More at http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/200804...c-fa6b408.htmlFortune-tellers, mediums and spiritual healers marched on Downing Street on Friday to protest against new laws they fear will lead to them being "persecuted and prosecuted".
Organisers say that replacing the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951 with new consumer protection rules will remove key legal protection for "genuine" mediums.
They think sceptics might bring malicious prosecutions to force spiritualists to prove in court that they can heal people, see into the future or talk to the dead.
Psychics also fear they will have to give disclaimers describing their services as entertainment or as scientific experiments with unpredictable results.
"If I'm giving a healing to someone, I don't want to have to stand there and say I don't believe in what I'm doing," said Carole McEntee-Taylor, a healer who co-founded the Spiritual Workers Association.
The group delivered a petition with 5,000 names to the prime minister's office, although Gordon Brown is away in the United States.
Malicious prosecutions to force someone to prove something? Malicious? Eh?
*pats arm soothingly*"If I'm giving a healing to someone, I don't want to have to stand there and say I don't believe in what I'm doing," said Carole McEntee-Taylor...
Of course you don't, darling, of course you don't...
The stories say that they marched on Downing Street, but very few of them say how many of them marched. Here's one though:Originally Posted by seren
This invited them to gather in Trafalgar Square at noon.about a dozenI was in Trafalgar Square at 12:15 and again at about 12:50. No sign of them or their banners.We are taking the petition to Number 10 Downing Street on the 18th April 2008
at 2pm.
We are meeting in Trafalgar Square at 12.00pm
Bring your banners and join us
I wonder why this got so much reportage if the numbers you quote are correct. In the past I have seen complaints from other groups who mustered far bigger protests yet were largely ignored in the press. How does this work?
Associated Press has the "about a dozen" figure as well. Possibly gets more coverage because it's a "funny" story?
Maybe they forgot to put their clocks forward a few weeks ago.
I was thinking they all foresaw a plane crash onto Trafalgar Square at that time, so decided not to show up =).
They'd probably have got more of a welcome at Downing Street when the previous occupant was there. He'd have said we shouldn't hamper the mediums in their activities, because it makes for - you know - diversity.
Re: Mediums march on Downing Street
hi i also believe in after life and healing we dont have to prove it to any one i have had my proof how can some one make it up when i am the only one who new the story this was a totoal stranger to me and yet they told me something from the other side that no one else new proof or what? i leave it up to you
What? They didn't "see" that he wouldn't be there?
Well I'm convinced
Try reading some of the other threads on this site first, then you will understand why we require more evidence than personal testimony.
After May 26th, you will if you're going to try to make money out of it.
there may only have been about a dozen mediums (media?), but think of how many millions of spirit guides there were!
This was the largest protest in the history of ever! (except for the scientologist protests, they get to count their thetans)
Up to me? OK, you're either a loony or a liar then.And your English isn't very good, I hope it's not your first language.
I suspect mediums won't justify what they claim at all. They will simply hedge thier claims with words like 'research' and 'experiment' as some are already doing. It would certainly be a move in the right direction. Will they have to cancel Most Haunted?
if they sell it as a service, no matter what weasel words they use, then them must be able to demonstrate that the service they sell is real.
these regs only apply to business to consumer transactions, MH is the result of a business to business transaction.It would certainly be a move in the right direction. Will they have to cancel Most Haunted?
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