Cassie B. – Natural News March 29, 2024
In Scotland, a new hate crime law means that people will have to be a lot more careful about artistic expression and the things they say moving forward as police target podcasts, blog posts, social media posts and other expressions of opinion.
In a scary new development that sounds more like communist China than anything we would expect in a free country, police in Scotland have said that they will investigate every report they receive of content that can be considered hateful toward “protected characteristics.” This includes religion or perceived religious affiliation, disability, age, nationality, transgenderism, variations in sex characteristics and sexual orientation. After going through the complaint, they will carry out a “proportionate response.”
The law, which has been the subject of great controversy since its passage three years ago, will go into effect on April 1. Many are concerned about its lack of protection for freedom of speech.
A former fraud prosecutor has warned that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, who lives in Edinburgh, could find herself in hot water as previous posts she has made about gender will “most likely contravene the new law.” After he advised her to start deleting her posts, she replied: “If you genuinely imagine I’d delete posts calling a man a man, so as not to be prosecuted under this ludicrous law, stand by for the mother of all April Fools’ jokes.”
Police in Scotland have said that they will only be investigating new incidents that take place after the law goes into effect, which means retrospective action would not be taken against her or anyone else for previous posts. However, concerns that these types of comments will spur an investigation moving forward are well-founded. Rowling has said that she is not transphobic and believes people should live however they please, but she has been vocal about the dangers posed by allowing biological males into female-only spaces.
Scottish Nationalist MP Joanna Cherry KC has said she is certain the law “will be weaponised by trans rights activists to try to silence, and worse still, criminalise women who do not share their beliefs.” Cherry, who has been critical of the Scottish government’s gender policies, has suggested she believes that trans campaigners will use the new law to target Rowling.
Comedians, actors and people who share memes could face investigation
Even comedians and actors will be subject to scrutiny under the new law. In short, if somebody feels offended by what someone else says and reports them, they could face legal action. Critics of the law contend that it essentially equates harmless jokes and memes with more serious acts like revenge porn. One of the law’s provisions explicitly states that people can be prosecuted for “displaying, publishing or distributing the material” on social platforms, blogs, podcasts, sites and signs. This applies whether it is done directly or indirectly. It means that “forwarding or repeating” content that originates from a third party, such as reposting content on social media, also falls under the purview of the law.
As if this weren’t bad enough, the law doesn’t apply only to newspaper articles and blog posts; it actually extends to cover the things that people say everywhere, including in their own homes. This means that, at least theoretically, children will be able to report their parents for making comments that offend them. In addition, people will be able to inform on one another anonymously using third-party reporting centers.
People who are accused of hate speech will be investigated by Scottish police, who are expecting this to create a significant amount of additional work at a time when they are already overwhelmed dealing with more pressing issues. For those whose comments are ultimately judged not to be criminal in nature, they will still have a non-crime hate incident on their record.
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Everyone report everyone for the slightest thing.
Tie the whole frigging nonsense sytem up in its own pointlessness.
so speaking about the crimes of israel isa bigger crime than what they are actually doing ?
madness
My thoughts on this Easter morning are with the Scots who are determined to resist. God be with you. Don’t let these (literal) buggers win.
And I hope all of us have the strength to do the same, wherever we are. Because this idiocy is coming everywhere. Like the man said, “We hang together or we hang separately.”
…”And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed”.. (& criminalised).
2 Peter 2;2
Common-sense Scots could inundate the police with “hate claims”, from conceited immigrants’ rants, transgender madness, Jewish supremacy, government statements, etc.
“This law offends me”
The police might not respond, but the burden of work this could cause might make them think again.
So this site is available in Scotland. Do I have to be in Scotland for an offence to be committed? Can I just say in a comment that I’m posting this from Scotland?
Seriously, the best thing to do, is cause as much offence as is sheepishly possible.
Liars, of course–any amount of offensive talk against White people as such will be permitted and encouraged
It’s a dangerous hatecrime law for sites speaking out .. I wish Rixon/Truthseeker all the wisdom to do the job, I guess the recent message on the site was connected ..
A law like this which is loosely drafted will end up with absurd claims chasing it up its own rectum. I don’t like scotch, it makes me moody. But maybe some clown will think I’ve just hated on the whole nation?
Note that this piece of legalese doggerel goes into ‘effect’ on April 1st… which is both apt and expected when one is dealing with clowns…
of course clowns are to be laughed at..long and heartily…
the prisons cannot hold all those masses .
so the judgeprostitutes will hand out
financial fines . plenty new income for
the state to finance more parasite invaders .
all who voted for those “lawquakers” are guilty
to strangle their own freedom rights . NEVER VOTE !
BE PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE against state !
This is going to cost a massive amount of money to uphold this law, which in itself isdiscriminating , it is also direct controvial of the EHRC, laws of privacy and discrimination . Scotland should be prepared for some very heavy levels of compensation arising from law suits.
Men cannot have children. Sorry guys,,, that is not hate, it is biological truth. I guess cross dressing women can give birth but they are not men no matter how much they cuss, no matter how big the towell is stuffed in their levi’s to simulate a penis.
These last two generations have got to be the dumbest ever to grace this planet. Again, not hate, but truth.
“After going through the complaint, they will carry out a ‘proportionate response.'” … The correct and suitable “proportionate response” would be to laugh the complainant out of the room, of course, if not have them horse-whipped and neutered.
“Do I have to be in Scotland for an offence to be committed?”
Apparently not, Carl. The Scottish Constabulary, however, wouldn’t dare intrude on the jurisdiction of English constabularies. It would immediately excite a legal controversy.
What they might do, however, is keep tabs on persons, hailing from other parts of the UK, (or indeed from anywhere in the world, such is the Act’s overreach) whom the criminal prosecution service in Scotland deem to have breached this novel and kinky law – and arrest them – if they ever enter into the jurisdiction of Scotland.
There’s only a few hours to go till midnight and the start of April 1st 2024, so I guess that it’s probably better to get it off my chest now. I don’t like poofters, transgender types, imbecilic Just Stop Oil campaigners, woke fashionistas nor war-mongering hypocrites. I don’t like my country being invaded by ulterior purposed immigrants. I can’t stand jews and islamists.
Phew! That feels better and it’s all beyond the reach of statute, until tomorrow.
A govt doesn’t need to have money before it spends it. It simply borrows from the IMF, where creating money is as easy as typing some numbers into a computer. Paying it back doesn’t matter: look at the US, which has borrowed trillions more than it can ever pay back, yet keeps borrowing more.
The new law will be handy for prosecuting and persecuting whomever the govt has chosen, like with Trump and the J6ers in the US. I agree with Carl: cause as much offense as sheepishly possible. And always immediately accuse whomever accused you. Have a few accusations ready should the occasion arise. Stuff those jail cells.
And remember the Bastille.
@ Andy…
Oh no…why do you think they created unsocial media?..
..they are already sifting through and attempting to prosecute people on what was written on face plant and twatter years before any of this legalese drivel was adopted..which incidentally doesn’t sound very ‘legal’…
..not by you of course but by statist parliamentary humpbacks..at least that’s the story, and it’s a pretty shit one too… to frighten the muggles and drive them into self censorship sat in their hovels eating bugwheat…waiting for a knock on the door… from some porky cuntstubble…
And the imbeciles in the Canuck junta have actually gone over the edge with it all and are trying to implement pre-crime (and actually will)..yes they can predict what you are going to say and do, just like they can predict the weather and non existent pandemics and for the same reason that you can’t stop the state euthanising mentally ill fools who happen to be family members..because it would harm them..
yup..
Of course when things have degraded this far..one can only represent oneself in the monkey court when inevitable prosecution falls in your lap..guilty.. for telling jokes and having fun…
.. and prepare for the worst which is also inevitable.. by taking a large and well hidden tungsten rasp file into court with you for the once again inevitable trip to prison after the monkey court becomes a kangeroo court and reaches the already decided upon verdict… and before they hang you…
alternatively get a boat and become a Pirate…Pirate broadcaster that is…
In other words, keep your head down, eyes to the pavement, and your mouth zipped !
Welcome to the Jewish World Prison.
Most of the above letters assume Scots/Brits will take an interest in being politically active, they simply couldn’t GAF, football, porn, beer, TV etc
And anyway if whites complain as you above suggest, the complaints will be ignored, if dinge complain whites will go to jail.
There is no way out of this due to cowardly brits.
I couldn’t agree with you more, Chesterton. I have always approached the internet with the understanding that it would, inevitably, end up as an instrument of State control. I’ve never had a social media account precisely because of the obvious vulnerability it brings.
I must confess that I contribute occasionally to the Caroline Munro fan club on line but I’m fairly confident that government won’t find cause to criminalize an ageing man’s fond memories. I’ve met Caroline and she’s wonderful.
By the way – Gong and Nirvana – in the same post! I’m impressed.
“Alpha, beta, gamma, hubba-dubba…”
@ Andy ..
Crikey..you have excellent taste in pneumatic scream queens..she’s got some front that lass…indeed she has..
and a wonderful mind…of course..
..of course I wouldn’t mind either…..
and talking of birds well spotted..Fish Rising being Hillage’s magnum Opus full of lovely liquid Hermetic Arcana… although I believe Green was more popular… which is a shame..and so’s the title..
Oh and Alan Holdsworth’s sojourn with Gong on ‘Sand’ was transcendental..If I remeber correctly he used the synthaxe and DX7 combo.. many little pluckers ended their little lives soon after…
Great stuff..
More than anyone else at this website, Chesterton, you can make me guffaw, in the most regrettably undignified of ways, (with dribble escaping from my mouth.)
Your 1st paragraph at 10.09 pm split me in two. In a “body-positive” sense, of course.
The first time that I met Caroline Munro was during the hottest of hot summers in 1977, when I was ten years old. The Spy Who Loved Me roadshow was in town, with jet-ski stunt riders performing at the beach; the Lotus Esprit on show for kids to clamber into and best of all, the movie star, Caroline Munro was there.
My friend, Stuart and I pestered her all day, asking her the silliest of questions. We were a couple of ragamuffin street urchins with snotty noses. She was so kind, loving and patient with us. She bought us ice-creams and drinks.
At one point, I asked Caroline a question that seemed to delight her –
“Why weren’t you the goodie in the film? Why were you the baddie? I think you’re nicer than the goodie girl with James Bond.”
She laughed heartily and grabbed me in a cuddle, pressing my head right into her bosom. A photographer caught the moment and the following week, my picture with Caroline Munro was on the front page of the local newspaper.
I wasn’t very much interested in bosoms in those days and I look a little bewildered in the photo but I feel incredibly honoured to have been snuggled against Caroline Munro’s chest. What a genuinely lovely woman she is.