NOT GUILTY!

A preacher has been found not guilty of a public order offence after a complaint from two homosexuals.

Michael Overd, from Taunton, was part of a street witness and was preaching from 1Cor 6:9-11 in October 2010 when two homosexual men, Craig Nicholl and Craig Manning, passed him holding hands. Hearing the word ‘homosexual’ in the passage, they turned round, went up to Mr Overd and began shouting at him, using despicable foul language. The Court was told Mr Nicholl spat at the preacher.

On a second occasion, 16th July 2011, Michael Overd was preaching alone when the two approached him. In full flow, he said, ‘Even these two dear men, whom I’ve met before, caught in the sin of homosexuality, can have forgiveness of their sin.’

The two Craigs, who recently entered into a ‘civil partnership’, again began screaming at the preacher and making, he told Taunton Deane Magistrates Court, all kinds of homosexually-charged comments and allegations at him. Not satisfied with that, they called the police, but so aggressive did they become, it was Mr Overd who was glad to see the boys in blue.

Michael Overd was prosecuted under Section 4a of the Public Order Act 1986:

Section 4A – Intentionally causing harassment, alarm or distress:
‘A person is guilty if, with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress, he
‘a) uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or
‘b) displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting,
‘thereby causing that or another person harassment, alarm or distress.’.

But the Court found that Michael Overd did not have any such intent and found him not guilty.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, heard the evidence in court and said after the verdict:

‘Coming on a day when both the Bulls and Bideford Council lost their cases in the High Court, this verdict is welcome news. Christians find themselves today in an environment where they can be insulted, sworn at, threatened with violence, even spat at, and then themselves charged with a public order offence. Clearer instructions and better training need to filter down to police officers so that cases like this do not waste the time of the court. This case should never have been brought and the verdict is a victory for Christian liberty and for freedom of speech.’

Messrs Nicholl and Manning, who described each other in court as ‘my husband’ , alleged that Michael Overd told them they would ‘burn in hell’ but this turned out to be as much a figment of their imagination as the idea that they are in any way ‘married’ to each other. Four witnesses told the court that they had never heard Mr Overd use such language.

An amusing moment happened when the prosecutor tried to explore the defendant’s view on certain subjects as heaven and hell, abortion, fornication and homosexuality. Time after time, Mr Overd referred the lawyer to the Bible, saying that he believed what was in it. In the end, the chairman of the magistrates lost patience, and said to the prosecutor, ‘I think we have established that his beliefs are based on what he reads in the Bible.’

By the end of the evidence, the Court was left in no doubt as to who would not inherit the kingdom of God. In the King James Version: 1Cor 6:9 ‘Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.’

Michael Overd was represented in court by Paul Diamond of counsel instructed by Michael Phillips, solicitor

Christian Voice

MI5 STUPIDITY

If you dozy bird brains are going to keep spying on me and hacking me, there's not really anything I can do to stop you.

But you are wasting your time if you are looking for contacts and stuff. The Lord shows me stuff. He can see everything all the time and doesn't need a computer.

You people ought to say you are sorry to the Lord, he's coming back soon you know. What on earth are you going to say to him when he comes back?

You lot need to think long and hard about that.

ORANGES AND SUNSHINE

Last night I watched Oranges and Sunshine. I had wanted to see this film at the cinema, when it was released last year, but none of the cinemas near me showed this film.

I cannot recommend this film highly enough. It is about the organised deportation of children in care from the UK to Commonwealth countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada. It has extra materiel included on the DVD, a questions and answers session with people from the film and Margaret Humphries, the social worker who led the quest to reunite the deportees with their families in the UK, and the apology from Gordon Brown and Andy Burnham is also included. Before the apology, there is a statement which says that the deportations were not only going on in the 1950s and 1960s, but that they had been going on for centuries. As I read that shocking statement, I wished they could have added that the illegal deportations are still ongoing, as the secret family courts are still taking peoples children from this country and sending them abroad - there are accounts from the West Midlands to show that Social Services have spent public money in this way, on plane tickets to whisk children out of this country.


I don't want to knock Gordon Brown, because one thing I will say about him is that I wrote to him many times while he was the Prime Minister and I got a reply from every single letter I sent to him. I don't think it is fair to blame the horrible wicked child stealing and deportation that has come to light on people like him. I just wished Gordon Brown would have had a bit more courage, and a determination to stop these disgusting crimes against humanity while he had the chance.

Of course, the situation is different from this film now, as nowadays each individual child is worth more, the human traffickers see the stolen children as little pots of gold, as the child prostitution and forced adoption industry is worth £billions, whereas the 50 - 60s deportees were wanted as cheap labour to exploit, although some of them were also sexually abused as well.

It is a very good film and I am very glad to have managed to get a copy at last.

BEN HUR

I tried to do a post about the book I am reading, Ben Hur, but the last time I tried I was unable to as apparently someone else is using my dashboard - without my permission.

SOME GREAT GUITARISTS THAT I ADMIRE

When I was young I spent about a month learning the opening of this piece. I don't know how he manages to play it so fast!



I learned to play this when I was young, and impressed my friends at school, but probably encouraged the bullies to pick a fight with me, which ended my school days because I belted them back and ended up getting big stones thrown at me and Mum wouldn't let me go to that school any more and got me into college instead.



I just like to listen to this, he makes his guitar sing the blues



Listen to the end of this track - you can hear the sea in this song.

REVIVAL NOT REVOLUTION

Being blocked from accessing Revolution Harry's blog has prompted me to put this post up.

I (and I strongly suspect Harry is too) am 100% opposed to revolution. I think it's important for me to make this statement so that there can be no misunderstanding about this issue.

I am a Christian, not an anarchist. Christians are people who try to follow the example set by the Lord Jesus Christ, who was also not an anarchist, though he was falsely accused of being one.

Anarchy is the desire to destroy the government and create a lawless society. I have no such desire. What I want is that the government rules in a just and proper way, so that everybody, without exception, is subject to the same laws. So that, for example, if a rich man murders someone, he is given the same means of a fair trial as a poor man.

The way I see it, the ones who are responsible for creating disrespect for the laws are lawyers. To deliberatly create over complicated laws, that ordinary people stand no chance of even remembering, let alone obeying, is to show contempt for the God who created us all. To create all these new laws and clauses, and not give the people in the country easy access to actually finding out what all these new laws and clauses are is dishonest.

People are getting angry, because they see God's laws being broken - the laws which prohibit murder, stealing, rape ect - and people using their influence, political muscle and money, and these new super complicated laws and clauses to get away with really serious crimes, whilst other people are getting hammered for really ridiculous non crimes such as dropping a sweet paper. And they also realise that something very strange is going on with the media, that they are not being given the news, that they are being certain news items and not others, that they are being prevented from accessing certain news items and information.

I hope and pray that this country will never have another revolution, but will instead have a spiritual awakening. People need to care about justice, we need to care about righteaousness. There are people in this country who want this country to fall apart at the seams, I say in this country but the driving forces are actually coming from a gang of people who don't really care about this country at all - they are international anarchists. They don't need to worry too much about causing everything to go belly up in this country because they have properties in other countries, and some of them also have yachts.

I wrote to every MP in the British Isles at least 10 times, informing them about two American paedophile psychologists, Richard Gardner and Ralph Underwager, who have influenced the child protection system in the UK, with syndromes that they have invented, the object which was to enable paedophiles to get away with their crimes, and to cover up child abuse. Child abuse has to be one of the most wicked crimes anyone can commit. I had quite a few replies from those MPs, but not a single one of them has ever stood up in Parliament and spoken about either of these two men to my knowledge. Gardner was sent to this country by Eagle Associates and the Kensington Institute, apparently now renamed the Commonwealth Institute. Anyone who invited Richard Gardner to this country must have known full well what a wicked scoundrel he was. Eagle Associates is a subsidery of Lockheed Martin, the US company that is responsible for making cluster bombs, and also running the UK 2011 Census. The chairman of Eagle Associates is a man called David Abrahams. I understand this is the same man who gave dodgy cash donations to New Labour whilst Tony Blair was Prime Minister, and then tried to deny it, by pretending to be skint! Now THAT looks like anarchy to me!

TO THE TROLL

Like I said, I'm not publishing any more of your nasty hate filled comments. I have however spent about 5 minuites (that's all you are worth of my precious time) penning a little song specially for you.

SET TO THE BARRY MANILOW SONG MANDY

In my inbox, every day
What's the insult for today?
Adding hate comments to all of my posts
Sending it via Google, the host

Telling me I've got no brain
Hassling me again and again
Calling me "nutter", "a freak" and "a slag"
Telling me I'm just a stupid old bag

Oh Haworth!
You troll and you troll without ceasing
Every day
Oh Haworth!
I won't post any more of your bleating
And I wish you Good day
Now go away.