Posted on 09/12/2022 2:21:47 PM PDT by DFG
We’ve seen things going down a very dangerous road in places like the U.K. when it comes to restrictions on free speech.
As we previously reported, British police have even arrested people for a meme posted on social media because it caused someone “anxiety.”
But if that wasn’t bad enough, here are South Wales Police allegedly telling James Harvey, a citizen journalist, that he should take down a post in which he used the term “illegal” and “undocumented alien” in a video because if someone sees it and takes offense, he could be pursued for a “hate crime.”
How insane is that and what are you supposed to call illegal aliens? That’s a legal term. Just using the term “illegal” or “alien” is now “bad” in the U.K. This is, of course, chilling speech — making people conform to what the government wants you to say and speak so they wouldn’t say the “bad things” because they’ll be too afraid to.
Can we get more Orwellian than this?
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
There isnt one, this is woke senior police officers overstepping their boundaries. In England, the Tories have stepped in on occasion and reined in overnight police officers trying to intimidate over “hate incidents” but Wales is devolved and governed by Labour, so they’ve got free rein to illegally enforce wokery like it is the law of the land.
So they act like the Federal Bureau of Intimidation in our country.
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