Freedom News

Homeless shelter threatened with illegal eviction

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In a decaying empire, in which UN Human Rights Chiefs characterise the government’s most recent legislative power grabs as “deeply troubling” and in context of the police “especially worrying” it’s not surprising to see courts being cut out of the equation.

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10 years of S144

10 years ago the government criminalised squatting in residential property, taking away the ability to make use of empty property best designed for living. This was done sneakily by adding it on to a bill already most of the way through parliament, and which was otherwise attacking legal aid and increasing punishments for the poor.