Post by Mitch on Nov 1, 2004 11:11:01 GMT
"The judge decides, from high Judicial seat
The right to speak, petition, and to meet;
To meet - in every public space, no doubt!
If the police don't choose to keep you out.
If at such a meeting - you may chance to be,
And someone somthing says to somebody,
Tho' not one syllable you may have heard,
You're guilty, all the same of every word!
You may petition if you like, the throne -
But then the ministers decide alone;
Or parliament - and if they won't attend,
What would you more - the matter's at an end.
Precessions can in local be allowed-
Except for civic feast or courtly crowd;
Hunts too, may sweep the fields with battering feet,
But men not bear petitions thro' the street,
If you associate in your common cause -
That is conspiracy, by statute Laws!
If cabinet, or commons, you decry, -
That is sedition, rout and felony!
If you suppose the crown can do amiss,
That's treason - see our last new Act for this!
And if against the holy church you rail,
That's blasphemy! - to Jail, you knaves! To Jail!
You have a right to meet petitioning still, -
Just when we choose, - and say - just what we will".
(FROM: ERNEST JONES, The Revolt of Hindostan or the New World, 1851).
Ernest Jones (1819-1869), one time Barrister, a mischief maker supreme - who spent some time in prison for his mischief!
The right to speak, petition, and to meet;
To meet - in every public space, no doubt!
If the police don't choose to keep you out.
If at such a meeting - you may chance to be,
And someone somthing says to somebody,
Tho' not one syllable you may have heard,
You're guilty, all the same of every word!
You may petition if you like, the throne -
But then the ministers decide alone;
Or parliament - and if they won't attend,
What would you more - the matter's at an end.
Precessions can in local be allowed-
Except for civic feast or courtly crowd;
Hunts too, may sweep the fields with battering feet,
But men not bear petitions thro' the street,
If you associate in your common cause -
That is conspiracy, by statute Laws!
If cabinet, or commons, you decry, -
That is sedition, rout and felony!
If you suppose the crown can do amiss,
That's treason - see our last new Act for this!
And if against the holy church you rail,
That's blasphemy! - to Jail, you knaves! To Jail!
You have a right to meet petitioning still, -
Just when we choose, - and say - just what we will".
(FROM: ERNEST JONES, The Revolt of Hindostan or the New World, 1851).
Ernest Jones (1819-1869), one time Barrister, a mischief maker supreme - who spent some time in prison for his mischief!
