BBC sends cops to arrest nonviewer for refusing to pay the licensing fee

Americans who complain about the inconsequentially small subsidy given
to public television and radio licensees have no idea how good we have
it in this country. In the UK, there's been a mandatory licensing fee
for receiving radio and television via the natural electromagnetic
spectrum and expanded to receiving a signal via other methods. The BBC
receives a phenomenal public subsidy of close to lb 4 billion.

It's very difficult to avoid being not subject to the licensing fee. A
man chose not to watch tv and informed BBC that he was not subject to
the licensing fee.

BBC sent the police to arrest him. Not watching tv is criminal behavior.

They had videod him looking at a video with a still taken from a BBC
program that the man found on the Internet. They obviously couldn't
prove this was live tv (in fact they knew that it wasn't being
broadcast) and the judge threw the criminal case out.

But that meant they had to peep through his windows, trespassing.

I've seen videos in which UK barristers explain that BBC license
enforcement has an implied right of access to enter the premisis to look
for contraband unlicensed radio and tv receivers.

The man was sick of the nasty letters and pounding on the door to be let
in, so he wrote to BBC in order to withdraw the implied right of access.

You cannot stand up for your rights in the UK, what few remain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XowfxO_-eYA