Posted on 08/10/2024 4:21:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
No one is safe from the Metropolitan Police, including American citizens in America.
George Orwell accurately predicted in 1984 what would happen when technology was combined with leftism. The only mistake he made was that he assumed it would happen forty years sooner than it finally did. I say that because Britain’s Labour government is embarking on a huge “hate” speech crackdown (2024’s version of “misinformation”), and Elon Musk, an American citizen in America, had better watch out. Indeed, according to the police commissioner, all Americans are in his crosshairs.
I support laws making it illegal to use speech to threaten people or incite specific violence. Thus, statements such as “I’m going to kill you” or “Let’s burn down this grocery store” have always been criminalized in America, even under the First Amendment. However, in America (at least for now), statements such as “I wish he were dead,” “He is an evil man,” or even “The people need to fight this madness” are free speech that the government cannot criminalize.
What we haven’t done in America (yet) is to criminalize what one might call “thoughtcrimes.” We’re on the way there, however, because we have “hate crimes.” Hate crime charges enhance criminal penalties if the wrongdoer had anti-minority or anti-LGBTQ+ thoughts when committing the underlying crime. Thus, in America, it’s worse to kill a person because he’s black or gay than it is merely to kill the person.
This thought crime standard doesn’t work in the other direction, of course. There’s no penalty enhancement for killing a person because he’s white or heterosexual. It’s the thoughtcrime of “racism” or “homophobia” that makes the murder not just bad but really bad.
The very idea of hate crimes is unconstitutional, to my way of thinking.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What should a population do when it’s own government has imported the head choppers and loosed them on the native population?
I would normally say that England needs to be taken down a notch, but really, what worse could anybody to to them that the English haven’t already done to themselves? They’re pitiful.
Reporter: I want to talk to you about that because we have seen some high-profile figures whipping up the hatred you talked about it in there with the officers, in fact, about this [the civil unrest] being added to by online commentary. I mean, I’m even thinking of the likes of Elon Musk getting involved. What are you considering when it comes to dealing with people who are whipping up this kind of behavior from behind a keyboard and maybe in a different country?
Police Commissioner: Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law. You can be guilty of offenses of, of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred. There are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the sort of publishing of material. All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals, just as we will physically confront on the streets, the thugs and the yobs who are taking, who are causing the problems for Community.
just waiting on that torch and pitchfork moment when the people turn on parliament when the people see that as their only option it will happen .... take note Washington
It sounds like suppression of speech under the color of law.
the policeman needs to be sued in the USA for suppression.
Let him argue jurisdiction
Come and take him you Limeys.
It does not matter if the murderer murdered because the victim was Black or because the victim wore purple shoes. Did they commit the act, yes or no? (Actus Reus) Did they have a guilty mind, yes or no? (mens rea). If so, then they are guilty - period, end of story.
Hey Mark Rowley....get your MUSLIMS under control. Its obvious many of them are quite hateful and have deliberately targeted White people in Britain. I’m posting from America. Come and get me......until then you will just have to pucker up and kiss my rosy red ass because there is not one GD thing you can do about it. And by the way, when you try, I will simply tell the court you lack in personem jurisdiction and you will be laughed out of court. Your laws do not apply in our country. Suck it.
Hate? What? Like standing on the steps of the SCOTUS saying, “You’ll pay for this”?
Question - is it possible for Musk to cut off his platform, “X”, for Gret Britain, for something like 24 hours?
Just to prove a point?
They have to eat English food. I don’t know how you could invent a a worse punishment than that.
Is there a Tip Line where I can report Maxine Waters and the View?
Or Henry VIII I’am. Offer with their heads! Sun never sets on the British Empire bullshit! Kaboom
When telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell, 1984
[[and Elon Musk, an American citizen in America, had better watch out. Indeed, according to the police commissioner, all Americans are in his crosshairs.]]
Wow! If that doesn’t sound like threats and hate speech, I dont know what does!
Suppressing Free Speech is a hate crime. This PM needs to be prosecuted in GITMO.
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