Ealing Council are threatening to take the Christian Voice National Director to court following his Buffer Zone Challenge on 6th February 2023.
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Threat of Court Action
The Council have sent Stephen Green a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN). It demands £100. The Notice came with a covering letter from Paul Murphy, ‘Safer Communities Operations Manager’. Mr Murphy’s letter was dated 9th March 2023. The FPN, dated 2nd March, contains the threat of court action in the event that the sum of £100 remains unpaid after fourteen days.
The FPN was issued by Mr Jess Murray, ‘Assistant Director for Safer Communities and Resident Services, Ealing Council.’ Although it says it was ‘given in person to Mr Stephen Green’, it was actually sent recorded delivery (or ‘signed for’).
Mr Murray says: ‘I have reason to believe that you have committed an offence.’ He goes on: ‘Details of the alleged offence are contained in this notice. This notice offers you the opportunity of discharging any liability to conviction for that offence by payment of a fixed penalty.’ Mr Murray says that if the £100 is paid within fourteen days, ‘you will not be liable to conviction’. Then comes the threat: ‘If you fail to pay the fixed penalty within that period, legal proceedings for the offence may be commenced against you.’.
Circumstance and Notes
The notice then gives what it calls ‘Circumstances alleged to constitute the offence’:
‘On Monday 6th February 2023, outside MSI Reproductive Choices Clinic (sic), 87 Mattock Lane, Ealing, London W5 5BJ, which is within the Safe Zone as defined in the Public Spaces Protection Order (Mattock Lane Safe Zone) 2018, you did something you were prohibited from doing in a Public Spaces Protection Order, namely 1) protested (i.e. engaged in an act of disapproval) with respect to issues related to abortion services, and (2) displayed text related directly or in directly to the termination of pregnancy.’
There follow some ‘contemporaneous notes’:
‘Further information on the offence are (sic) detailed within the witness statement of Mr Connor DULEA and PC Erhan MUSTAFA, as well as within the CCTV footage from London Borough of Ealing public safety CCTV, Metropolitan Police CCTV and an array of evidence provided by the Defendant and others on social media.’
Displayed Text
The reference above to ‘displayed text’ refers to a scripture on the placard ‘the Defendant’ was holding in front of the clinic. It said:
Psalm 139:13: For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
Stephen Green said today: ‘I have no intention of paying Ealing’s FPN, either within fourteen days or at all. It will be up to them to decide whether to carry out their threat of ‘legal proceedings’. If they do, they will have to explain to the court what a Bible verse using pre-natal human development to illustrate the closeness of God has to do with ‘the termination of pregnancy’. (And what a shocking expression that is.)
In his ‘Treasury of David’ Charles Hadden Spurgeon explains verse 13 of this great psalm. The Almighty one is ‘the acknowledged lord and possessor of my most secret self’. CH Spurgeon goes on: ‘Thus the Psalmist describes the intimacy which God had with him. In his most secret part—his reins, and in his most secret condition—yet unborn, he was under the control and guardianship of God.’ (Worth reading in full.)
A key take-away may be that 3,000 years ago, a shepherd-boy and musician who became a king knew quite accurately how, by the grace of God, he had grown in his mother’s womb. Moreover, each of us started that way, and each of us was known by God in that place. If God knows that much about each one of us, then each one of us has a God-given role to play in his kingdom.
Christian Witness
The witness outside the Marie Stopes facility was not an act of disapproval of abortion. It was an act of disapproval of buffer zones, timed to take place as the matter of nation-wide buffer zones was being debated in Parliament.
Of course Christian Voice, along with every Christian washed in the blood of the Lord Jesus, disapproves of abortion. The legalisation of the shedding of innocent blood is one of the United Kingdom’s defining sins. The Lord said to Cain, after he had slain his brother Abel:
Gen 4:10 … What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
However, the activity in Ealing and the other four days of February’s Buffer Zone Challenge was to do with Christian witness and our freedom to preach the word. In May of this year King Charles will be anointed and crowned king of his realms and territories. He will be presented with the Great Bible, the King James Version held in Westminster Abbey. Are we saying there are verses from that Bible His Majesty may not quote in a part of his kingdom?
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Prayer
Neh 6:11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
Acts 4:20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Acts 5:41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Thank God for this opportunity to stand against Ealing Council and the rest of what is now becoming a pro-abortion British establishment.
The Public Order Bill, containing the establishment of buffer zones outside abortion premises all over England and Wales, is set to become law. The Bill was debated in the House of Commons last week and in the House of Lords again only yesterday. The two Houses are now set to agree and the Bill will pass, receive Royal Assent and become an Act of Parliament.
Pray for national repentance. The UK law forbids pro-life activists offering a women a better way. It protects the market of those who shed innocent blood. There will be pressure for a similar law everywhere abortion is legalised.
The legalisation of abortion will now carry with it everywhere a similar assault on freedom of Christian speech. Pray for those countries in the world where abortion is still illegal to stand firm. Pray for the Lord to raise up a vibrant Christian witness in every land.
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As it is just simply a Bible text this could be a very interesting case and eventually a witness for Christ?!
Well, Amen, but will they carry out their threat? …
Well done for being such a threat to the forces of mass abortion darkness by speaking and I presume daring, to be there. Let’s be clear, the reason why the forces of mass ab darkness do not want anyone even being near their mass abortion centres is because they want to keep what they do well hidden. You dared to expose it so all they can do is post you a fine document.
What about the law?
1.It appears to be a Council generated document being a fine. How can a local council create such a thing? This needs to be looked at and tested in a proper court.
2.If this was to go to a court hearing check it is a validly appointed, real court. There are people who say many of these so called fining courts appear to be set up outside of the common law court system. Look for a proper coat of arms of the king being displayed prominently. If it is there it is probably a lawful, common law court. I know people who have also requested the document appointing the ‘judge’ of these courts because it must come on a coat of arms embossed paper from the Lord Chancellor’s Dept.
3.Under Art10 Bill of Rights 1689 no one can be made to pay a fine unless there has been a conviction by a court. The reason for this is to stop any group trying to fine citizens without going through a proper court hearing. It is worth arguing that you do not have to pay the alleged fine you were sent because it is unconstitutional under the Bill of Rights. You have a defence of non payment because the fine was unconstitutional because when the council sent you the fine you had no conviction.
4. Any discrepencies in the alleged fine can be raised in court to get it thrown out.
5.If you did not say any of the offending words displayed on/in the notice, you cannot have committed an offence. I suspect there may be other things hidden away, in which case they should have been made known to you. The offence must be clear otherwise that is a breach of the Rule of Law.
6.You have a Human Rights Act defence of freedom of speech and conscience. You, and we all have the inalienable right to speak freely about issues that are of national and public concern. No government or authority has the power to stop us, it is our God given right.
If I think of anything else I will let you know.
This is why fighting for free expression is so important. If the church does not fight back we will lose the right to state anything Christian, anywhere and that includes inside churches.
Come on church goers, stand your ground, stand firm, stand up for the unborn.
PS: I am going to a rally in London this Saturday against the London ULEZ charge, Trafalgar Square. Come and join me it’s a great witnessing opportunity.