Scotland: land of the unfree, home of the tattletales
[Hat tip: commenter “Barry Meislin”]
Scotland’s new hate-speech law has drawn quite a reaction:
Entirely as predicted, Police Scotland has been deluged with vexatious and politically-driven ‘hate crime’ reports, with one top official complaining “we cannot cope.”
Under the new legislation, anyone deemed to have been verbally ‘abusive’, in person or online, to a transgender person, including “insulting” them could be hit with a prison sentence of up to seven years.
Is it real or is it Memorex? It appears to come from both sides of the political spectrum. Apparently some of the reports are woke complaints and some are people on the right trolling the authorities. Pity the poor poor police, who apparently have nothing better to do:
This followed a trial of a separate program set to be implemented across the country to stop investigating crimes like theft and criminal damage, which authorities acknowledge will help criminals.
These events are beyond any parody the Bee could cook up. Whatever happened to “sticks and stones”? Apparently it’s only old folks who recall the rhyme and what it means.
will drake, the critical drinker, who was largely a cultural commentator, from the North, has smelled the rotten haggis, a modern day William Wallace would not fare any better than his predecessor,
Again, this just makes explicit the logic of leftoid conduct in institutional life. What’s important is the establishment and maintenance of narratives and status hierarchies. What’s not important is the security of persons and property. Q. What’s the difference between the vermin in the Scottish and Irish legislatures who enact this and Democratic legislators in the United States? A. About five years, if that.
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Why not try a Cloward-Piven strategy with these vermin? You know the opposition will never get around to repealing these measures.
If only the fascist technocratic policing state could be so easily defeated here!
Early last January, I linked to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Brmze of the Foundation for Freedom Online, which created a sensation online.
Another Benz interview I linked to here in February, I believe.
Now, finding previous saved posts up at YouTube diverted or deleted by Google Overlords, in a search I discovered plenty of of barely viewed Mike Benz interviews on Rumble.
JAN JEKIELEK is the longtime host of American Thought Leaders, formerly on YT.
His two part Mike Benz interview is required reading if you care to discover how American’s were herded in RussiaGate , the 2030 election, and COVID-19, and yet remain their cows to be slaughtered in fake elections today.
It’s one thing to see through the Matrix here, in peaceful discussion. But quite another to defeat Hydra. That’s what were really up against.
Our founders knew what they were doing when they wrote freedom of speech into our Constitution. We must insist on freedom to speak, even when we disagree with the speech in question. It’s when ugly speech moves into illegal actions that lines can be drawn.
We can hope that Scotland’s backing down from prosecuting J.K. Rowling, and now this mess in which police don’t have time to investigate actual crimes because they’re too busy looking into unpleasant talk, will bring the whole stupid project crashing down.
It oughta be a Capital Crime for humans to create laws…7 years for calling a man pretending to be a woman a man!?!
Personally, old as I am now—I’d probably need a club for a big man pretending to be a woman. Forget calling ‘Her‘ a 7 year prison sentence name—I’d go for a charge of Grievous bodily harm or wounding where the “maximum sentence is five years’ custody.” That would have to be in Scotland tho since I fall under the “habitual felony offender” law in Florida.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6350571480112
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Our callow youths squander their heritage.
Transgenderism is based on a lie.
How dare anyone oppose the lie.
Scotland’s leftists voted for this ‘law’ to intimidate dissenters into complying with the left’s narrative . But that is not why Yusef championed its passage. He sees it as a step towards Sharia law. The leftists are gravely underestimating the future threat to them from Islam. Secular leftists are simply incapable of comprehending the very nature of theological fanaticism.
I like to think I don’t think in stereotypes, but I thought the Scots — I’m a McLennan myself — had more backbone.
Or may be it’s just the hijacking of a nation by a minority. Clearly this stupid law is receiving resistance.
“The leftists are gravely underestimating the future threat to them from Islam.”
Yep…exactly. Although given the number of Islam adherents in all of Europe at the moment…Islam is a clear & present danger.
@ Jon baker > “Transgenderism is based on a lie.”
https://notthebee.com/article/puberty-is-not-a-disease-longterm-study-shows-kids-grow-out-of-gender-confusion-and-suicide-is-unrelated-to-gender-issues
A couple of really important studies — confirming what any non-ideologically-brainwashed mother already knew.
Who woulda thought that Scotland had such a death wish?
Or England for that matter?
Ireland?
(Western Europe, generally?)
And now North America seems to want to jump on that bandwagon.
File under: WEF/WTF UBER ALLES!!
And where Scotland goeth, can Canada be far behind??
“Trudeau’s Dystopian Online Harms Act Makes Margaret Atwood And George Orwell Look Like Amateurs”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2024/04/09/trudeaus-dystopian-online-harms-act-makes-margaret-atwood-and-george-orwell-look-like-amateurs/
(…or “Biden” for that matter…)
My best friend from HS had parents who were born in Ireland and came to the US in the 1950s. His comment was all the enterprising people and those looking for opportunity moved to the US. Hence, the miserable state of Ireland now. Probably the same in Scotland. Libs!
I had Scottish ancestors also (Campbell). I think large numbers of Scots and Scots-Irish came here in the eighteenth century. Maybe the ones who were clear-thinking and adventurous predominated?
Hence, the miserable state of Ireland now.
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Ireland is quite affluent. Culturally, it is gravely ill. That’s not from a deficit of enterprising people, but from a surfeit of silly people.