed for 20 months over a Facebook post that stated the fact that many migrants go on to rape people in their new countries.
Watch Alex Jones’ take on the clip below:
The nightmarish assault on free speech in the UK will soon come to America if Democrats are able to somehow stop Donald Trump from retaking the White House.
